Best of 2006 so far

[Hypnos]

1. Katatonia 'TGCD' & Madder Mortem 'Desiderata'
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2. Agalloch 'Ashes Against The Grain'
3. Enslaved 'Ruun'
4. Dolorian 'Voidwards'
5. Saturnus 'Veronika Decides To Die'
6. Amorphis 'Eclipse'
7. Celtic Frost 'Monotheist'
8. Orplid 'Sterbender Satyr'
9. Necrophobic 'Hrimthursum'
10. Communic 'Waves Of Visual Decay'

 

[Dark_Karma]

They're Irish I think. Eyes Open was pretty good though.

Nearly, they're Scottish

 

[Liquid Diamonds]

Snow patrol as in the New Zealand band?

Their singer, Gary Lightbody, is Irish (Northern Irish I think). I'm not sure exactly where the rest of them are from, but they met at Dundee University, that I know for sure. So it would stand to reason that at least some of them are Scottish.

 

[Shapeless)))]

Right now these are my favourites of this year.

1. Tenhi - Maaäet
2. Tool - 10,000 days
3. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
4. Stam1na - Uudet Kymmenen Käskyä
5. Mokoma - Kuoleman Laulukunnaat
6. Enslaved - Ruun
7. Paatos - Silence of Another Kind
8. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
9. Cannibal Corpse - Kill
10. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Haven't heard it yet I expect it to be awesome.)

 

[kendoji]

10. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Haven't heard it yet I expect it to be awesome.)

 

[Risquit]

Revised:

1. Katatonia--The Great Cold Distance
2. Burst--Origo
3. Joanna Newsom--Ys
4. Enslaved--Ruun
5. The Killers--Sam's Town
6. Negura Bunget--Om
7. Scott Walker--The Drift
8. Celtic Frost--Monotheist
9. Broken Foundation--s/t (ex. Psychotic Waltz drummer and guitarist)
10. Twilight Singers--Powder Burns

 

[Hypnos]

this year is phantastic:

1. Katatonia 'TGCD' + Madder Mortem 'Desiderata'
2. Negura Bunget 'OM'
3. Agalloch 'Ashes Against The Grain'
4. Wuthering Heights 'The Shadow Cabinet'
5. Enslaved 'Ruun'
6. Secrets Of The Moon 'Antithesis'
7. Solitude Aeturnus 'Alone'
8. The Provenance 'Red Flags'
9. My Dying Bride 'A Line Of Deathless Kings'
10. Dolorian - Voidwards
+ many more

 

[Don Corleone]

hmmm lets see

muse
thom yorke
enslaved
placebo

errrr, thats all really.

i wouldnt put 10,000 days on that list. it's definitely a step down after lateralus.

 

[i aint play this]

3. Joanna Newsom--Ys

Highly awesome album ttytt

 

[in_absentia]

And the winner is....

ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW- BEFORE THE BLEEDING SUN

 

[opeth_353]

1.Cult Of Luna
2.Isis
3.Agalloch
4.Enslaved
5.Scott Walker
6.Muse
7.Thom Yorke
8.Ihsahn
9.Negura Bunget
10.Drudkh

 

[Heckelgruber]

Nobody mentioned DTB - Synchestra (in this thread at any rate). My first CD of 2006 and still one of my favourites. I had really high hopes for 10k days but felt disappointed by it. The Enslaved and TMV were very good.

 

[Alex78]

Synchestra is my favourite album this year! Didn't like it at first, but now I love it (great albums are meant to be this way, right?)

 

[Hypnos]

1.Cult Of Luna
2.Isis
3.Muse
4.Agalloch
5.Enslaved
6.Scott Walker
7.Thom Yorke
8.Negura Bunget
9.Placebo
10.Madder Mortem (hardly liked the album, quite shit to be honest.. hence it's at 10)

putting the words 'Madder Mortem' and shit in one sentence is a blasphemy...

 

[Hubster]

I've pretty much narrowed it down to 2 albums I think.

- Enslaved: Ruun
- Negură Bunget: OM

They tie for best of 2006 for me.

 

[Sadguru]

1. Diadem of 12 Stars (Wolves in the Throne Room)

2. Un mondo in me (Neronoia)

3. Ashes Against the Grain (Agalloch)

4. Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun (Red Sparowes)

5. Maaäet (Tenhi)

6. Blood in Our Wells (Drudkh)

7. Somewhere Along the Highway (Cult of Luna)

8. You Are There (Mono [JPN])

9. The Great Cold Distance (Katatonia)

10. 10,000 Days (Tool)

 

[Detric]

melechesh - emissaries

 

[narcoleptic haze]

Not nessisarily the "best of", but certainly some favourites of mine were/are: (in no particular order)

Woven Hand - Mosaic
Uzva - Uoma
Espers - II
Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars
Fear Falls Burning - The Infinite Sea Of Sustain
Ikuinen Kaamos - The Forlorn
Keane - Under The Iron Sea
Loscil - Plume
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Tool - 10,000 Days
Shora - Malval
Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down Quartet - Duper Sessions
Steven Wilson - Cover Version IV
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again

 

[biggsy]

1. Isis
2. Katatonia
3. The Butterfly Effect

Top 3... haven't really gotten into anything else. Had big expectations for 10,000 Days but that was shit to be blunt.

 

[in_absentia]

The new Butterfly Effect is pretty good, yeah. And Placebo 'Meds'. But Eternal Tears of Sorrow is still my number 1