GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2006

[CiG]

RYM ALBUMS LIST
RYM EP LIST

Reminder of the rules:
- please submit at least *5* releases. But just remember, real men vote at 10.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, only the first 10 will count. In other words, go back to the third rule.

Submit your lists by October 6th.

 

[Slammed]

1. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
2. Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
3. Doro - Warrior Soul
4. The Devin Townsend Band – Synchestra
5. Motörhead - Kiss of Death
6. Falconer – North wind
7. Týr – Ragnarok
8. Sabaton - Attero Dominatus
9. Folkearth - By the Sword of My Father
10. Black Label Society - Shot to Hell


HM
Tankard - The Beauty and the Beer
Place of Skulls - The Black Is Never Far
Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road
Elvenking - The Winter Wake
Slayer - Christ Illusion

 

[Krow]

Inb4 a bunch of fags put that whiny crybaby Warning album as their number one.

 

[CiG]

2006 is right around the time I got into metal, gonna be a total nostalgia trip.

 

[no country for old wainds]

krow is not feeling the green burning flame

 

[Vegard Pompey]

2006 is right around the time I got into metal, gonna be a total nostalgia trip.

Same pretty much. I remember A Matter of Life and Death coming out right at the peak of my Iron Maiden obsession (they were the first metal band I got into.) Excited to do this year.

 

[Allfader]

1 - Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles – Panégyrique de la dégénérescence. Grotesque, beautiful, rancid, passionate. It's just an incredible album.

2 - Celtic Frost - Monotheist. One of the most crushing metal albums ever made.

3 - Kampfar - Kvass. Great comeback album, packed with classically inspired folky riffing.

4 - Dissection - Reinkaos. Say what you want about not sounding like the previous albums, this is a melodic masterpiece.

5 - Antaeus - Blood Libels.

6 - Clandestine Blaze - Church of Atrocity

7 - Enslaved - Ruun

8 - Solefald - Icelandic Odyssey II: Black for Death

9 - Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines

10 - Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea

 

[CiG]

I remember Epitome of Darkness dropping this year and I blasted it nonstop well into 2007. Good times, I also got to see Suffocation live in 2007 in support of their 2006 album. That shit was mindblowing.

 

[The Ozzman]

In Flames - Come Clarity
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Suffocation - Suffocation
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Amorphis - Eclipse
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Kalmah - The Black Waltz
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies

Good year. I still listen to a majority of these albums regularly.

 

[CiG]

Inb4 a bunch of fags put that whiny crybaby Warning album as their number one.

Isole, The Gates of Slumber, Fall of the Idols, Mirror of Deception and Solitude Aeternus for this year > Warning.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

WFaD is not the best album of this year. It's the best album of this decade.

 

[CiG]

...lol

 

[Krow]

Imagine being such an emotional, limp wristed European that you actually believe that.

 

[Sophii]

Good year. A lot of weird Avant-Garde Metal Albums this year.

1.) Celtic Frost - Monotheist
2.) SikTh - Death of a Dead Day
3.) Archgoat - Whore of Bethlehem
4.) Devourment - Butcher the Weak
5.) The Abominable Iron Sloth - S/T
6.) Slugathor - Circle of Death
7.) Suffocation - Suffocation
8.) Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
9.) Buckethead - Elephant Man's Alarm Clock
10.) Anata - The Conductor's Departure

Honorable Mentions

Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Place of Skulls - The Black is Never Far
Cattle Decapitation - Karma.Bloody.Karma.
All Shall Perish - The Price of Existence
Shaolin Death Squad - Intelligent Design
Negură Bunget - OM
Panzerballet - Panzerballet
Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead
Funeral - From these Wounds
Om - Conference of the Birds
The Faceless - Akeldama
Yakuza - Samsara
Pagan Altar - Mythicals and Magicals
Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery
Textures - Drawing Circles
Sleep Terror - Probing Tranquility
Killing Joke - Hosannes From the Basements of Hell

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1 - Gorod - Leading Vision
2 - Spawn of Possession - Noctambulant
3 - Dismember - The God That Never Was
3 - Violator - Chemical Assault
5 - Cannibal Corpse - Kill
6 - Slayer - Christ Illusion
7 - Sodom - Sodom
8 - Kalmah - The Black Waltz
9 - Psycroptic - Symbols of Failure
10 - Martyr - Feeding the Abscess

Dissection - Reinkaos
Anata - The Conductor's Departure
Decide - The Stench of Redemption
Tankard - The Beauty and the Beer
Pathology - Surgically Hacked
Gory Blister - Skymorphosis
Suffocation - Suffocation
Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness
Drawn and Quartered - Hail Infernal Darkness
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis

 

[Sophii]

I need to spin some Spawn of Possession again. Those dudes are workaholics in their songs.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

tech-death gods. That album and the godly Leading Vision from Gorod are landmarks of the subgenre

 

[no country for old wainds]

i remember liking cabinet back in the day.

the lyrics are the worst thing about warning and i'm not gonna defend them, but idk how anyone can listen to that album and not get lost in the riffs and textures and atmosphere. thing is a fucking ocean, one of the most immersive things i've ever heard in any genre. he could be singing about anything and i'd still love it.

 

[The Ozzman]

6 - Slayer - Christ Illusion

8 - Kalmah - The Black Waltz

Forgot about these. Added to my list as well.

 

[Sophii]

I'm not familiar with post-nu metal stuff by Slayer, it pretty solid?