Your top 10 list from 2006: post it here.

[Sadguru]

Now that 2006 is slowly coming to an end, it's time to see your 10 favorite releases of the year and your biggest disappointments.

All genres mix-up.

Top 10 - 2006

1. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of the 12 Stars
2. Neronoia - Un Mondo In Me
3. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
4. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun
5. Tenhi - Maaäet
6. Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells
7. Mono - You Are There
8. Tool - 10 000 Days
9. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
10. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

honorable mentions: Gregor Samsa - 55:12, Celtic Frost - Monotheist, Enslaved - Ruun, Kayo Dot - Drownsing Anemone With Copper Tongue, Asunder - Works Will Come Undone

Biggest Disappointment
Drudkh - Songs of Grief and Solitude

 

[Crimson Death]

Pretty much
1-10: Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

everything else is beyond that including the Wolves album, Cult of Luna and so on and so on. Listening to OM's Conference of the Birds right now and its cool. But still #1 for Agalloch.

 

[J.]

i cant do these lists any more. ill give an overview

Kickassery: Amon Amarth, Necrophobic, Summoning, Jesu

Very good: Agalloch, Enslaved, Helheim, Red Sparowes

need more listens, but enjoy them muchly: darkthrone, Scald, Negura, Bal Sagoth

on the fence: belenos, drudkh

kinda guilty pleasure, not great: aeternus, manegarm

dissapointing: morrigan, isis, devin townsend


EDIT: havent heard Lord Wind or the mighty Graveland anno 2006

 

[Necromunchkin]

It is unlikely that anything will come out to change this updated top album list (but you never know) so here is the final listing in an actual order:

Napalm Death "Smear Campaign"
Wolves In the Throne Room "A Diadem of Twelve Stars"
Negura Bunget "OM"
Unleashed "Midvinterblot"
Drudhk "Blood In Our Wells"
Necrophobic "Hrimthursum"
Current 93 "Black Ships Ate The Sky"
Nachtmystium "Instinct/Decay"
Iron Maiden "A Matter of Life and Death"
Agalloch "Ashes Against the Grain"

I didn't include Melecesh as it will not be released here until 2007.

 

[Nico]

Ashes Against the Grain
Veronika Decides to Die
Om
Blood in Our Wells
Tempel
Monotheist
Diadem of 12 Stars

 

[MajestikMøøse]

My tenative list is (in no particular order):

Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Apocalips
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
Triarii - Pièce Héroique
Belborn & Rose Rovine E Amanti - Grain
Stahlwerk 9 - Der Tod nagelt die Augen zu...
Rome - Berlin
Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars
Der Blutharsch - When Did Wonderland End?
Negurã Bunget - Om
David Galas - The Cataclysm
Rome - Nera
H.E.R.R. - Vondel's Lucifer
Cawatana & Storm Of Capricorn - Split
Storm Of Capricorn & Paranoia Inducta - Jama
Spiritual Front - Armageddon Gigolo
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Cold Fusion - ORP Orzeł


I've got one or two 2006 albums I still want to hear, so the list needs some refinement.

not sure if I should count Death In June - Free Tibet, because it was just a download only album made of remixes and some unreleased stuff.

 

[EricT]

1. Drudkh - Blood in our wells (No Comment needed)
2. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 stars (suprised the fuck out of me)
3. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth (Quite the make up album for A night at the opera)
4. Agalloch - Ashes against the grain (Its Agalloch)
5. Negura Bunget - OM (Another suprise for me, as I didn't like NB too much previous of this release).
6. Enslaved - Ruun (As expected from Enslaved)
7. Summoning - Oathbound (I kinda wanna put this album higher in the list...)
8. Sodom - Sodom (Was a huge make up for their last few albums which I thought were quite half-assed).
9. Green Carnation - Acoustic Verses (I loved it)
10. Ancient Rites - Rvbicon (Ancient Rites releases only fvcking great albvms. PERIOD.)

Honorable Mentions:

Darkthrone - The Cult is Alive

Still waiting for:

Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death

Biggest Disapointment:

Disillusion - Gloria
Celtic Frost - Monothiest

 

[Zack]

Insomnium- Above the Weeping World
Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain
Saturnus- Veronika Decides to Die
Amorphis- Eclipse
Into Eternity- The Scattering of Ashes


I'll figure out the other 5 later...

 

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

The stuff I like you guys will just make fun of me for ..........so anyway heres what i liked.
No order:

Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side (Top 5 )
Hammerfall Threshold
Dream Evil United
The Haunted Dead Eye ( Top 5)
Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas
Mercenary Hours THat Remain ( probably Number 1 )
Wolf Black Flame
Inflames Come Clarity
1349 Hellfire
Deicide Stench Of Redemption
Killswitch Engage Daylight Dies ( Top 5)
I Between Two Worls ( Top 5)
Kataklysm In The Arms OF Devastation
Falkenbach Heralding The Fireblade
Unleashed Midvinterblot
Gwar Beyond Hell
Strapping Young Lad The New Black
All That Remains Fall Of Ideals
God Dethroned Toxic Touch
Blind Guardian Twist In The Myth
Cannibal Corpse Kill

As you can tell I listen to all sorts of different stuff. So just get over it.

 

[Necromunchkin]

Unleased was in my top four, and I definitely dig Amon Amarth and Wolf.

 

[General Zod]

Haven't figured out where they all rank, so here's a list of discs that could end up in my Top 10 of 2006:

Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side
Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
Dark Forest - Aurora Borealis
Drudkh - Blood in our Wells
Godsmack - IV
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Kiuas - Reformation
Klabautamann - Der Ort
Persuader - When Eden Burns
Place of Skulls - The Black is Never Far
Pyramaze - The Legend of the Bone Collector
Sabaton - Attero Dominatus
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
Shatter Messiah - Never to Play the Servant
Tool - 10,000 Days
Vader - Impressions in Blood
Vanden Plas - Christ 0
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars
Zero Hour - Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond

Zod

 

[Erik]

somethin like

agalloch - ashes against the grain
celtic frost - monotheist
negura bunget - om
helheim - the journeys and experiences of death
summoning - oath bound
katatonia - the great cold distance
jesu - silver
saturnus - veronika decides to die
tenhi - maaäet
daylight dies - dismantling devotion

 

[Demilich]

buh, i hate lists

Burning Saviours - Hundus
Colour Haze - Tempel
Dolorian - Voidwards
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Tool - 10,000 Days

i know there are a lot more, i must have at least 10-15 2006 releases so far

 

[Erik]

Dolorian - Voidwards

forgot this

it has SO much potential but i will probably not understand this album until 2009 or so

 

[Carbonized]

Solitude Aeturnus - Alone (#1 for sure)
Katatonia - TGCD (Could have been better)
Agalloch - Ashes... (Decent but underwhelming)
Ten Year Drought - Memoranda (Non metal)
Keith Caputo - Hearts Blood On Your Dawn (Non metal)
I - Between Two Worlds (Popeye vocals)
ShamRain - Deeper Into The Night EP (Non metal)
Falkenbach - Heralding: The Fireblade

for me it's been a pretty lackluster year. i wish i weren't so picky and i also wish i cared more about music these days. eh, whatever.

 

[Will Bozarth]

Solitude Aeturnus, Green Carnation, Dissection. everything else, I either haven't heard, or it didn't strike me as that good.

 

[J.]

i thought falkenbach was 2005

 

[Sadguru]

^^ Thought so too.

 

[Demilich]

forgot this

it has SO much potential but i will probably not understand this album until 2009 or so

I've been thanking you for recommending it since I got it, not sure if you ever noticed! It was a big, big surprise! Maybe by 2009 I'll have gotten around to checking out their earlier stuff.

I like how they talk about their music on the site. Most would probably dismiss it as a bunch of hyperbole, but its a pretty apt description.

 

[Carbonized]

Falkenbach was 2005, bummer. i thought it was a January release. screw it.