My favourite albums from 2006

1. 51

   Core

   Persefone

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Death metal

2. 50

   The Locust Years

   Hammers of Misfortune

   
   

   Tracklist

   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 ●

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Heavy metal

3. 49

   Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue

   Kayo Dot

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Avant-garde metal
   • Post-metal

4. 48

   The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

   Brand New

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Post-hardcore
   • Alternative rock

5. 47

   Pearl Jam

   Pearl Jam

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative rock

6. 46

   The Burning Halo

   Draconian

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. She Dies
   2. Through Infectious Waters (A Sickness Elegy)
   3. The Dying
   4. Serenade of Sorrow ●
   5. The Morningstar
   6. The Gothic Embrace
   7. On Sunday They Will Kill the World
   8. Forever My Queen

   Genres

   • Death-doom
   • Gothic metal

7. 45

   With Oden on Our Side

   Amon Amarth

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Melodic death metal
   • Viking metal

8. 44

   Christ Illusion

   Slayer

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Thrash metal

9. 43

   Dante XXI

   Sepultura

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Groove metal
   • Thrash metal

10. 42

    The Black Waltz

    Kalmah

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Power metal

11. 41

    You in Reverse

    Built to Spill

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Indie rock
    • Psychedelic rock

12. 40

    Somewhere Along the Highway

    Cult of Luna

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Sludge metal

13. 39

    The Sufferer & the Witness

    Rise Against

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic hardcore
    • Punk rock

14. 38

    Hosannas from the Basements of Hell

    Killing Joke

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Industrial metal
    • Post-punk

15. 37

    The Trials of Van Occupanther

    Midlake

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • Country rock

16. 36

    Standing in the Way of Control

    Gossip

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Garage rock
    • Dance rock

17. 35

    Brother, Sister

    mewithoutYou

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Post-hardcore
    • Art rock

18. 34

    The Conductor's Departure

    Anata

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Technical death metal
    • Melodic death metal

19. 33

    Black Holes and Revelations

    Muse

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Space rock

20. 32

    Erotic Cakes

    Guthrie Govan

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Jazz fusion

21. 31

    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Flamenco rock
    • Flamenco nuevo

22. 30

    Epitome of Darkness

    Repugnant

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Death metal
    • Thrash metal

23. 29

    From These Wounds

    Funeral

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Gothic metal
    • Doom metal

24. 28

    In the Absence of Truth

    ISIS

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Progressive metal

25. 27

    Mythical & Magical

    Pagan Altar

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Occult metal

26. 26

    An Ancient Muse

    Loreena McKennitt

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk

27. 25

    Secret Society

    Europe

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock

28. 24

    Wolfmother

    Wolfmother

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Blues rock

29. 23

    Stadium Arcadium

    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Funk rock
    • Alternative rock

30. 22

    Passover

    The Black Angels

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Psychedelic rock
    • Space rock revival

31. 21

    Monotheist

    Celtic Frost

    
    

    Tracklist

    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)

    Genres

    • Avant-garde metal
    • Gothic metal

32. 20

    Sam's Town

    The Killers

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • New wave

33. 19

    Ruun

    Enslaved

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive black metal
    • Viking metal

34. 18

    Black Stone Cherry

    Black Stone Cherry

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Southern rock

35. 17

    Costello Music

    The Fratellis

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Garage rock

36. 16

    Eclipse

    Amorphis

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk metal
    • Gothic metal

37. 15

    Boys and Girls in America

    The Hold Steady

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Indie rock

38. 14

    Alone

    Solitude Aeturnus

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Epic doom metal

39. 13

    Above the Weeping World

    Insomnium

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Progressive metal

40. 12

    The Great Cold Distance

    Katatonia

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Alternative metal

41. 11

    Ashes Against the Grain

    Agalloch

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Progressive black metal

42. 10

    Come Clarity

    In Flames

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • alternative metal

43. 9

    The Dark Third

    Pure Reason Revolution

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

44. 8

    Mosaic

    Wovenhand

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Gothic americana

45. 7

    Sacrament

    Lamb of God

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Groove metal

46. 6

    A Matter of Life and Death

    Iron Maiden

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • heavy metal

47. 5

    Amputechture

    The Mars Volta

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • experimental rock

48. 4

    Revelations

    Audioslave

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • hard rock

49. 3

    The Crane Wife

    The Decemberists

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • progressive rock

50. 2

    10,000 Days

    Tool

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • avant-garde metal

51. 1

    Blood Mountain

    Mastodon

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • sludge metal