Albums of the Year: 2006

[VittraEternity]

Who gives a fuck about how many songs you have? Thanks to you fuckers no cds are getting sold! It's also not about quantity, it's about quality.

I download quite a bit, and a result I actually buy more cds because I am greatly more aware of what music is out there.

 

[Killbot]

Cursive are really fucking great. One of the few Saddle Creek bands that actually are good. Two Gallants being another one.

Two Gallants are excellent, but I find Cursive extremely boring. Also, not all Saddle Creek is bad, Beep Beep are decent enough and I enjoy a fair bit of Son, Ambulance.

 

[Fractal_Mortality]

Two Gallants are excellent, but I find Cursive extremely boring.

Ugly Organ > Every other release by any Saddle Creek band and most bands in general.

 

[Mort Divine]

Ugly Organ > Every other release by any Saddle Creek band and most bands in general.

I agree with the first part, but the second part not so much.

 

[Demilich]

I stand by Bright Eyes 100% and whether or not they're on Saddle Creek, Connor is involved in the label isn't he?

They have a few great albums!

 

[Mort Divine]

Yeah, Bright Eyes is on Saddle Creek. I like some of BE's material but some of it I don't, kind of hit and miss.

 

[Alex78]

Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Beyond Twilight - For the love of art and the making
Prototype - Continuum
Hammers of Misfortune - The locust years

 

[Personified Hatred]

Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive

 

[bolivar]

LENGSEL : THE KISS - THE HOPE! definitely the best album this year....

 

[Demilich]

Yeah, Bright Eyes is on Saddle Creek. I like some of BE's material but some of it I don't, kind of hit and miss.

I'm curious, which material don't you like?

My particular favourites are probably "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn" and "Lifted...", with "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" being one of my least favourites.

 

[Mort Divine]

I'm curious, which material don't you like?

My particular favourites are probably "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn" and "Lifted...", with "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" being one of my least favourites.

I like "Lifted..." and "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" but anything before "Lifted" I really don't care for.

 

[Wires & Waves]

tilly and the wall, rilo kiley's 2nd album are good saddle creek shtiz...

 

[Mort Divine]

I've not heard Tilly (which will certainly be resolved ), but I do like Rilo Kiley a good bit, didn't know they were ever on Saddle Creek tbqh.

 

[LivingCadaver]

my top ten:

1- Unexpect - in a flesh aquarium
2- Mastodon - Blood Mountain
3- Amon Amarth - With odens on our side
4- Arsis - united in regret
5- Isis - in the absence of truth
6- Celtic Frost - Monotheist
7- 7th Nemesis - Violentia imperatrix mundi
8- Vader - Impressions in blood
9- Asunder - works will come undone
10- ???

there's so many albums I have yet to hear or relisten to and so little time...

*edit aw I'll give 10th spot to Birdflesh - Mongo Musical cause this band fucking rules.

 

[Fractal_Mortality]

I agree with the first part, but the second part not so much.

I'm not the biggest fan of Cursive the band (their catalogue is hit or miss with me), but that album is definitely one of the best I've ever heard.

 

[Aeuphorias]

1. Drudkh - Blood in our Wells
2. Negura Bunget - Om
3. Doom:VS - Aeturnus Vale
4. Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
5. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
6. Summoning - Oath Bound
7. Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
8. Melechesh - Emmissaries
9. Martyr - Feeding the Abscess
10. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

 

[hibernal_dream]

1. Summoning - Oath Bound
2. Negura Bunget - OM
3. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
4. Drudkh - Blood in our Wells
5. Agalloch - Ashes against the Grain
6. Hammers of Misfortune - Locust Years
7. Sorcier Des Glaces - Moonrise in total Darkness
8. Dismember - God that Never Was
9. Solitude Aeternus - Alone
10. Isis - Absence of Truth

Really had to struggle to come up with 10. Crap year for metal

 

[Nico]

2. Negura Bunget - OM
3. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
4. Drudkh - Blood in our Wells
5. Agalloch - Ashes against the Grain

Crap year for metal

The first part is contrary to the second part.

 

[hibernal_dream]

Why? They're good albums, but nowhere near as good as they should be. That's my point - if that's the best the year has to offer, it wasn't a very good year.

 

[Mort Divine]

Why? They're good albums, but nowhere near as good as they should be. That's my point - if that's the best the year has to offer, it wasn't a very good year.

It was a fantastic year, you just seem to have impossibly high standards.