Top 10 Metal CDs of 2006

[Danimal]

OK, Here's one for all of you out there that lurk the forum and never post anything. If you are reading this forum, I assume that you like metal and we are always curious what bands other people are into. Let's hear from ya!!!

What were your favorite releases of 2006???

Here's my Top 10 for 2006:


1. Speed-Kill-Hate - Acts of Insanity

2. Slayer - Christ Illusion

3. Kataklysm - In The Arms Of Devastation

4. Lamb of God – Sacrament

5. Yyrkoon - Unhealthy Opera

6. Twelfth Gate - Threshold of Revelation

7. Underthreat – Deathmosphere

8. Kalmah - The Black Waltz

9. Strapping Young Lad - The New Black

10. Beyond Fear - Beyond Fear

 

[metalprof]

Hey, I've actually heard one of those! (Twelfth Gate).

I haven't resolved my list yet, but it's likely to include such manly choices as Angra and Wuthering Heights. I'm pretty sure it will also include Mercenary and possibly Scar Symmetry. I'll try to remember to post it when I figure it out.

Ken

 

[Jasonic]

Off the top of my head (in no order):

Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Wolf - The Black Flame
Luca Turilli - The Infinite Wonders of Creation
Motorhead - Kiss of Death
Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver
Nocturnal Rites - Grand Illusion (2006 for N America)
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
Edguy - Rocket Ride (tho a bit dissappointing)
Blind Guardian - Twist in the Myth (see above)

Two others that I just got last week that probably would have made the list had I gotten them earlier and given them a proper listening by year end:
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
HammerFall - Threshold

 

[metalprof]

Here are mine (any bunch of 5 is in alphabetical order):

1-5:
Amorphis - Eclipse.
Angra - Aurora Consurgens.
Circle II Circle - Burden of Truth.
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress.
Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet.

6-10:
Astral Doors - Astralism.
Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth.
Elvenking - The Winter Wake.
Mercenary - The Hours That Remain.
Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver.

11-15:

Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse
Falconer - Northwind
Saga - Trust
Time Requiem - Optical Illusion

16-20:

A.C.T.- Silence
Andromeda - Chimera
Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
Mob Rules - Ethnolution A.D.
Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard

20-25:
Cloudscape - Crimson Skies
Edenbridge - The Grand Design
Pharoah- The Longest Night
Rhapsody of Fire - Triumph or Agony
Twelfth Gate - Threshold of Revelation

Honorable Mention (And Could Possibly Move Up Later):
Cryptic Vision - In A World
Eden's Fall - Harmony of Lies
Prototype - Continuum
Toto - Falling In Between
Warmachine - The Beginning of the End