2006 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2006.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
[edit] Reformed bands
[edit] Albums
- The Acacia Strain - The Dead Walk
- Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed - PCP Torpedo/ANbRX
- Alice in Chains - The Essential Alice in Chains
- All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
- Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side
- Angra - Aurora Consurgens
- Arsis - United in Regret
- Atreyu - A Death Grip On Yesterday
- Beto Vázquez Infinity - Flying Towards the new Horizon
- Behemoth - Demonica
- Beyond Fear - Beyond Fear
- Black Label Society - Shot to Hell
- Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
- Borknagar - Origin
- Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings
- Cannibal Corpse - Kill
- Carpathian Forest - Fuck You All!!!!
- Catamenia - Location:COLD
- Catherine - Rumor Has It Asteroth Has Stolen Your Eyes
- Cattle Decapitation - Karma.Bloody.Karma.
- Celestiial - Desolate North
- Cellador - Enter Deception
- Celtic Frost - Monotheist
- Chrome Division - Doomsday Rock 'N' Roll
- Cradle of Filth - Thornography
- Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
- Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
- Def Leppard - Yeah!
- Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
- Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
- Dismember - The God That Never Was
- Dissection (band) - Reinkaos
- DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
- Dream Theater - Score
- Edguy - Rocket Ride
- Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
- Ensiferum - Dragonheads
- Enslaved - Ruun
- Europe - Secret Society
- Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse
- Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
- From a Second Story Window - Delenda
- Ghoul - Splatterthrash
- Godsmack - IV
- Grave - As Rapture Comes
- HammerFall - Threshold
- Heaven Shall Burn - Deaf to Our Prayers
- Himsa - Hail Horror
- In Flames - Come Clarity
- Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
- Kataklysm - In the Arms of Devastation
- Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
- Krisiun - AssassiNation
- Krux - II
- Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
- Lamb of God - Sacrament
- Lordi - The Arockalypse
- Mastodon - Call of the Mastodon, Blood Mountain
- Menacer - Rise up the Menace
- Mercenary - The Hours that Remain
- Misery Index - Discordia
- Misery Signals - Mirrors
- Moonspell - Memorial
- Motörhead - Kiss of Death
- Mushroomhead - Savior Sorrow
- My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
- Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
- Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
- Nightwish - Highest Hopes
- No Big Silence - War In Wonderland
- Outworld (band)-Outworld
- Paul Stanley, (Kiss) - Live to Win
- Phobia - Cruel
- P.O.D. - Testify
- Pitchshifter - None for All and All for OneEP
- Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime II
- Rammstein - Völkerball
- Rhapsody of Fire - Triumph or Agony
- Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
- Rotten Sound - Consume to Contaminate
- Runemagick - Invocation of Magick
- Sabaton - Attero Dominatus
- Sadus - Out for Blood
- Sepultura - Dante XXI
- Shadows Fall - Fallout From the War
- Skid Row - Revolutions Per Minute
- Skinless - Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead
- Slayer - Christ Illusion
- Sleep Terror - Probing Tranquility
- Sodom - Sodom
- Solefald - Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2
- Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
- Sonata Arctica - For the Sake of Revenge
- Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
- Spawn of Possession - Noctambulant
- Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
- Stratovarius - Black Diamond: The Anthology
- Sturmgeist - Über
- Suffocation - Suffocation
- Summoning - Oath Bound'
- Terrorizer - Darker Days Ahead
- Theatre of Tragedy - Storm
- The Sword - Age of Winters
- Trivium - The Crusade
- Týr - Eric the Red (re-release)
- Týr - Ragnarok
- Underoath - Define the Great Line
- Unearth - III: In the Eyes of Fire
- uneXpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
- Vader - Impressions In Blood
- Voivod - Katorz
- Wicked Wisdom - Wicked Wisdom
- Witchery - Don't Fear the Reaper
- Wolfmother - Wolfmother
- Zyklon - Disintegrate
[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Slipknot goes on hiatus until 2008 while members work on their "side projects".
- Queen, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, and Kiss are the first bands inducted into the VH1 Rock Honors.
- Alice in Chains reunite with the Jar of Flies line-up and singer William DuVall replaces the late Layne Staley.
- Lordi wins Eurovision Song Contest 2006.
- System of a Down goes on a long-term hiatus.
- Jesse Pintado of Terrorizer and formerly of Napalm Death passes away.
- Opeth drummer Martin Lopez officially and permanently leaves Opeth on May 12th, 2006, due to illness and is replaced by Martin Axenrot.
- Metalocalypse airs on the Adult Swim network.
- Visions of Atlantis keyboardist Miro Holly quits and is replaced by Martin Harb
- Chimaira drummer Andols Herrick rejoins the band (after leaving in 2003), forcing the departure of Kevin Talley.
- Tapio Wilska was fired from Finntroll due to personal differences.
| Preceded by: 2005 | Heavy Metal Timeline 2006 | Followed by: 2007 |
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