2006

Core

Persefone

• Label: Soundholic
• Released: 23 August 2006

• Progressive metal
• Death metal

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

The Locust Years

Hammers of Misfortune

• Label: Cruz del Sur
• Released: 26 June 2006

• Progressive metal
• Heavy metal

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

Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue

Kayo Dot

• Label: Robotic Empire
• Released: 10 January 2006

• Avant-garde metal
• Post-metal

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

The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

Brand New

• Label: Interscope
• Released: 21 November 2006

• Post-hardcore
• Alternative rock

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

Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam

• Label: Sony/BMG
• Released: 2 May 2006

• Alternative rock

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

The Burning Halo

Draconian

• Label: Napalm
• Released: 29 September 2006

• Death-doom
• Gothic metal

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

With Oden on Our Side

Amon Amarth

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 22 September 2006

• Melodic death metal
• Viking metal

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

Christ Illusion

Slayer

• Label: American
• Released: 8 August 2006

• Thrash metal

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

Dante XXI

Sepultura

• Label: Steamhammer
• Released: 14 March 2006

• Groove metal
• Thrash metal

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

The Black Waltz

Kalmah

• Label: Spikefarm
• Released: 22 February 2006

• Melodic death metal
• Power metal

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

You in Reverse

Built to Spill

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 11 April 2006

• Indie rock
• Psychedelic rock

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

Somewhere Along the Highway

Cult of Luna

• Label: Earache
• Released: 24 April 2006

• Post-metal
• Sludge metal

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

The Sufferer & the Witness

Rise Against

• Label: Geffen
• Released: 4 July 2006

• Melodic hardcore
• Punk rock

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

Hosannas from the Basements of Hell

Killing Joke

• Label: Cooking Vinyl
• Released: 3 April 2006

• Industrial metal
• Post-punk

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

The Trials of Van Occupanther

Midlake

• Label: Bella Union
• Released: 25 July 2006

• Folk rock
• Country rock

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

Standing in the Way of Control

Gossip

• Label: Kill Rock Stars
• Released: 24 January 2006

• Garage rock
• Dance rock

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

Brother, Sister

mewithoutYou

• Label: Tooth & Nail
• Released: 26 September 2006

• Post-hardcore
• Art rock

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

The Conductor's Departure

Anata

• Label: Wicked World
• Released: 19 June 2006

• Technical death metal
• Melodic death metal

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

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 3 July 2006

• Progressive rock
• Space rock

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

Erotic Cakes

Guthrie Govan

• Label: Comford Records
• Released: 1 Januaary 2006

• Progressive rock
• Jazz fusion

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

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rodrigo y Gabriela

• Label: ATO
• Released: 17 February 2006

• Flamenco rock
• Flamenco nuevo

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

Epitome of Darkness

Repugnant

• Label: Soulseller
• Released: 2006

• Death metal
• Thrash metal

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

From These Wounds

Funeral

• Label: TABU
• Released: 4 December 2006

• Gothic metal
• Doom metal

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

In the Absence of Truth

ISIS

• Label: Ipecac
• Released: 31 October 2006

• Post-metal
• Progressive metal

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

Mythical & Magical

Pagan Altar

• Label: Oracle
• Released: 18 December 2006

• Heavy metal
• Occult metal

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

An Ancient Muse

Loreena McKennitt

• Label: Quinlan Road
• Released: 20 November 2006

• Folk

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

Secret Society

Europe

• Label: Sanctuary
• Released: 25 October 2006

• Hard rock

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

Wolfmother

Wolfmother

• Label: Modular
• Released: 31 October 2006

• Hard rock
• Blues rock

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

Stadium Arcadium

Red Hot Chili Peppers

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 5 May 2006

• Funk rock
• Alternative rock

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

Passover

The Black Angels

• Label: Light in the Attic
• Released: 11 April 2006

• Psychedelic rock
• Space rock revival

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

Monotheist

Celtic Frost

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 29 May 2006

• Avant-garde metal
• Gothic metal

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)

Sam's Town

The Killers

• Label: Island
• Released: 27 September 2006

• Alternative rock
• New wave

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

Ruun

Enslaved

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 2 May 2006

• Progressive black metal
• Viking metal

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

Black Stone Cherry

Black Stone Cherry

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 18 July 2006

• Hard rock
• Southern rock

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

Costello Music

The Fratellis

• Label: Fallout
• Released: 11 September 2006

• Garage rock

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

Eclipse

Amorphis

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 15 February 2006

• Folk metal
• Gothic metal

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

Boys and Girls in America

The Hold Steady

• Label: Vagrant
• Released: 3 October 2006

• Indie rock

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

Alone

Solitude Aeturnus

• Label: Massacre
• Released: 10 November 2006

• Epic doom metal

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

Above the Weeping World

Insomnium

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 18 September 2006

• Melodic death metal
• Progressive metal

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

The Great Cold Distance

Katatonia

• Label: Peaceville
• Released: 13 March 2006

• Alternative rock
• Alternative metal

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

Ashes Against the Grain

Agalloch

• Label: The End
• Released: 8 August 2006

• Post-metal
• Progressive black metal

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

Come Clarity

In Flames

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 3 February 2006

• Melodic death metal
• alternative metal

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

The Dark Third

Pure Reason Revolution

• Label: Holograph
• Released: 10 April 2006

• Progressive rock

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

Mosaic

Wovenhand

• Label: Glitterhouse Records
• Released: 19 June 2006

• Gothic americana

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

Sacrament

Lamb of God

• Label: Epic
• Released: 22 August 2006

• Groove metal

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

A Matter of Life and Death

Iron Maiden

• Label: EMI
• Released: 25 August 2006

• Progressive metal
• heavy metal

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

Amputechture

The Mars Volta

• Label: Universal
• Released: 12 September 2006

• Progressive rock
• experimental rock

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

Revelations

Audioslave

• Label: Epic
• Released: 4 September 2006

• Alternative rock
• hard rock

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

The Crane Wife

The Decemberists

• Label: Epic
• Released: 3 October 2006

• Folk rock
• progressive rock

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

10,000 Days

Tool

• Label: Volcano
• Released: 28 April 2006

• Progressive metal
• avant-garde metal

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

Blood Mountain

Mastodon

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 12 September 2006

• Progressive metal
• sludge metal

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