It's that time... your best albums of 2006

[lad]

It's been a while since I've posted in this thread.. but it's still the same:

Really intruiged by this band, as they sound quite promising. Which album should I get first?

 

[_Narcosynthesis]

Mercenary, Killswitch Engage, Satyricon and Scar Symmetry

 

[unknown]

LoM: Psychoscout is an amazing album, but I still like Isms better. Maybe I need to give it more listens

 

[Metal head87]

Cool, post away. They're talking a US Tour (limited, but still).

It was just put up.
Here it is

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I'm appending my list to include Karjalan Sissit - Tanssit On Loppu Nyt

 

[Karmic]

satana perkele

 

[Chromatose]

Official top ten of 2006 (posted on another forum):

1. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky: David Tibet has been in the apocalyptic folk scene for well over a decade now, yet his career has, arguably, not seen a more solid, poignant, brilliant album. This is a timeless release, and, at least in my mind, easily the best album of 2006. Certainly guests such as Antony of Antony and the Johnstons, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and Marc Almond of Soft Cell fame help to ensure the exquisite perfection of this album. To be honest, placing this album on this list is degrading. This album does not belong on a "best of this year" list. It's far better than that. Far above that in every way. This is a classic that will forever stand the test of time.

3. Circulus - Clocks Are Like People: Psychedelic Folk. This is not your momma's Jethro Tull. And this isn't your pretentious, music-snob uncle's Comus, though it is more akin to them than Jethro Tull...except...it's happier. It doesn't have spite for Christians as much as it just wants to sing and dance around a campfire in medieval garb with all of the faeries, sprites, and dryads. You may think that they are silly, but their intention is not to be silly, and they certainly don't see their actions as such. They are honest and love their music and subject matter. They want to set the faerie folk world on fire with the Progressive Rock stylings of the synthesizer, and they want to do so with respect and sincerity and make no nods at the pretentiousness of the Psychedelic Folk bands that came before them. Without question, they have succeeded.


5. Melvins - (A) Senile Animal: So...do you enjoy having your ears brutally and mercilessly raped, set on fire, urinated on, stabbed five, six, or seventy-three times, raped again, jerked back and forth across a cheese grater, raped once more, then have a foot long nail hammered fully into your ear? Well then, you are going to LOVE (A) Senile Animal. I'll admit that I am using hyperbole, and bands like Sunn O))) deliver that feeling much more precisely, but the Melvins deliver it in a more pleasant manner that will have you grooving along with the now double drum attack (honestly, a triple drum attack because of the prowess of Dale Crover). If you are prepared to have your face remorselessly smashed by a moshing, stomp dancing boot, than this is the album for you.

6. Flat Earth Society - Psychoscout: Flat Earth Society is a band that is not stuck in the historical details of Big Band music. Flat Earth Society is a Big Band at its core and an experimental band at heart. For nearly half of 2006, this was my favorite release, and it goes beyond the fact that this album is a pure joy to listen to. It feels unique; it feels fresh; it feels new. It is not, technically, overtly experimental. It is, however, experimental all the way throughout, never missing a moment to throw in a jilted rhythm. This is not what I appreciate most. It's the way that the experimentation is encorporated. Normally, it takes an exposed, experienced, open ear to catch the melodies within the experimentation, but for Flat Earth Society, it's the opposite. The experimentation is just another layer in the Big Band sound, and meshes in so well, that it sounds catchy, toe tappingly irresistable. Flat Earth Society continually reinvent experimentation and Big Band music seamlessly, and Psychoscout is no exception.

8. The Legendary Pink Dots - Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves: So what do you do when a band over twenty years old releases one of its best albums? You put said album in your top ten list for the year it came out. I have done that. If you do not know who the Legendary Pink Dots are, you are not alone. Easily classified as Neo-psychedelia, yet not easily classified, it's no wonder why the Legendary Pink Dots haven't exactly become a household name. Spoken vocals in a nursery rhyme esque fashion that I can only describe through relativity. Tibet of Current 93 speaks in nursery rhyme style, and relative to him, the Legendary Pink Dots sing in nursery rhyme style, yet it isn't really singing so much as it is speaking with a large overlay of effects to distort the voice(s). Minimalist electronics make up the base, and from that, all other music spawns, from jazzlike saxophone, to tinkling piano keys, to flamenco guitar. Expect folk. Expect Neo-psychedelia. Expect the unexpected. Even within the despair, there is a flamenco guitar, space age electronics, and poppy, bouncing brass. Yet the despair never leaves, and all of the eccentricities, cuteness, and weirdness only make the creepy undertones creepier. Wear your judgments on your sleeve and just believe. If you can accept for the sake of accepting, you will love The Legendary Pink Dots most recent oddity.

*hugs and kisses*

 

[derek]

Really intruiged by this band, as they sound quite promising. Which album should I get first?

From Mars to Sirius is a good start.

 

[derek]

I just remembered:

Sadus - Out For Blood.

It's one awesome record.

 

[metalskäter7]

I like the new Mythic Dragonbeast of Fire and Lightning album.

 

[Reminiscence]

Tyr: Ragnarok
Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
Communic: Waves of Visual Decay
Mercenary: The Hours That Remain
Bal Sagoth: The Cthonic Chronicles (or however it's spelled)

Still good:

Enslaved: Ruun
Green Carnation: The Acoustic Verses
Axamenta: Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture
Drudkh: Blood In Our Wells
Wolves in the Throne Room: Diadem of 12 Stars
Wastefall: Self Exile
Katatonia: The Great Cold Distance

Bad Releases:

Moonspell: Memorial

Stuff I Stayed Away From:

Evergrey
Rhapsody
Ihsahn
Blind Guardian
Amon Amarth
Borknagar
Satyricon
My Dying Bride (I still want to hear this one)


And finally, I bought MoRT the other day but haven't listened to it yet.


It was a beautiful year for metal. Best in a couple years at least.

 

[Day_Before_Dawn]

In no order:

Agalloch
Drudkh
Wolves In The Throne
Celtic Frost
Peste Noire
My Dying Bride
Mirrorthrone
Dissection
Ihsahn
Katatonia
Xasthur
Summoning
Vader

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Thats a pretty good list.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I was bored and the year is coming to an end so i thought i'd compile a longer, updated, and ordered list

1) Negura Bunget - Om
2) Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
3) Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
4) Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
5) Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
6) Enslaved - Ruun
7) Mirrorthrone - Carriers of Dust
8) Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
9) Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
10) My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings

Although, Eric recently opened my eyes to the new Myrkgrav album, "Trollskau, Skrømt Og Kølabrenning", and it is really really good. I just heard it today for the first time so I'm not sure where it would go on my list, but if this keeps up it could well find itself in my top 5 somewhere.

 

[EricT]

MY list has changed again (and will probably change once more before the year ends):

1. Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
2. Myrkgrav - Trollskau, Skromt Og Kolabrenning
3. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 stars
4. Negura Bunget - OM
5. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
6. Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth
7. Enslaved - Ruun
8. Summoning - Oathbound
9. Sodom - Sodom
10. Green Carnation - Acoustic Verses

Honorable mentions:
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Drudkh - Songs of Grief and Solitude
Ancient Rites - Rvbicon
Darkthrone - The Cult is Alive
Into Eternity - Scattering of Ashes
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings (I'm finally starting to warm up to this album, it just takes me time to not expect As The Flower Withers from them anymore.)

 

[Eyes Of The Insane]

1. Amon Amarth-With Oden On Our Side
2. Celtic Frost-Monotheist
3. Zyklon-Disentegrate

My site has poll on album of 06 wich will be made into a list soon.

Legions of the Abyss Polls

 

[Azzor1911]

too hard to pick a best one, so here's my list (in no particular order):

Kalmah - The Black Waltz
In Flames - Come Clarity
Solefald - Black for Death
Borknagar - Origin
Sturmgeist - Uber
Ihsahn
Head Control System - Murder Nature
Vader - Impressions in Blood
Kataklysm - In the Arms of Devastation
Zyklon - Disintegrate
Meshuggah - Nothing re-release (if that counts)
latest 3 Nevermore reissues

that's about it, i suppose.

NP: Falkenbach - Havamal

 

[Metal head87]

I think the new Seventh Wonder album is in the top 3 of the year for me. I just cannot get enough of this.