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| Top 10 Albums Of Metal Of 2006
These are my opinion on the Top 10 Metal Albums of this year of 2006. | | 1 |  | UnExpect
In a Flesh Aquarium
Yes, this is the best album of the year in Metal, not only is it great in musicianship it is something that has never been even dreamed about. Its so crazy, its so out there it has to be number one just on its creativity. This album is was everything I thought I would never like, but it has really stretched out my horizons and how I look at music nowadays. The drummer with his pounding double bass the violin, the 9-string Base player, the guitars going every which way, the piano, the death growling, the great vocals by their lead woman lead singer. All this in one band, and in this album it was all put together. Really I don?t know where to describe this album, but it has the heart and the great song writing now one can imagine. Each song is a emotional roller coaster you never want to get off of, because its so different and so unlike anything you have ever heard. If you have a open mind about music, I mean a real open mind, this is a great album from you. | | 2 |  | Tool
10,000 Days
This might shock people but this is not the best album of 2006, and it was so hard to do so being a die hard Tool fan but the number one deserved the spot. This album was awesome, but probably not their best effort but very close to it because of the more lighter progressive elements they showed in this album. Tool has been known for their dark eerie lyrics, which a heavy bass and odd timed riffs. This album is nothing like their previous album, and a lot more emotional to Maynard?s heart we though we never would see. The album title is approximately how many days his mother suffered with cancer and she finally lost her battle to it. The lyrics show the soft side of Maynard and show the great skills Tool has on creating long majestic songs at no point get bored to. The two part song Wings of Mary talking about his mother is like an epic masterpiece we all knew Maynard had the skill of doing and did it. This album has heart and that?s why it is my number two. Songs to check out ?Vicarious?, ?10,000 Days?, ?Right in Two?. | | 3 |  | In Flames
Come Clarity
What can I say about this album, let alone this album. This album is what turned me into the direction of Melodic Death Metal, and holds a special place in my heart. It was so hard to make this not #1 but this is by far their best effort but even so they blow most out of the water (see only two other albums beat them). This album is much more emotional than their older albums, and also this album is very most a progressive landscape of the new In Flames with some Hardcore elements in which is interesting because Metalcore was created by Melodic Death, but this album is Melodic Death showing elements of Metalcore. Many would just turn off right here, but this album is different from anything I?ve heard. The heaviness of the songs, show the emotional hardship of the songs that really show the anger in what the band is showing us in their lyrics. If you are up for something new in Melodic Death Metal then this is the album to check out, Anders vocals are very well done to match the style in the music, and also this album is quite catchy. Songs to Check out ?Reflect the Storm?, ?Come Clarity?, ?Crawling Through Knives?. | | 4 |  | Agalloch
Ashes Against the Grain
Finally we are out of the woodwork of Metalcore, and into the house of Folk Black Metal. Here is a band that has the song writing skills and instrumental skills to create great atmosphere even Opeth can be impressed with. They have that down to earth type feel and heaviness you can just almost taste when the drummer hit?s the symbols while the guitars do its work to hook you into that atmosphere. This album almost puts you into the forest, and into the lyrics of what they are talking about, to give you the sense of the destruction happening. These guys don?t need catchy riffs, or a chorus to be good. Every songs has a purpose and every second is not wasted in their 8 min plus songs. Songs to Check out ?Limbs?, ?Falling Snow?, and ?Not Unlike the Waves?. | | 5 |  | All That Remains
The Fall of Ideals
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOWW!!!! That?s what happens when you put the album into your CD player. The lead singer screams at you, and your thinking, aren?t these guys Christian? This my friends is some brutal melodic Christian metal at it finest. Mixing in Christian like lyrics, to brutal double basing with hooky solos to overall make a very catchy album to make you sing the chorus till you have had enough of it. This album is very much more accessible to new Metalcore listeners that like catchy hooks and killer solos, and it shows how much they have grown from a very mediocre first try. Songs to check out ?The Calling?, ?Not Alone?, ?The Air I Breathe?. | | 6 |  | Into Eternity
The Scattering of Ashes
Progressive/Death/Hardcore Metal?nothing like that right? Into Eternity is has really out done them selves in this album. Their last two albums were good but nothing compared to this, they finally came out with a brutal, melodic, and catchy album all the way through, and not just good points in an album. The guitars can fly up and down the scales at speeds almost of Dragonforce, and their drummer knows how to keep up with this very furious double bass to give that thump when needed for a great head banging. The vocals/bass player has a very great scream with a raspy vocals, combined with the lead singers very good clean vocals and death growls really give you head a spin when you got three distinct vocals attacking you per song. Songs to check out ?Severe Emotional Distress?, ?Nothing?, ?Surrounded By Night?. | | 7 |  | Killswitch Engage
As Daylight Dies
Here is a veteran band that just will never give up, Killswitch Engage has really kept it going and there not going to stop in this album. They are that rare breed of Melodic Death Metal influenced Metalcore that keeps it heaviness but still has its hardcore/punk influences. They also get change it up from album to album like this album like ?End of a Heartache? has there new lead singer who shines with his very good clean vocals by really putting his soul on the emotional parts of lyrics (but not being whiney is the key). Then transforming his anger to his harsh yelling, that follows perfectly executed breakdowns. These guys are the true kings of consistency in Metalcore, and they prove it in this album. Songs to check out ?My Curse?, ?For You?, ?Still Beats Your Name?. | | 8 |  | Unearth
III: In The Eyes Of Fire
This album was expected, Unearth has been getting progressively better album after album. This is third album coming off a very good album years prior to this. Unearth in this album is a bit more melodic and a bit more faster, and strayed a bit from there hardcore roots more into the melodic Metalcore category with speed solos and brutal vocals that capture the anger of lyrics. This album is a bit more progressive than their last two because they seem to found away to stray away from excessive breakdowns as many Hardcore/Metalcore bands do. Top this bottom this album is a hard one to stop listening to, plus the album cover is pretty sick. Songs to check out ?Giles?, ?Sanctity Of Brothers?, and ?So It Goes?. | | 9 |  | The Human Abstract
Nocturne
Can anyone say Progressive Funk Metalcore, that?s what this act is about. There guitars are all over the place, the bass is awesome, the drummer is good enough to hang with these guys which complete another debut album like number 10 for success. The vocalist clean vocals are ok but his screaming or yelling is what keeps it interesting, he doesn?t get high pitched but keeps it very hearable and fits right in with the album. This band is about atmosphere, mixing in rage with beautiful music with the guitars to give the good atmosphere as one might say BTBAM has with there songs. Songs to check out ?Mea Culpa?, ?Movement from Discord?, and ?Vela, Together We Await The Storm?. | | 10 |  | As Blood Runs Black
Allegiance
This is not only a great album but it is a debut album from an American Hardcore/Metalcore that doesn?t know follow the same boring routine of screaming into a microphone with mediocre music behind. The drummer is one of the best I?ve seen mixing brutal drumming with somehow great melodic drumming. The guitars somehow go into the songs cutting in and out creating very entertaining and far from the same old Metalcore. Songs to check out are ?My Fears Have Become Phobias?, ?Hester Prynne?, and ?Brighter Side Of Suffering?. | |
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12.30.06 | rofl@picture | Bfhurricane
12.30.06 | All That Remains is Christian? damn never knew that.
This list is lacking Iron Maiden | metallicaman8
12.30.06 | and SLAYER | Thor
12.30.06 | Um All That Remains is not Christian. | dude64
12.30.06 | Maiden, Slayer, Mastodon | Crysis
12.30.06 | Not exactly my list here... a bit too much metalcore here... only real album I agree with is Ashes Against The Grain. Come Clarity was really sort of another metalcore kind of CD, In Flames needs to find themselves again....Scattering Of Ashes was a supreme disappointment (Buried In Oblivion was much better) and all that metalcore there really isnt my thing. Expand your genres and maybe include the best from each style of metal and it would make this list much better. | fisky009
12.30.06 | Iron maiden, iron maiden, iron maiden? | LaVozDormida
12.30.06 | Where's Mastodon?? or Lamb of God?? | Tyler
12.30.06 | There with the rest of the mediocre albums. | Pebster49
12.30.06 | Im pretty sure ATR is Christian, look at there lyrics
Slayer and Iron Maidens albums were kinda a disappointment for me, Mastodons I almost had in there I think they are 11th. There is so much Metalcore because I believe thats what shined this year. This is my opinion btw | LaVozDormida
01.03.07 | O yeah, what about Katatonia?? |
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