The Best Metal Albums of 2006

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Heavenly Virus	Nov 13, 2006	91.1	96	5
2	Kamelot One Cold Winter's Night [Live]	Oct 30, 2006	94.5	28	2
3	Tool 10,000 Days	May 2, 2006	93.9	26	0
4	Dream Theater Score: 20th Anniversary World Tour [Live]	Aug 29, 2006	92.3	37	4
5	Vanden Plas Christ 0	Mar 31, 2006	92.5	33	5
6	Mastodon Blood Mountain	Sep 15, 2006	93.4	18	1
7	Kalmah The Black Waltz	Feb 22, 2006	89.3	41	2
8	Galneryus Beyond the End of Despair...	Jul 12, 2006	88.6	45	7
9	Insomnium Above the Weeping World	Sep 18, 2006	90.2	30	1
10	Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks	Jun 12, 2006	90	29	2
11	Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies	Nov 21, 2006	90.1	28	0
12	Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	Aug 8, 2006	89.9	27	1
13	Dark Lunacy The Diarist	Mar 22, 2006	90	25	3
14	All That Remains The Fall of Ideals	Jul 11, 2006	89.1	30	0
15	Proclamation Advent of the Black Omen	Jun 2006	93.8	10	1
16	Persefone Core	Aug 26, 2006	90.6	20	2
17	Drudkh Кров у наших криницях (Blood in Our Wells)	Mar 23, 2006	92.7	11	1
18	Anti The Insignificance of Life	2006	88.8	27	3
19	Envy Insomniac Doze	Aug 22, 2006	98.3	3	0
20	Edguy Rocket Ride	Jan 20, 2006	87.4	36	4
21	Mercenary The Hours That Remain	Aug 21, 2006	90.9	16	1
22	Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn	Oct 13, 2006	90.6	17	3
23	Guttural Secrete Reek of Pubescent Despoilment	Jun 6, 2006	93.8	8	1
24	Dragonland Astronomy	Nov 13, 2006	89.2	23	6
25	Benighted Identisick	Jan 13, 2006	92	12	1
26	Lamb of God Sacrament	Aug 22, 2006	87.1	37	0
27	Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun	Apr 26, 2006	87.5	32	1
28	Rhapsody Live in Canada 2005 - the Dark Secret [Live]	Jan 23, 2006	90.2	17	1
29	Negura Bunget OM	Oct 27, 2006	89.2	21	0
30	In Flames Come Clarity	Feb 7, 2006	84.9	56	3
31	Skinless Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead	Jun 13, 2006	91.9	11	0
32	Summoning Oath Bound	Mar 31, 2006	88.3	24	2
33	Cannibal Corpse Kill	Mar 21, 2006	86	40	0
34	Peste Noire La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence	Aug 2, 2006	88.1	23	2
35	The Gathering Home	Apr 18, 2006	92.5	8	1
36	Outworld Outworld	Nov 13, 2006	89.5	16	0
37	Deiphago Satanik Eon	Nov 2006	96.7	3	0
38	Amorphis Eclipse	Feb 10, 2006	90	14	0
39	Bloodboil Festering Fornication	Sep 30, 2006	91.3	10	1
40	Nightwish End of an Era [Live]	Jun 2, 2006	90.5	12	1
41	Trivium The Crusade	Oct 10, 2006	86.8	28	2
42	Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea	Sep 29, 2006	87.8	22	2
43	Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side	Sep 22, 2006	89	16	1
44	Axamenta Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture	May 26, 2006	91	10	0
45	Anthem Immortal	Aug 30, 2006	91	10	0
46	Archgoat Whore of Bethlehem	Sep 9, 2006	88.8	16	1
47	Hammerfall Threshold	Oct 20, 2006	88.4	16	1
48	Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death	Aug 28, 2006	83.7	47	9
49	All Shall Perish The Price of Existence	Aug 8, 2006	85.8	28	2
50	Gorod Leading Vision	Aug 22, 2006	91.7	7	1

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