Best of '06 CDs.

[xshadowsoulsx]

Ok, so post your favorite cds of 2006 here. There's no limit on how many. Ill figure out a way to make a "Best of '06" list at the end.

Im working on my list right now.

 

[xshadowsoulsx]

Here is Braveword's top 66 list.

Brave Picks 2006 - Top 66 Countdown

66) GOATWHORE - A Haunting Curse (Metal Blade)
65) DECAPITATED - Organic Hallucinosis (Earache)
64) DIRTY RIG – Rock Did It (Escapi)
63) GLENN HUGHES – Music For The Divine (Frontiers)
62) HERESI – Psalm II: Infusco Ignis (Total Holocaust/Hydra Head)
61) DEADBOY AND THE ELEPHANT MEN – We Are Night Sky (Fat Possum)
60) STRAPPING YOUNG LAD – The New Black (Century Media)'
59) EVERGREY – Monday Morning Apocalypse (InsideOut)
58) ANTAEUS – Blood Libels (Norma Evangelia Diaboli)
57) NEGLECTED FIELDS – Splenetic (Aghast)
56) CHEAP TRICK – Rockford (Big 3)
55) VENOM - Metal Black (Sanctuary)
54) MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP – Tales Of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Armageddon Music)
53) FIREWIND - Allegiance (Century Media)
52) WEDNESDAY 13 - Fang Bang (Rykodisc)
51) MISERY INDEX - Discordia (Relapse)
50) ANGEL BLAKE – Angel Blake (Metal Blade)
49) KEEP OF KALESSIN – Armada (Tabu)
48) ASUNDER – Works Will Come Undone (Profound Lore)
47) DISSECTION - Reinkaos (The End)
46) JON OLIVA’S PAIN – Maniacal Renderings (AFM)
45) CATHEDRAL - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights (Nuclear Blast)
44) MY DYING BRIDE – A Line Of Deathless Kings (Peaceville)
43) ISIS – In The Absence Of Truth (Ipecac)
42) KATAKLYSM – In The Arms Of Devastation (Nuclear Blast)
41) THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND – Synchestra (InsideOut)
40) NACHTMYSTIUM – Instinctecay (Battle Kommand)
39) BLACK STONE CHERRY - Black Stone Cherry (Roadrunner)
38) MELIAH RAGE - The Deep And Dreamless Sleep (Screaming Ferret)
37) KORPIKLAANI – Tales Along This Road (Napalm)
36) BEYOND FEAR – Beyond Fear (SPV)
35) EIDOLON – The Parallel Otherworld (Escapi)
34) FALCONER – Northwind (Metal Blade)
33) STONE SOUR – Come What(ever) May (Roadrunner)
32) CRADLE OF FILTH – Thornography (Roadrunner)
31) KATATONIA – The Great Cold Distance (Peaceville)
30) BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - Shot To Hell (Roadrunner)
29) GRAVE - As Rapture Comes (Century Media)
28) WITCHERY – Don’t Fear The Reaper (Century Media)
27) AMORPHIS – Eclipse (Nuclear Blast)
26) IHSAHN – The Adversary (Candlelight)
25) INSOMNIUM – Above The Weeping World (Candlelight)
24) ANGTORIA – God Has A Plan For Us All (Listenable)
23) CELTIC FROST – Monotheist (Century Media)
22) AGALLOCH – Ashes Against The Grain (The End)
21) LAMB OF GOD – Sacrament (Epic)
20) OSI – Free (InsideOut)
19) JORN – The Duke (AFM)
18) CANNIBAL CORPSE - Kill (Metal Blade)
17) INTO ETERNITY – The Scattering Of Ashes (Century Media)
16) DISMEMBER – The God That Never Was (Regain)
15) AMON AMARTH – With Oden On Our Side (Metal Blade)
14) CONVERGE – No Heroes (Epitaph)
13) HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – The Locust Years (Cruz Del Sur)
12) MASTODON – Blood Mountain (Relapse/Warner)
11) BLIND GUARDIAN – A Twist In The Myth (Nuclear Blast)
10) IRON MAIDEN – A Matter Of Life And Death (EMI)
9) NAPALM DEATH - Smear Campaign (Century Media)
8) MOTORHEAD – Kiss Of Death (Sanctuary)
7) ENSLAVED – Ruun (Tabu)
6) SATYRICON – Now, Diabolical (Century Media)
5) DEICIDE - The Stench Of Redemption (Earache)
4) WOLF – The Black Flame (Prosthetic)
3) I – Between Two Worlds (Nuclear Blast)
2) SLAYER – Christ Illusion (Warner)
1) VOIVOD – Katorz (The End)

 

[Perpetual Catatonia]

I'll work on my list later, but I have a proposition as to how to give points.

The more you like it, the less points it gets. This way someone can have 5 albums, while others have 66. Then beside it, we could have the number of votes in paranthesis and a percentage based on votes to points. (Divide the number of votes by the number of points.)

Example:

John's list:
1. Wyrd - The Ghost Album
2. Frightmare - Bringing Back the Bloodshed

Steve's list:
1. Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Before the Bleeding Sun
2. Forest of Fog - Abgrunde

Robert's list:
1. Wyrd - The Ghost Album
2. Forest of Fog - Abgrunde

The points would go like this...

Wyrd - The Ghost Album - 2 (2) 100%
Frightmare - Bringing Back the Bloodshed - 2 (1) 50%
Forest of Fog - Abgrunde - 4 (2) 50%
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Before the Bleeding Sun - 1 (1) 100%

Anyone else think this would be good?

 

[xshadowsoulsx]

I think I understand it, but how could we say get a final list from it? The only idea I've had so far is that just assign points per rating, like the lowest number of points could decide the winner (like 1st place gets 1 point, 2nd gets 2, etc.) But the only problem with that could be that a few people could put a cd at number 1, while a different person could put it at say 20, and it could really mess up the final ranking. Unless you have say like 1st place gets 20 points and it slowly goes down the higher it goes, but that would mean there would have to be a 20 cd limit. Any thoughts on any of those?

 

[Nevernity]

I'm just gonna give my top 5 albums, have fun with calculating points or whatever the hell you're doing haha

1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2. Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
3. Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
4. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
5. Persefone - Core

 

[xshadowsoulsx]

We'll figure something out

 

[Nevernity]

How about "Borda Count" or for those who don't know what that is i'll explain:
say there's 5 all together.. 1st place 5 points, 2nd place 4 points, etc.
easy enough?

i know a shit load of voting methods, but that means i might have to dig up some old math papers.

 

[Perpetual Catatonia]

like the lowest number of points could decide the winner

That's the basic concept of my idea. But like you said, outliers would really mess things up.

 

[xshadowsoulsx]

How about "Borda Count" or for those who don't know what that is i'll explain:
say there's 5 all together.. 1st place 5 points, 2nd place 4 points, etc.
easy enough?

i know a shit load of voting methods, but that means i might have to dig up some old math papers.

I kinda like this way, its pretty much the same thing I had. Like have a limit of like 10 or 15 cds, and have number 1 be 10 or 15 points, and have it decrease with every place it drops. But what would be the limit?

 

[AlphaTemplar]

1. Amorphis - Eclipse
2. I - Between Two Worlds
3. Isis - In The Abscence Of Truth
4. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
5. Giant Squid - Metridium Fields
6. Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
7. Voivod - Katorz
8. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Sides
9. Beyond Twilight - For The Love of Art and Making
10. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain.

 

[ArneZ]

The albums i bought in 2006:

Kalmah - The Black Waltz
Disarmonia Mundi - Mind Tricks
Norther - Till Death Unites Us
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
Noumena - Anatomy Of Life
Mygrain - Orbit Dance
Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
Bal-Sagoth - The Cthonic Chronicles
Raunchy - Death Pop Romance
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Deathstars - Terminal Bliss
In Flames - Come Clarity
Amon Amarth - With Oden By Our Side
Dark Lunacy - The Diarist
Cradle Of Filth - Thornography
Amorphis - Eclipse
Shallow Water Grave - Suspension Of Disbelief - EP
Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
One Man Army & The Undead Quartet - 21st Century Killing Machine
Rage - Speak Of The Dead
Trivium - Crusade
Vanden Plas - Christ 0
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Before The Bleeding Sun
From Exile - Crushing Reality
Breed 77 - In My Blood
Before the Dawn - The Ghost
All Shall Perish - The Price of Existence
Bleeding Through - The Truth
Yyrkoon - Unhealthy Opera
Time Requiem - Optical Illusion
Kataklysm - In the Arms of Devastation
Caliban - The Undying Darkness
Tool - 10,000 Days
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside the Flames
Dark Lunacy - The Diarist
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Anata - The Conductor's Departure
Burn in Silence - Angel Maker
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
American Heritage - Millenarian
Antonamasia - Keeping Nothing - EP
Exit Ten - This World They'll Drown - EP
Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings
I - Between Two Worlds
Sahg - Sahg 1
Vader - Impressions in Blood
Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road
Ihsahn - The Adversary
SikTh - Death of A Dead Day
Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
Enslaved - Ruun
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
Zyklon - Disintegrate
Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
Sodom - Sodom
Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Everlost - Noise Factory
Torchbearer - Warnaments
Cannibal Corpse - Kill

 

[xshadowsoulsx]

Now put those in a top ten list or something like that, or a top-whatever list.

 

[ArneZ]

1.Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
2.Kalmah - The Black Waltz
3.Disarmonia Mundi - Mind Tricks
4.All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
5.Mastodon - Blood Mountain
6.Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
7.Keep of Kalessin - Armada
8.Before the Dawn - The Ghost
9.Deathstars - Terminal Bliss
10.Mercenary - The Hours That Remain

Something like that =)

 

[xshadowsoulsx]

Alright, I think I got mine down. It was a hard choice though.

1.Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Before The Bleeding Sun
2.Heavenly - Virus
3.Kalmah - The Black Waltz
4.Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
5.Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth
6.Disarmonia Mundi - Mind Tricks
7.Arsis - United In Regret
8.Dream Evil - United
9.Dissection - Reinkaos
10.Slayer - Christ Illusion

 

[Grevén]

Always difficult... but here we go:

1.Keep of Kalessin - Armada
2.Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness
3.Melechesh - Emissaries
4.Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
5.Bal Sagoth - The Chthonic Chronicles
6.Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
7.Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
8.Death Breath - Stinking up the Night
9.Mastodon - Blood Mountain
10.Negura Bunget - Om


Close but no cigar:

Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Anata - The Conductors Departure
Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
Tool - 10 000 Days
Ancient Rites - Rvbicon
Spawn of Possession - Noctambulant
Andromeda - Chimera
Psycroptic - Symbols of Failure
Amorphis - Eclipse

 

[Gadlor]

Sweet tits, 2006 was a good year.

1. Amorphis - Eclipse
2. Bal-Sagoth - The Cthonic Chronicles
3. Solefald - Black For Death
4. Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
5. Andrew W.K. - Close Calls With Brick Walls
6. Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
7. Beyond Twilight - For The Love of Art and the Making
8. Andromeda - Chimaira
9. Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth
10. Horse The Band - Pizza

these are in no way in the proper order. i just can't fucking do that. argh.
still, an awesome year, and i'm still trying to catch up on listening to some of the things in the interesting cds thread

 

[Abrasive-X]

etos sure made a nice come back, i like the albulm they released last year... 2006 wasnt so good as far as new albulms being released imo

 

[The Don]

K here goes:
1. Kalmah - The Black Waltz
2. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
3. Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
4. Disarmonia Mundi - Mindtricks
5. Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Before the Bleeding Sun
6. Norther - Till Death Unites Us
7. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
8. Illnath - Second Skin of Harlequin
9. Catamenia - Location:COLD
10. Edguy - Rocket Ride

 

[Richter]

1 - Unleashed - Midvinterblot
2 - Anata - The conductor's departure
3 - Sinister - Afterburner
4 - Cannibal Corpse - Kill
5 - TOOH - Order and Punishment
6 - Grave - As rapture comes
7 - Mastodon - Blood mountain
8 - Panzerchrist – Battalion beast
9 - Obscenity - Where sinners bleed
10 - Spawn of possession - Noctambulant

Also mentions to:
first half of Suffocation - Suffocation
Slayer - Christ illusion
Akercocke - words...
general surgery

still to hear:

Arsis - United in regret
etc..

and no I didn't put any of my own releases in
but please do check them out!!

www.myspace.com/sordidofficial
www.myspace.com/canopy

 

[rainmaker_2413]

Kinda surprised not to see Vanden Plas 'Christ 0' nowhere in Brave Words list. That album would definantly be in my top 5. I'm working on a top ten list so I will try to post it later.