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The Montreal-based instrumental rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor released several albums between 1997 and 2002 that not only received considerable praise from audiences, but also changed the idea of what protest music is and what punk rock is.
The large-scale chamber rock music compositions with their sense of gigantic power became anthems of resistance, or at least a distraction from contemporary capitalism and the features it was drawing on the world.