2006 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2006.
Newly formed bands
- 1000mods
- A Band of Orcs
- Abandon All Ships
- Adelitas Way
- All Hail the Yeti
- Almah
- Altar of Plagues
- Amberian Dawn
- American Me
- Ancestors
- Ancient Bards
- Thy Art Is Murder
- Arven
- Asking Alexandria
- Beastwars
- Bison B.C.
- Black Breath
- Black Veil Brides
- Blood Ceremony
- Bloodsoaked
- Brymir
- Bury Tomorrow
- Cannabis Corpse
- Castevet
- Cauldron
- Cerebral Bore
- Circle of Contempt
- Coldworker
- Conan
- Daughtry
- Den Saakaldte
- Dethklok
- The Devil's Blood
- Diabulus in Musica
- Divide the Sea
- Dragged into Sunlight
- Elder
- Elysion
- Fen
- Forever Storm
- Ghost
- Graveyard
- Hail of Bullets
- Hellyeah
- I
- Nekrogoblikon
- Oceano
- Pathfinder
- Revocation
- Scars on Broadway
- Sister
- Skull Fist
- Stone Gods
- Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky[1]
- UnSun
- Van Canto
- Vola
- Whitechapel
- Winterfylleth
Reformed bands
- Alcatrazz
- Alice in Chains
- Atheist
- Carnivore
- Emperor (for a few shows)
- Extreme (for a few shows)
- Immortal
- Myrkskog (for a one-off show. they are now defunct)
- Pitchshifter
- Sir Lord Baltimore
Disbandments
- Burning My Abigail
- Cold (reformed in 2009)
- Crashdïet
- Dissection
- Fear Factory
- Full Scale (reformed in 2009)
- Limp Bizkit (on hiatus until 2009)
- Myrkskog
- Peccatum
- System of a Down (on hiatus)
- Terrorizer
Events
- 20 May – Lordi wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 for Finland with the song Hard Rock Hallelujah in Athens, Greece.[2]
- 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.
- Body Count releases their first album in nine years, Murder 4 Hire. The album features the band's new line-up: Bendrix (rhythm guitar), Vincent Price (bass), and O.T. (drums).
- Best Metal Performancecategory at the 49th Grammy Awards.
- Extreme reunite for a second time – now with their "classic" original line-up – to do a small three-show reunion tour in New England.
- 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 12, 2006, due to illness and is replaced by Martin Axenrot.
- Metalocalypse airs on the Adult Swim network.
- Mercenary bassist/vocalist Henrik "Kral" Andersen leaves in March and is replaced by René Pedersen.
- Visions of Atlantis keyboardist Miro Holly quits and is replaced by Martin Harb.
- 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.
- Iggor Cavalera leaves Sepulturadue to "artistic incompatibility".
Albums released
January
Day | Artist | Album |
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9 | DragonForce | Inhuman Rampage |
10 | Bleeding Through | The Truth |
Kayo Dot | Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue | |
20 | Edguy | Rocket Ride |
24 | Demiricous | One (Hellbound) |
Nocturnal Rites | Grand Illusion | |
P.O.D. | Testify | |
Sworn Enemy | The Beginning of the End | |
25 | Norther | Till Death Unites Us |
30 | The Devin Townsend Band
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Synchestra |
Psycroptic | Symbols of Failure |
February
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | In Flames | Come Clarity |
5 | Warbringer | One By One, The Wicked Fall (EP) |
7 | Hank Williams III | Straight to Hell |
Akercocke | Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone | |
Decapitated | Organic Hallucinosis | |
Himsa | Hail Horror
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Mastodon | Call of the Mastodon | |
14 | The Sword | Age of Winters |
Bullet for My Valentine | The Poison (USA Release) | |
15 | Amorphis | Eclipse |
Ensiferum | Dragonheads (EP)
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17 | Buckethead | The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock |
20 | Dismember | The God That Never Was |
Raunchy | Death Pop Romance | |
21 | Kataklysm | In the Arms of Devastation |
Krisiun | AssassiNation | |
Wicked Wisdom | Wicked Wisdom | |
22 | Kalmah | The Black Waltz |
27 | Caliban | The Undying Darkness |
Darkthrone | The Cult Is Alive | |
Sadus | Out For Blood | |
Witchery | Don't Fear the Reaper
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March
Day | Artist | Album |
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10 | Lordi | The Arockalypse |
13 | Katatonia | The Great Cold Distance |
Sepultura | Dante XXI | |
18 | Machinae Supremacy | Redeemer |
21 | Cannibal Corpse | Kill |
23 | Drudkh | Blood in Our Wells |
24 | Oomph! | GlaubeLiebeTod |
28 | Atreyu
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A Death-Grip on Yesterday |
Phobia
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Cruel | |
31 | Queensrÿche | Operation: Mindcrime II |
Lacuna Coil | Karmacode | |
Summoning | Oath Bound |
April
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | The Slot | Две войны (Two wars) |
4 | Dead to Fall | The Phoenix Throne |
Evergrey | Monday Morning Apocalypse
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Sonata Arctica | For the Sake of Revenge (Live Album) | |
19 | myGRAIN | Orbit Dance |
21 | OSI | Free |
Scar Symmetry | Pitch Black Progress | |
25 | Godsmack | IV |
Moonspell | Memorial | |
Summoning | Oath Bound | |
30 | Dissection | Reinkaos |
May
Day | Artist | Album |
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2 | Enslaved | Ruun |
Ministry | Rio Grande Blood | |
Place of Skulls | The Black Is Never Far | |
Silent Civilian | Rebirth of the Temple | |
Tool | 10,000 Days | |
8 | Beyond Fear | Beyond Fear |
9 | Visceral Bleeding | Absorbing the Disarray |
12 | Sodom | Sodom |
16 | The Autumn Offering | Embrace the Gutter |
Misery Index | Discordia | |
Russian Circles | Enter | |
Zyklon | Disintegrate | |
19 | Communic | Waves of Visual Decay |
22 | Cataract | Kingdom |
Necrophobic | Hrimthursum | |
23 | Prototype | Continuum |
26 | Threat Signal | Under Reprisal
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27 | The Red Shore | Salvaging What's Left (EP)
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29 | Celtic Frost | Monotheist |
June
July
Day | Artist | Album |
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4 | Spawn of Possession | Noctambulant |
10 | A Band Called Pain | Broken Dreams |
Behemoth | Demonica (Box-set) | |
24-7 Spyz | Face the Day | |
11 | All That Remains | The Fall of Ideals |
Cattle Decapitation | Karma.Bloody.Karma | |
Strapping Young Lad | The New Black | |
21 | Chrome Division | Doomsday Rock 'n Roll |
25 | From a Second Story Window | Delenda |
Grave | As Rapture Comes | |
Voivod | Katorz | |
28 | Sabaton | Attero Dominatus |
August
September
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Blind Guardian | A Twist in the Myth |
5 | Alice in Chains | The Essential Alice in Chains (Compilation) |
Heaven Shall Burn | Deaf to Our Prayers | |
Vader | Impressions in Blood | |
11 | Mastodon | Blood Mountain |
12 | Black Label Society | Shot to Hell |
Norma Jean | Redeemer | |
15 | Buckethead | Crime Slunk Scene |
Napalm Death | Smear Campaign | |
18 | WarCry | La Quinta Esencia |
19 | Diecast | Internal Revolution
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Dry Kill Logic | Of Vengeance and Violence
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Light This City | Facing the Thousand | |
Mushroomhead | Savior Sorrow | |
Red Sparowes | Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun | |
Suffocation | Suffocation | |
22 | Amon Amarth | With Oden on Our Side |
Týr | Ragnarok | |
25 | Into Eternity | The Scattering of Ashes |
Rhapsody of Fire | Triumph or Agony |
October
Day | Artist | Album |
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3 | Bourbon Crow | Highway to Hangovers |
Evanescence | The Open Door | |
Skillet | Comatose | |
9 | My Dying Bride | A Line of Deathless Kings |
10 | Ahab | The Call of the Wretched Sea |
Trivium | The Crusade | |
11 | Solitude Aeturnus | Alone |
13 | Dream Evil | United |
16 | Sturmgeist | Über |
Sylosis | Casting Shadows (EP)
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Textures | Drawing Circles | |
17 | Cradle of Filth | Thornography |
It Dies Today | Sirens | |
18 | HammerFall | Threshold |
Solefald | Black for Death: An Icelandic Odyssey, Pt. 2 | |
23 | Angra | Aurora Consurgens |
Krux | II
| |
24 | Beto Vázquez Infinity | Flying Towards the New Horizon |
Paul Stanley | Live to Win | |
Skid Row | Revolutions per Minute | |
25 | Europe | Secret Society |
30 | Borknagar | Origin |
The Haunted | The Dead Eye | |
Melechesh | Emissaries | |
Kylesa | Time Will Fuse Its Worth | |
31 | God Dethroned | The Toxic Touch |
ISIS | In the Absence of Truth | |
Martyr | Feeding the Abscess |
November
Day | Artist | Album |
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2 | Decadence | 3rd Stage of Decay |
7 | Arsis | United in Regret |
13 | Outworld | Outworld
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14 | The Faceless | Akeldama
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17 | Rammstein | Völkerball (CD/DVD) |
Suidakra | Caledonia | |
21 | Killswitch Engage | As Daylight Dies |
22 | Sentenced | Buried Alive (Live CD) |
December
Day | Artist | Album |
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1 | Oomph! | Delikatessen
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6 | This Ending | Inside the Machine |
20 | Blinded Colony
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Bedtime Prayers |
See also
References
- About.com. The New York Times Company. Archived from the originalon May 27, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
- ^ "Hard rock hallelujah: Finnish rockers Lordi win Eurovision Song Contest". New York Times. May 22, 2006. Retrieved November 29, 2018.