Quo Vadis are from Canada and are a technical death/melodic death band, and can be pretty thrashy in some parts. But are quite original in what they do and are better that a lot of bands doin the swedish death thing....
I have the album "Day into night", some of the standout songs on it i suggest you checkin out:
"Absolution"
"Cadences of absonance"
"On the shores of ithaka"(also being one of my fav death metal songs ever, and one of their more brutal songs)
I suggest anyone remotely into melodic death stuff to definately check this band out...
...Now where's my beer?...
Cheers,
Hope it helps!