My favourite albums from 2006

1. 50

   Core

   Persefone

   

   

   Progressive metal | Death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Sanctuary: Light and Grief ●
   2. Underworld: The Fallen and the Butterfly
   3. Seed: Core and Persefone

2. 49

   The Locust Years

   Hammers of Misfortune

   

   

   Progressive metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Locust Years
   2. We Are the Widows
   3. Trot out the Dead
   4. Famine's Lamp
   5. Chastity Rides
   6. War Anthem
   7. Election Day
   8. Widow's Wall ●

3. 48

   Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue

   Kayo Dot

   

   

   Avant-garde metal | Post-metal

   Tracks:

   1. Gemini Becoming the Tripod
   2. Immortelle and Paper Caravelle
   3. Aura on an Asylum Wall
   4. _On Limpid Form
   5. Amaranth the Peddler ●

4. 47

   The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

   Brand New

   

   

   Post-hardcore | Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Sowing Season
   2. Millstone
   3. Jesus Christ
   4. Degauser
   5. Limousine (MS Rebridge)
   6. You Won't Know ●
   7. Welcome to Bangkok
   8. Not the Sun
   9. Luca
   10. [untitled]
   11. The Archers' Bows Have Broken
   12. Handcuffs

5. 46

   Pearl Jam

   Pearl Jam

   

   

   Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Life Wasted
   2. World Wide Suicide ●
   3. Comatose
   4. Severed Hand
   5. Marker in the Sand
   6. Parachutes
   7. Unemployable
   8. Big Wave
   9. Gone
   10. Wasted Reprise
   11. Army Reserve
   12. Come Back
   13. Inside Job

6. 45

   With Oden on Our Side

   Amon Amarth

   

   

   Melodic death metal | Viking metal

   Tracks:

   1. Valhall Awaits Me ●
   2. Runes to My Memory
   3. Asator
   4. Hermod's Ride to Hel — Loke's Treachery Part 1
   5. Gods of War Arise
   6. With Oden on Our Side
   7. Cry of the Black Birds
   8. Under the Northern Star
   9. Prediction of Warfare

7. 44

   Christ Illusion

   Slayer

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Flesh Storm ●
   2. Catalyst
   3. Skeleton Christ
   4. Eyes of the Insane
   5. Jihad
   6. Consfearacy
   7. Catatonic
   8. Black Serenade
   9. Cult
   10. Supremist

8. 43

   Dante XXI

   Sepultura

   

   

   Groove metal | Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Lost (Intro)
   2. Dark Wood of Error
   3. Convicted in Life ●
   4. City of Dis
   5. False
   6. Fighting on
   7. Limbo (Outro)
   8. Ostia
   9. Buried Words
   10. Nuclear Seven
   11. Repeating the Horror
   12. Eunoé (Intro)
   13. Crown and Miter
   14. Primium Mobile (Intro)
   15. Still Flame

9. 42

   The Black Waltz

   Kalmah

   

   

   Melodic death metal | Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Defeat
   2. Bitter Metallic Side
   3. Time Takes Us All
   4. To the Gallows ●
   5. Svleri Doroga
   6. The Black Waltz
   7. With Terminal Intensity
   8. Man of the King
   9. The Groan of Wind
   10. Mindrust
   11. One from the Stands

10. 41

    You in Reverse

    Built to Spill

    

    

    Indie rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Goin' Against Your Mind ●
    2. Traces
    3. Liar
    4. Saturday
    5. Wherever You Go
    6. Conventional Wisdom
    7. Gone
    8. Mess with Time
    9. Just a Habit
    10. The Wait

11. 40

    Somewhere Along the Highway

    Cult of Luna

    

    

    Post-metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Marching to the Heartbeats
    2. Finland ●
    3. Back to Chapel Town
    4. And with Her Came the Birds
    5. Thirtyfour
    6. Dim
    7. Dark City, Dead Man

12. 39

    The Sufferer & the Witness

    Rise Against

    

    

    Melodic hardcore | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Chamber the Cartridge
    2. Injection
    3. Ready to Fall
    4. Bricks
    5. Under the Knife
    6. Prayer of the Refugee ●
    7. Drones
    8. The Approaching Curve
    9. Worth Dying for
    10. Behind Closed Doors
    11. Roadside
    12. The Good Left Undone
    13. Survive

13. 38

    Hosannas from the Basements of Hell

    Killing Joke

    

    

    Industrial metal | Post-punk

    Tracks:

    1. This Tribal Antidote
    2. Hosannas from the Basements of Hell ●
    3. Invocation
    4. Implosion
    5. Majestic
    6. Walking with Gods
    7. The Lightbringer
    8. Judas Goat
    9. Gratitude

14. 37

    The Trials of Van Occupanther

    Midlake

    

    

    Folk rock | Country rock

    Tracks:

    1. Roscoe ●
    2. Bandits
    3. Head Home
    4. Van Occupanther
    5. Young Bride
    6. Branches
    7. In This Camp
    8. We Gathered in Spring
    9. It Covers the Hillsides
    10. Chasing After Deer
    11. You Never Arrived

15. 36

    Standing in the Way of Control

    Gossip

    

    

    Garage rock | Dance rock

    Tracks:

    1. Fire with Fire
    2. Standing in the Way of Control ●
    3. Jealous Girls
    4. Coal to Diamonds
    5. Eyes Open
    6. Your Mangled Heart
    7. Listen up!
    8. Holy Water
    9. Keeping You Alive
    10. Dark Lines

16. 35

    Brother, Sister

    mewithoutYou

    

    

    Post-hardcore | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Messes of Men
    2. The Dryness and the Rain
    3. Wolf Am I! (And Shadow)
    4. Yellow Spider
    5. A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains
    6. Nice and Blue (Pt. Two)
    7. The Sun and the Moon
    8. Orange Spider
    9. C-Minor
    10. In a Market Dimly Lit
    11. O, Porcupine
    12. Brownish Spider
    13. In a Sweater Poorly Knit ●

17. 34

    The Conductor's Departure

    Anata

    

    

    Technical death metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Downward Spiral into Madness
    2. Complete Demise
    3. Better Grieved Than Fooled
    4. The Great Juggler ●
    5. Cold Heart Forged in Hell
    6. I Would Dream of Blood
    7. Disobedience Pays
    8. Children's Slaughter
    9. Renunciation
    10. The Conductor's Departure

18. 33

    Black Holes and Revelations

    Muse

    

    

    Progressive rock | Space rock

    Tracks:

    1. Take a Bow
    2. Starlight
    3. Supermassive Black Hole
    4. Map of the Problematique
    5. Soldier's Poem
    6. Invincible
    7. Assassin
    8. Exo-Politics
    9. City of Dellusion
    10. Hoodoo
    11. Knights of Cydonia ●

19. 32

    Erotic Cakes

    Guthrie Govan

    

    

    Progressive rock | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Waves ●
    2. Erotic Cakes
    3. Wonderful Slippery Thing
    4. Ner Ner
    5. Fives
    6. Uncle Skunk
    7. Sevens
    8. Eric
    9. Slidey Boy
    10. Rhode Island Shred
    11. Hangover

20. 31

    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    

    

    Flamenco rock | Flamenco nuevo

    Tracks:

    1. Tamacun
    2. Diablo rojo ●
    3. Vikingman
    4. Satori
    5. Ixtaoa
    6. Stairway to Heaven
    7. Orion
    8. Juan Loco
    9. PPA

21. 30

    Epitome of Darkness

    Repugnant

    

    

    Death metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Hungry Are the Damned ●
    2. Premature Burial
    3. Voices of the Dead
    4. Draped in Cerecloth
    5. SPawn of Pure Malevolence
    6. From Beyond the Grave
    7. Sacred Blasphemy
    8. Eating from a Coffin
    9. Another Vision
    10. Mutilated Remains

22. 29

    From These Wounds

    Funeral

    

    

    Gothic metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. This Barren Skin ●
    2. From These Wounds
    3. The Architecture of Loss
    4. Red Moon
    5. Vagrant God
    6. Pendulum
    7. Saturn

23. 28

    In the Absence of Truth

    ISIS

    

    

    Post-metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Wrists of Kings
    2. Not in Rivers, but in Drops ●
    3. Dulcinea
    4. Over Root and Thorn
    5. 1,000 Shards
    6. All out of Time, All into Space
    7. Holy Tears
    8. Firdous e Bareen
    9. Garden of Light

24. 27

    Mythical & Magical

    Pagan Altar

    

    

    Heavy metal | Occult metal

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. Samhein
    3. The Cry of the Banshee
    4. The Crowman
    5. Daemoni na Hoiche
    6. The Sorcerer ●
    7. Flight of the Witch Queen
    8. Dance of the Druids
    9. The Erl King
    10. The Witches Pathway
    11. Sharnie
    12. The Rising of the Dark Lord

25. 26

    An Ancient Muse

    Loreena McKennitt

    

    

    Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Incantation
    2. The Gates of Istanbul
    3. Caravansarai ●
    4. The English Ldye and the Knight
    5. Kecharitomene
    6. Sacred Shabbat
    7. Beneath a Phrygian Sky
    8. Never-ending Road

26. 25

    Secret Society

    Europe

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Secret Society
    2. Always the Pretenders ●
    3. The Getaway Plan
    4. Wish I Could Believe
    5. Let the Children Play
    6. Human After It All
    7. Love Is Not the Enemy
    8. A Mother's Son
    9. Forever Travelling
    10. Brave and Beautiful Soul
    11. Devil Sings the Blues

27. 24

    Wolfmother

    Wolfmother

    

    

    Hard rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Dimension
    2. White Unicorn
    3. Woman
    4. Where Eagles Have Been
    5. Apple Tree
    6. Joker & the Thief ●
    7. Colossal
    8. Mind's Eye
    9. Pyramid
    10. Witchcraft
    11. Tales
    12. Love Train
    13. Vagabond

28. 23

    Stadium Arcadium

    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    

    

    Funk rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Dani California
    2. Snow (Hey Oh) ●
    3. Charlie
    4. Stadium Arcadium
    5. Hump de Bump
    6. She's Only 18
    7. Slow Cheetah
    8. Torture Me
    9. Strip My Mind
    10. Especially in Michigan
    11. Warlocks
    12. C'Mon Girl
    13. Wet Sand
    14. Hey
    15. Desecration Smile
    16. Tell Me Baby
    17. Hard to Concentrate
    18. 21st Century
    19. Readymade
    20. If
    21. Make You Feel Better
    22. Animal Bar
    23. So Much I
    24. Storm in a Teacup
    25. We Believe
    26. Turn It Again
    27. Death of a Martian

29. 22

    Passover

    The Black Angels

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Space rock revival

    Tracks:

    1. Young Men Dead ●
    2. The FIrst Vietnamese War
    3. The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven
    4. The Prodigal Sun
    5. Black Grease
    6. Manipulation
    7. Empire
    8. Better off Alone
    9. Bloodhounds on My Trail
    10. Call to Arms

30. 21

    Monotheist

    Celtic Frost

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Progeny
    2. Ground
    3. A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh
    4. Drown in Ashes
    5. Os Abysmi Vel Daath
    6. Obscured
    7. Domain of Decay
    8. Ain Elohim
    9. Totengott
    10. Synagoga Satanae ●
    11. Winter (Requiem, Chapter Three: Finale)

31. 20

    Sam's Town

    The Killers

    

    

    Alternative rock | New wave

    Tracks:

    1. Sam's Town
    2. Enterlude
    3. When You Were Young
    4. Bling (Confession of a King)
    5. For Reasons Unknown
    6. Read My Mind
    7. Uncle Jonny ●
    8. Bones
    9. My List
    10. This River Is Wild
    11. Why Do I Keep Counting?
    12. Exitude

32. 19

    Ruun

    Enslaved

    

    

    Progressive black metal | Viking metal

    Tracks:

    1. Entroper
    2. Path to Vanir
    3. Fusion of Sense and Earth
    4. Ruun ●
    5. Tides of Chaos
    6. Essence
    7. Api-vat
    8. Heir to the Cosmic Seed

33. 18

    Black Stone Cherry

    Black Stone Cherry

    

    

    Hard rock | Southern rock

    Tracks:

    1. Rain Wizard ●
    2. Backwoods Gold
    3. Lonely Train
    4. Maybe Someday
    5. When the Weight Comes Down
    6. Crosstown Woman
    7. Shooting Star
    8. Hell and High Water
    9. Shapes of Things
    10. Violator Girl
    11. Tired of the Rain
    12. Drive
    13. Rollin' on

34. 17

    Costello Music

    The Fratellis

    

    

    Garage rock

    Tracks:

    1. Henrietta
    2. Flathead
    3. Cuntry Boys & City Girls
    4. Whistle for the Choir
    5. Chelsea Dagger
    6. For the Girl
    7. Doginabag
    8. Creepin up the Backstairs
    9. Vince the Loveable Stoner
    10. Everybody Knows You Cried Last Night
    11. Baby Fratelli
    12. Got Ma Nuts from a Hippy ●
    13. Ole Black 'n' Blue Eyes

35. 16

    Eclipse

    Amorphis

    

    

    Folk metal | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Two Moons
    2. House of Sleep ●
    3. Leaves Scar
    4. Born from Fire
    5. Under a Soil and Black Stone
    6. Perkele (The God of Fire)
    7. The Smoke
    8. Same Flesh
    9. Brother Moon
    10. Empty Opening

36. 15

    Boys and Girls in America

    The Hold Steady

    

    

    Indie rock

    Tracks:

    1. Stuck Between Stations
    2. Chips Ahoy!
    3. Hot Soft Light
    4. Same Kooks
    5. First Night ●
    6. You Can Make Him Like You
    7. Massive Nights
    8. Citrus
    9. Chillout Tent
    10. Southtown Girls

37. 14

    Alone

    Solitude Aeturnus

    

    

    Epic doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Scent of Death
    2. Waiting for the Light
    3. Blessed Be the Dead
    4. Sightless
    5. Upon Within
    6. Burning
    7. Is There ●
    8. Tomorrow's Dead
    9. Essence of Black

38. 13

    Above the Weeping World

    Insomnium

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Gale
    2. Mortal Share
    3. Drawn to Black ●
    4. Change of Heart
    5. At the Gates of Sleep
    6. The Killjoy
    7. Last Statement
    8. Devoid of Caring
    9. In the Groves of Death

39. 12

    The Great Cold Distance

    Katatonia

    

    

    Alternative rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Leaders
    2. Deliberation
    3. Soil's Song
    4. My Twin
    5. Consternation
    6. Follower
    7. Rusted
    8. Increase
    9. July ●
    10. In the White
    11. The Itch
    12. Journey Through Pressure

40. 11

    Ashes Against the Grain

    Agalloch

    

    

    Post-metal | Progressive black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Limbs
    2. Falling Snow
    3. This White Mountain on Which You Will Die
    4. Fire Above, Ice Below
    5. Not Unlike the Waves ●
    6. Our Fortress Is Burning ... I
    7. Our Firtress Is Burning ... II — Bloodbirds
    8. Our Fortress Us Burning ... III — The Grain

41. 10

    Come Clarity

    In Flames

    

    

    Melodic death metal | alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Take This Life ●
    2. Leeches
    3. Reflect the Storm
    4. Dead End
    5. Scream
    6. Come Clarity
    7. Vacuum
    8. Pacing Death's Trail
    9. Crawling Through Knives
    10. Versus Terminus
    11. Our Infinite Struggle
    12. Vanishing Light
    13. Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone

42. 9

    The Dark Third

    Pure Reason Revolution

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Aeropause
    2. Goshen's Remains
    3. Apprentice of the Universe
    4. The Bright Ambassadors of Morning ●
    5. The Exact Colour
    6. Voices in Winter / In the Realms of the Divine
    7. Bullitts Dominæ
    8. The Twyncyn / Trembling Willows
    9. He Tried to Show Them Magic! / Ambassadors Return

43. 8

    Mosaic

    Wovenhand

    

    

    Gothic americana

    Tracks:

    1. Breathing Bull
    2. Winter Shaker
    3. Swedish Purse
    4. Twig
    5. Whistling Girl
    6. Elktooth
    7. Bible and Bird
    8. Dirty Blue ●
    9. Slota Prow — Full Armour
    10. Truly Golden
    11. Deerskin Doll
    12. Little Raven / Shun

44. 7

    Sacrament

    Lamb of God

    

    

    Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Walk with Me in Hell
    2. Again We Rise
    3. Redneck ●
    4. Pathetic
    5. Foot to the Throat
    6. Descending
    7. Blacken the Cursed Sun
    8. Forgotten (Los Angeles)
    9. Requiem
    10. More Time to Kill
    11. Beating on Death's Door

45. 6

    A Matter of Life and Death

    Iron Maiden

    

    

    Progressive metal | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Different World
    2. These Colours Don't Run
    3. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
    4. The Pilgrim
    5. The Longest Day
    6. Out of the Shadows
    7. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
    8. For the Greater Good of God ●
    9. Lord of Light
    10. The Legacy

46. 5

    Amputechture

    The Mars Volta

    

    

    Progressive rock | experimental rock

    Tracks:

    1. Vicarious Atonement
    2. Tetragrammaton
    3. Vermicide
    4. Meccamputechture
    5. Asilos Magdalena
    6. Viscera Eyes
    7. Day of the Baphomets ●
    8. El Ciervo Vulnerado

47. 4

    Revelations

    Audioslave

    

    

    Alternative rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Revelations
    2. One and the Same
    3. Son of a Gun
    4. Until We Fall
    5. Original Fire
    6. Broken City
    7. Somedays
    8. Shape of Things to Come
    9. Jewel of the Summertime
    10. Wide Awake
    11. Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye
    12. Moth ●

48. 3

    The Crane Wife

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Folk rock | progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Crane Wife 3
    2. The Island: Come and See / The Landlord's Daughter / You'll Not Feel Drowning ●
    3. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
    4. O Valencia!
    5. The Perfect Crime #2
    6. When the War Came
    7. Shankill Butchers
    8. Summersong
    9. The Crane Wife 1 & 2
    10. Sons & Daughters

49. 2

    10,000 Days

    Tool

    

    

    Progressive metal | avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Vicarious
    2. Jambi
    3. Wings for Marie, Pt. 1
    4. 10,000 Days (Wings, Pt. 2)
    5. The Pot ●
    6. Lipan Conjuring
    7. Lost Keys (Blame Hoffman)
    8. Rosetta Stoned
    9. Intension
    10. Right in Two
    11. Viginti Tres

50. 1

    Blood Mountain

    Mastodon

    

    

    Progressive metal | sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Wolf Is Loose
    2. Crystal Skull
    3. Sleeping Giant
    4. Capillarian Crest ●
    5. Circle of Cysquatch
    6. Bladecatcher
    7. Colony of Birchmen
    8. Hunters of the Sky
    9. Hand of Stone
    10. This Mortal Soil
    11. Siberian Divide
    12. Pendulous Skin