Albums of the Year: 2006

[Skepticism]

You want to see the shittiest list ever? I can't beleive someone would actually call this list metal besides a couple bands, nonetheless, this list is beyond shit, Top 20 Albums of 2006! - jsimms52's Journal – Last.fm

 

[Wires & Waves]

guy on internet has bad taste in music more at 11

 

[VittraEternity]

You want to see the shittiest list ever? I can't beleive someone would actually call this list metal besides a couple bands, nonetheless, this list is beyond shit, Top 20 Albums of 2006! - jsimms52's Journal – Last.fm

Torture Killer & Illdisposed are alright death metal, and God Dethroned I think is pretty good....but as a diehard fan of Cradle of Filth (well, used to be)...I cringe any time anyone says Thornography is anything more than mediocre - that album is worthless. And yes the rest of that list is pure shite.

 

[Mythos Inibri]

VOIVOD-Katorz
Celtic Frost-Monotheist
Darkthrone-The Cult Is Alive
The Slayer album was o.k.
sunnO)))&Boris-Altar is hard to get into but it's o.k. too

 

[Zephyrus]

'07's going to be a killer year, I can just feel it.

 

[Cancer of the Soul]

1: Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
2: Deicide - The Stench Of Redemption
3: Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
4: Unleashed - Midvinterblot
5: Slayer - Christ Illusion
6: Deceased - As The Weird Travel On
7: Ihsahn - Adversary
8: Dismember - The God That Never Was
9: Anata - The Conductor's Departure
10: Dissection - Reinkaos

 

[naboo]

Summoning - Oath Bound
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

Those two were my favorites.

 

[Mort Divine]

'07's going to be a killer year, I can just feel it.

'07 has next to nothing going for it, that I know of.

 

[Killbot]

Except it does.

 

[Mort Divine]

New Rufus Wainwright and The Fall of Troy, but I can't think of much else. Maybe that second Mirrorthrone album that was supposed to come out in '06 will be released.

 

[Sepsis]

Best of:
To-Mera - Transcendental
Thy Disease - Rat Age [Sworn Kinds Final Verses]
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Aborym - Generator
Ensoph - Project X-Katon
Royal Anguish - A Journey Through the Shadows of Time

 

[VittraEternity]

Still working on my top 50 (out of 350+) but my top 5 most likely consists of:

1. Dornenreich - Durch Den Traum (Austria, 'Dark Metal')
2. Anti - The Insignificance of Life (Germany, Black Metal)
3. Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea (Germany, Funeral Doom)
4. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (United States, Doom-ish Metal)
5. Sombre Chemin - Notre Héritage Ancestral (France, Black Metal) ...possibly...

(updated list of other favourites)
Antaeus - Blood Libels
Peste Noire - La Sanie des Siècles - Panégyrique De La Dégénerescence
Stielas Storhett - Vandrer...
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Ihsahn - The Adversary
Sarkom - Aggravation of Mind
Moonspell - Memorial
Monarch - Speak of the Sea
Secrets of the Moon - Antithesis
Negurã Bunget - Om
Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam

(these will likely make my top 50)
Chrome Division - Doomsday Rock ‘N Roll
Enslaved - Ruun
Funeral - From These Wounds
Khors - Cold
Kampfar - Kvass
Koldbrann - Moribund
Ljå - Til Avsky For Livet
Sykdom - Under Krigen
Belenos - Chants de Bataille
Eternal Majesty - Wounds of Hatred and Slavery
Merrimack - Of Entropy and Life Denial
Dark Fortress - Séance
My Darkest Hate - Combat Area
Ajattara - Äpäre
Torturium - Black Lunatic Chaos
Blutshcrei - The Voice of Forbidden Pride
Panzerchrist - Battalion Beast
Nortt - Ligfærd
Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die
Belphegor - Pestapokalypse VI
One Man Army - 21st Century Killing Machine
Profundi - The Omega Rising
Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
IAMX - The Alternative
Tool - 10 000 Days
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
Inferno - Nikdy Nepokřtěni

...more to add and change...probably missing some...list will only include full-length albums.

 

[Zephyrus]

Now that I've given it more time, I'm officially declaring my top album for '06 to be Aborym - Generator. This stuff is pure pwnage.

 

[~Neurotica]

True, the album is great.

 

[Nico]

Very little love for the latest Ohtar, huh?

 

[Hatebreeder]

Alright, a decision has been reached. My top 5 albums of 2006 are:

1. Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth
2. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
3. Bal-Sagoth - The Chthonic Chronicles
4. Dissection - Reinkaos (surprise! )
5. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

Honorable Mentions:

My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
Draconian - The Burning Halo
Vader - Impressions of Blood

 

[VittraEternity]

Now that I've given it more time, I'm officially declaring my top album for '06 to be Aborym - Generator. This stuff is pure pwnage.

I thought that was fairly good but nothing great. I guess the style is unique in a sense, but for the same reason I didn't like it so much. Almost chaotically symphonic in structure

Very little love for the latest Ohtar, huh?

In my opinion it was decent. It has some good moments but I don't care much for it, meh...

 

[staffino]

No love for Goatwhore--A Haunting Curse??

I'm listening to it right now and it's pretty fuckin' brilliant!

 

[Death Aflame]

Gloria is my undisputed album of the year. It is quite an ironic choice too as I am more of an oldschool swedeath and black metal fan and this album represents in many ways those commercial indulgences. That being said, I find something completely honest, bold, cinematic and truly progressive with this release that other albums like Agalloch's Ashes Against the Grain or other highly praised 06 releases failed to deliver.

In terms of other releases, Jesu's Silver and Amesoeurs' Ruines Humaines were also of high quality.

 

[Death Aflame]

No love for Goatwhore--A Haunting Curse??

I'm listening to it right now and it's pretty fuckin' brilliant!

I haven't heard it yet but I found there previous 2 releases quite lukewarm.