top 10 releases 2006

[Marlies]

Here's my top 10, a added some links and comments etc

1. Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes - no comment needed
2. Benedictum - Uncreation (www.myspace.com/benedictum) - the female Dio, just awesome
3. Communic - Waves of Visual Decay (www.myspace.com/communic) - for all Nevermore fans
4. Textures - Drawing Circles (www.myspace.com/textures) - brutal mix of death, hardcore, prog etc
5. Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse - still very Evergrey to me, so I still love it
6. Doro - Warrior Soul - most Warlock like album since many years
7. Marcel Coenen - The Colour Journey (www.myspace.com/marcelcoenen) - versatile songwriter and awesome guitarist, lots of guests on this album
8. Assailant - Nemesis Within (www.myspace.com/assailantsweden) - w/elements of Evergrey, In Flames, Morgana Lefay etc
9. Jon Oliva's Pain - Maniacal Renderings - for all old Savatage fans!
10. Vanden Plas - Christ O - just a great progmetal album

But.. I did not hear these possible candidates yet:
Wolverine, Zero Hour, Antiquus (just ordered!), Eidolon (got it, but hardly listened yet), Vicious Rumors, Metal Church, Celtic Frost, Slayer, The Orchard (got it, not listened yet).

I also enjoyed: Iron Fire (http://www.myspace.com/officialironfire), Mercenary, Axamenta (http://www.myspace.com/axamenta), Kataklysm.

 

[Lamers5150]

My personal top ten (in no order, except 100% that Into Eternity is the best album of the year)

Into Eternity - the scattering of ashes
The one man army and the undead quartet - Killing machine
Mercenary - the hours that remain
Katatonia - the great cold distance
Terror 2000 - terror for sale
In Flames - Come Clarity
Communic - waves of visual decay
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
Kataklysm - in the arms of devestation

 

[Lamers5150]

oh and the new Slayer album was good, definately Slayer, but it was not top 10 quality
metal church and celtic frost were also good but not top 10

 

[caitanya]

I can't place them in order 1-10 but if I had to give you 10 titles right now, it would have to be these...

Iron maiden - A matter of life and death
All that remains - Fall of ideals
Into Eternity - The scattering of ashes
Persuader - When eden burns
Textures - Drawing circles
Hatebreed - Supremacy
Protest the hero - Kezia
Walls of jericho - With devils amongst us all
Mendeed - This war will last forever

Biggest disappointment for me this year was Evergrey's "Monday morning apocalypse"... pure crap! And I really love their earlier stuff...

 

[caitanya]

ooops, missed one album... I enjoyed Mygrain - Orbit dance... so there you have my top ten releases of 2006!

 

[bloodofthepriest]

Communic - Waves of Visual Decay

Deicide - The Stench of Redemption

Dream Evil - United

Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Satanhas Gloriam

Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes

Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death

Torture Killer - Swarm

Twelfth Gate - Threshold of Revelation

Witchery - Don't Fear the Reaper

Celtic Frost - Monotheist

 

[ThinkAboutYourEnd]

My list is in descending order of greatness:

1. INTO ETERNITY-The Scattering Of Ashes (of course)
2. Suffocation-Suffocation
3. Agalloch-Against The Grain
4. Celtic Frost-Monotheist
5. Gojira-From Mars To Sirius
6. Arsis-United In Regret
7. God Dethroned-The Toxic Touch
8. Blind Guardian-A Twist In The Myth
9. Enforsaken-Sinner's Intuition
10. Kataklysm-In The Arm's Of Devastation

 

[dg2112rhoads]

Impaled Nazarene - Pro Patria Finlandia
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Agalloch - Against the Grain
Wolf - The Black Flame
Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side
I - Between Two Worlds
Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
Satyricon - Now Diabolical
Tankard - The Beauty and the Beer
Gwar - Beyond Hell

There ya go....harder to recall than I thought, but looks like there were a bunch of great albums this year, and of course the rest that I left out

 

[Hawk]

Top 25 cd's

01 Zero Hour - Specs Of Pictures Burnt Beyond
02 Seventh Wonder - Waiting In The Wings
03 Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
04 Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes
05 Antiquus - Elautheria
06 Twisted Into Form - Then Comes Affliction To Awaken The Dreamer
07 Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
08 Meyvn - Splintered Skies
09 Outworld – Outworld
10 Winters Bane - Redivivus
11 Wolf - The Black Flame
12 Jon Oliva's Pain - Maniacal Renderings
13 Kamelot - One Cold Winter's Night
14 Children Of Bodom - Chaos Ridden Years
15 Leatherwolf - World Asylum
16 Spheric Universe Experience - Mental Torment
17 Slayer - Christ Illusion
18 Time Requiem - Optical Illusion
19 Derek Sherinian - Blood Of The Snake
20 Dezperadoz - The Legend And The Truth
21 Beyond Fear - Beyond Fear
22 Vicious Rumors – Warball
23 Sanity's Rage - The Rage Of One EP
24 Wolverine – Still
25 Rammstein - Völkerball


Top 3 DVD's

01 Iced Earth - Alive In Athens
02 Kamelot – One A Cold Winters Night
03 Arch Enemy - Live Apocalypse

Best Concert of 2006

Exodus - Effenaar Eindhoven

 

[Marlies]

oh hey Henri, I learned from your Antiquus review that there was a new one haha!! I found out about that band when they sent me the first CD for the zine - I was blown away!!! After I read your review I immediately checked their site if this new CD was already out and was able to order it from their Italian label, got it two days later

 

[sdmf2]

in no order:

Amon Amarth- With Oden on Our Side
Cannibal Corpse- Kill
BLS- SHot to Hell
Vader- Impressions in Blood
Enslaved- RUUN
Into Eternity- The Scattering of Ashes
Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain
Kreator- Enemy of God:Revisited
Opeth- Ghost Reveries Special Edition

 

[ghost hunter]

Hi everybody, i'm new on the forum, i thought this was the right place to post my first words.

forget about TOOL, MARS VOLTA, BEYOND TWILIGHT, DEVIN TOWNSEND, MASTODON, WOLVERINE and all the rest. Into Eternity REALLY deserve to be in the first place. This album is truly awesome. Long time passed since an album hooked me as The Scattering Of Ashes did.


1. The scattering of ashes is in the first place for 2006 (along with Vanden Plas Christ.0)

2. The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel
3. A Triggering Myth - The remedy of abstraction
4. Angra - Aurora consurgens
5. Manticora - The black circus part 1, Letters
6. Mastodon - Blood mountain
7. Mars Volta / Tool
8. Zero hour - Specs of pictures burnt beyond
9. Devin Townsend - Synchestra
10. Little Tragedies - The sixth sense
11. Communic - Waves of visual decay
12. Trivium - The crusade
13. Wuthering Heights - The shadow cabinet
14. Agalloch - Ashes against the grain
15. Beyond Twilight - For the love of art and the making

But there are many more.....

cool forum

 

[Marlies]

ooh the Manticora is one I need to check out too, and the Beyond Twilight..

welcome Ghost Hunter, I've bumped the introduce yourself thread if you'd like to tell us a bit more about yourself
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...troduce-yourself-post5775563.html#post5775563

 

[rainmaker_2413]

Hard to say but right off the top of my head I'd go with these (although I'm probably leaving out some great ones)

Iron Maiden-A matter of life and death
Into Eternity-the scattering of ashes
Vanden Plas-ChristO
The Haunted-The Dead Eye
Blind Guardian-A twist in the myth
Mercenary-The Hours that remain
Scar Symmetry-Pitch black progress
Evergrey-Monday Morning Apocalypse
Angra-Aurora Consurgens
Mastodon-Blood Mountain

Honorable Mentions: Communic, In Flames, Dragonforce

 

[DragonLady1]

10 arent enough, so heres my top 20

Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes
Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Enslaved - Ruun
Unleashed - Midvinterblot
Textures - Drawing Circles
Placebo - Meds
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse
Zero Hour - Specs Of Pictures Burnt Beyond
God Dethroned - The Toxic Touch
Tool - 10,000 Days
Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay
Threat Signal - Under Reprisal
Isis - The Absence Of Truth
Trivium - The Crusade
Ion - Madre Protegenos

 

[MetalRose]

My tops (in no particular order):

1. Into Eternity- The Scattering of Ashes
2. Beyond Twilight- For the Love of Art and the Making
3. Lamb of God- Sacrament
4. Scar Symmetry- Pitch Black Progress
5. Adagio- Dominate
6. Amorphis- Eclipse
7. Poisonblack- Lust Stained Despair
8. Mercenary- The Hours that Remain

A small list of bands that I need to still get:

1. Communic- Waves of Visual Decay
2. My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
3. Threat Signal - Under Reprisal
4. Amon Amarth- With Oden on Our Side
5. Satyricon - Now Diabolical

-Metal

 

[zedowns]

1.Vanden Plas - Christ.0
2.Thessera - Fooled Eyes
3. Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
4. Wastefall - Self Exile
5. Venturia - The New Kingdom
6. Mindflow - Mind Over Body
7. Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
8. Circle II Circle - Burden of Truth
9. Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
10. Seventh Wonder - Waiting in the Wings

 

[swayn3rd]

1.Vanden Plas - Christ.0
2.Thessera - Fooled Eyes
3. Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
4. Wastefall - Self Exile
5. Venturia - The New Kingdom
6. Mindflow - Mind Over Body
7. Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
8. Circle II Circle - Burden of Truth
9. Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
10. Seventh Wonder - Waiting in the Wings

Awsome taste brah!

 

[rainmaker_2413]

Good to see some love for the new Vanden Plas...brilliant album. I can't really choose between VP, IE and Maiden for the top spot this year, they're all great in my opinion.

 

[Hawk]

oh hey Henri, I learned from your Antiquus review that there was a new one haha!! I found out about that band when they sent me the first CD for the zine - I was blown away!!! After I read your review I immediately checked their site if this new CD was already out and was able to order it from their Italian label, got it two days later

So how are you liking it Marlies? Do you agree with my review?