Decebel Magazine Top 40 Albums of 2006

[Nate The Great]

1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2. Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights
3. Converge - No Heroes
4. Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
5. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
6. Jesu - Silver
7. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
8. Enslaved - Ruun
9. Tragedy - Nerve Damage
10. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
11. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
12. Burst - Origo
13. Isis - In The Absence of Truth
14. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
15. Taint - The Ruin of Nova Roma
16. Craft - Fuck the Universe
17. The Hope Conspiracy - Death Knows Your Name
18. Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
19. Planes Mistaken For Stars - Mercy
20. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
21. Suffocation - Suffocation
22. Fucked Up - Hidden World
23. DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
24. Jucifer - If Thine Enemy Hunger
25. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
26. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
27. Unearthly Trance - The Trident
28. Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
29. Scott Walker - The Drift
30. Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
31. Made Out of Babies - Coward
32. Engineer - Reproach
33. Lamb of God - Sacrament
34. Boris - Pink
35. Kylesa - Time Will Fuse Its Worth
36. Protest the Hero - Kezia
37. Cretin - Freakery
38. The Sword - Age of Winters
39. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
40. First Blood - Killafornia

False Metal Album of the Year: Danava, Danava

Tr00 Metal Album of the Year: Iron Maiden, A Matter of Life and Death

Five-Tool Prospect of the Year: Baroness

Lifetime Achievement Award: Enslaved

Isis Rip-Off Band of the Year: Tool

Most Unexpected "Hipster Metal" Article Fallout of Year: NPR interviews

Most Garish Extreme Artist MySpace Profile of the Year: Trey Azagthoth

Comeback of the Year Award: Celtic Frost

Don't Come Back Next Year Award: Rob Zombie

"Four Letters Say It All" Song Title of the Year: "Gunt," Made Out of Babies

Pelican Memorial "No, Seriously, Stop Talking" Award: Peter Dolving, the Haunted

Unapologetic Pantera Worship of the Year: Lamb of God, "Redneck"

Reissue of the Year: (tie) Only Living Witness, Prone Mortal

Form/Innocents and Beherit, The Oath of Black Blood

"OK, That Happened" Album of the Year: Jeff Walker und Die Fluffers, Welcome to Carcass Cuntry

Pointless Covers Album of the Year: (tie) The Dillinger Escape Plan, Plagiarism and Between the Buried and Me, The Anatomy of

Projected Most Pointless Release of 2007: Isis, Panopticon Remixes 4CD-boxset

Most Unwelcome Yet Predictable Breakup of the Year: the Darkness

Comedy Album of the Year: Khlyst, Chaos Is My Name

Catchphrase We're Psyched to Be Associated With: (tie) "invisible oranges" and "good cop/bad cop"

Catchphrase We're Not So Psyched to Be Associated With: "nigel hipsters"

 

[cthulufhtagn]

tragedy have a new album??? wtf!?!? MUST BUY NEW TRAGEDY AND KYLESA ALBUMS

 

[Trylakos]

I wanna hear that "gunt" song!

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Hey, I saw those Danava folks play with Witchcraft. Don't remember much about them, though

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Tool = "Isis ripoff"

 

[JayKeeley]

Tool = "Isis ripoff"

Yeah, that's ridiculous.

And Agalloch at #11 in Decibel??

 

[Para-Void]

I think the Akercocke is 2005, or else I'm really disappointed of not seeing it in anyone's list here. Either way, Words is one of the more brilliant things I've heard this year, too bad it's not as talked about as Choronzon.

 

[Para-Void]

Tool = "Isis ripoff"

Lol. It's basically Isis who are becoming more and more Tool. They clearly mention them as an influence too.

 

[JayKeeley]

Gojira is 2005 too.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

I think Boris and Akercocke were too. Someone correct me (with a whip preferrably)

 

[JayKeeley]

That Battle of Mice sample on their website is fucking godawful. Majestikkk Moose should love it.

 

[Eminor]

I know that Southern Lord's Pink came out well into '06, but I'm not sure how early it was available prior to that. Very good album.

 

[Nate The Great]

Decibel bases everything off US release dates. Retards . . .

 

[JayKeeley]

That Nachtmystium sounds glorious I must say. I might even be tempted to buy it, based on the samples I heard and the reviews I read.

 

[Nate The Great]

It is splendid. Indeed!

 

[JayKeeley]

It is splendid. Indeed!

Just not good enough to make your top 25 though. Tell me why.

 

[Nate The Great]

Just not good enough to make your top 25 though. Tell me why.

To be honest, I just haven't listened to it enough to truthfully place it on that list. I've probably only heard it 6 or 7 times, and it will definitely grab your attention from the first listen. But it is something that will also take lots of listens to fully grasp. I just couldn't put it on my list with so little understanding of it. There are usually a handful of albums like that for me every year. However, a few years down the road they are the ones I still listen to. Another album like that for me this year was Boris 'Pink' . . . and Antaeus 'Blood Libel'.

I might have an extra promo of 'Instinctecay" if you want it.

 

[Furious B]

I think Boris and

Will someone PLEASE for the love of lucifer post a sample of this shit. People talk about these guys all the time and I can't find any music anywhere. Rock. \m/

 

[Eminor]

Here's a track from Pink. It's not the most representative track--nearly all of the rest of the album is much more upbeat.

http://www.southernlord.com/mp3/Boris%20- 01 - Farewell.mp3

 

[Nate The Great]

Pink is awesome . . . but fookin' weird and wild.