Top ten of 2006 (September)

[Cerulean]

One thing's for sure. There are some awesome albums still to come, and it's been the best year in YEARS already

 

[Hobo]

One thing's for sure. There are some awesome albums still to come, and it's been the best year in YEARS already

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so far my list wold be..
Green Carnation - Accoustic verses. this album has so far been the best album this year.. perhaps ever..
Tool - 10.000 days
Slayer - Christ illusion. Slayer finaly came back to thrash metal. and i love thrash.
Mars Volta - Amputechture.

I know i left out a shitload of goodies, but this would be my non sorted top 5 list. (do i need to mention who is missing?)

 

[Aprilhäxan]

These are mine:
Amon Amarth- With Oden On Our Side
Katatonia- The Great Cold Distance
Bathory- In Memory Of Quorthon
Thyrfing- Farsotstider
Deicide- The Stench Of Redemption
Dark Funeral- Attera Totus Sanctus
Enslaved- Ruun

 

[Scourge of Malice]

No Particular order...yet

1. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
2. Cursive - Happy Hollow
3. Enslaved - Ruun
4. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
5. Grave - As Rapture Comes
6. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
7. Emeth - Reticulated
8. Amorphis - Eclipse
9. Cradle Of Filth - Thornography
10. Suffocation - Suffocation

My Dying Bride, Hammerfall, Lacuna Coil, Deicide, Poisonblack, Amon Amarth, Rhapsody, Pagan Reign, Spawn Of Possession, Vader...either are honorable mentions or need more listens...A more complete top ten will happen soon.

Yeah Tool isn't in there...(don't kill me too much).

Don't worry, the new Tool is crap.

 

[Hypnos]

in order:

1. Katatonia 'TGCD' and Madder Mortem 'Desiderata'

2. Secrets Of The Moon 'Antithesis'
3. Agalloch 'Ashes Against The Grain'
4. Enslaved 'Ruun'
5. Dolorian 'Voidwards'
6. Saturnus 'Veronika Decides To Die'
7. Amorphis 'Eclipse'
8. Celtic Frost 'Monotheist'
9. Nerophobic 'Hrimthursum'
10. Communic 'Waves Of Visual Decay'

 

[Cerulean]

Mostly in the following order:

Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Axamenta - Ever-arch-][-tech-ture
Tool - 10.000 Days
Enslaved - Ruun
Carpathian Forest - Fuck You All!!!!
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Ancient Rites - Rvbicon
Mogwai - Mr Beast
The Gathering - Home
Moonspell - Memorial
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion


And I got a request for Amon Amarth: STOP MAKING THE SAME ALBUMS OVER AND OVER

 

[gone]

Isis "In Absence of Truth"
Cult of Luna "Somewhere Along the Highway"
Jesu "Silver"
Lamb of God "Sacrament"
My Dying Bride "Line of Deathless Kings"
Dolorian "Voidwards"
Daylight Dies "Dismantling Devotion"
Katatonia
Therapy? "One Cure Fits All"
Tenhi "Maaaet"
Khoma "The Second Wave"

The biggest disappointment so far has been "The Dead Eye" by The Haunted.

 

[Cerulean]

And boo to everyone who downloaded the new My Dying Bride already.
And I don't like the "I will buy it anyway" excuse...

 

[gone]

Yeah, boo to me for refusing to buy an album without hearing it first...

 

[Cerulean]

It's mainly called 'respect for the band'... especially since it's not out yet.

 

[gone]

How am I disrespecting them by listening to their music? And yes, I am going to buy the album when it comes out, believe it or not. I probably wouldn't buy it had I not downloaded it first, seeing as I wasn't very impressed with their previous efforts.

 

[Splintered Vision]

And I got a request for Amon Amarth: STOP MAKING THE SAME ALBUMS OVER AND OVER

Yeah! you tell em!

Not in any order:

Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway
The Butterfly Effect - IMAGO (Aussie Band)
Enslaved - Ruun
Tool - 10,000 Days
Wolverine - Still
The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra
Paatos - Silence Of Another Kind
Guild Of Destruction - Into Oblivion (Aussie Band)
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance (Scraps in)

 

[DegradationTrip]

In random order:

Agalloch - Ashes against the Grain
Therapy? - One Cure fits all
Pearl Jam - s/t
Tool - 10.000 Days
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Katatonia - tgcd
The Arcane Order - Machinery of Oblivion
The Gathering - Home
On Trial - Forever
Peter, Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
Moonspell - Memorial
OSI - Free
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
Lacrimas Profundere - Filthy Notes for Frozen Hearts

Thats about it, although I havent heard the new Novembre record yet.

 

[Clayman77]

In no particular order (thou TGCD is of course number one):

Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Amorphis - Eclipse
Novembre - Materia
In Flames - Come Clarity
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotions
The Gathering - Home
Placebo - Meds
Shamrain - Deeper Into the Night (mcd)
Moonspell - Memorial
Diablo - Mimic 47

I haven't yet gotten my hands on new Agalloch album, but as soon as I get it, it's going to be on that list. For rest of the year, I'm looking forward to new My Dying Bride and Killswitch Engage albums.

 

[Tone-Deaf]

there's a new god dethroned album coming out soon... I don't know them at all, I've heard only the new song at the myspace web. Do they suck?

O, I'm really anxious for the new Dark Tranquillity album

 

[BloodSword]

I got 5--"Blood in our Wells"-Drudkh. "Ashes against the Grain"-Agalloch. "Runn"--Enslaved. "Whips and Roses"-Tommy Bolin(not metal.) "Synchestra"-Devin Townsend. Honorable mention; "12 Stars of the Diadem"-Wolves in the Throne Room.

 

[LifeDepraved]

Haunted - The Dead Eye is complete and udder crap. And I must say...yes Amon Amarth have made the same album again...but that doesn't mean it's bad.

 

[Cerulean]

That's true
I like what I've heard, but I'm waaaay more attracted by bands who try to be creative. Hence it won't be in my top 10

 

[LifeDepraved]

Yeah I hear ya. Amon Amarth make the most simple riffs work though...The Odin inside me wants to thrash.

 

[°scarlet°]

i haven't bought much 'new' stuff this year, i've been mostly completing my collections with old releases i was still missing... anyway:

katatonia - the great cold distance
canaan - the unsaid words
tenhi - maaäet
novembre - materia
the gathering - home
v/a - an hommage to falkenbach
green carnation - acoustic verses

also, i'm looking forward to new my dying bride/solitude aeternus/moonsorrow/borknagar albums (needless to say, the kata tribute, too)
and, concerning the upcoming my dying bride album... posting opinions about it online before it's even released... is slightly too much, really.