Woods of Ypres were a Juno-winning blackened doom metal band from Ontario, Canada.
Woods of Ypres was formed in 2002 by David Gold, Aaron Palmer, and Brian McManus.

The trio released the first Woods Of Ypres demo, Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat, the same year, later expanding to a quintet for 2003 concerts. That December, David Gold moved to Toronto to begin working on a full-length album. In 2004, the band's first full-length album, Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth, was released on David Gold's record label, Krankenhaus Records.