Poll: What Was The Best Rock & Metal Album Of 2006?

The Acacia Strain – The Dead Walk

Agalloch – Ashes Against the Grain

Ahab – The Call of the Wretched Sea

Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

All Shall Perish – The Price of Existence

All That Remains – The Fall of Ideals

Amon Amarth – With Oden on Our Side

Amorphis – Eclipse

Anata – The Conductor’s Departure

Angra – Aurora Consurgens

Arsis – United in Regret

As Blood Runs Black – Allegiance

Atreyu – A Death-Grip on Yesterday

Audioslave – Revelations

Black Label Society – Shot to Hell

Blinded Colony – Bedtime Prayers

Blind Guardian – A Twist in the Myth

Body Count – Murder 4 Hire

Borknagar – Origin

Breaking Benjamin – Phobia

Bring Me the Horizon – Count Your Blessings

Buckethead – Crime Slunk Scene

Buckethead – The Elephant Man’s Alarm Clock

Caliban – The Undying Darkness

Cannibal Corpse – Kill

Cattle Decapitation – Karma.Bloody.Karma

Cellador – Enter Deception

Celtic Frost – Monotheist

Chrome Division – Doomsday Rock ‘n Roll

Converge – No Heroes

Cradle of Filth – Thornography

Darkthrone – The Cult Is Alive

Daughters – Hell Songs

Dead to Fall – The Phoenix Throne

Decapitated – Organic Hallucinosis

Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist

Deicide – The Stench of Redemption

The Devil Wears Prada – Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord

Diablo Swing Orchestra – The Butcher’s Ballroom

Disarmonia Mundi – Mind Tricks

Dissection – Reinkaos

Dismember – The God That Never Was

DragonForce – Inhuman Rampage

Dream Evil – United

Dream Theater – Score

Drudkh – Blood in Our Wells

Dry Kill Logic – Of Vengeance and Violence

Edguy – Rocket Ride

Eluveitie – Spirit

Enslaved – Ruun

Evanescence – The Open Door

Evergrey – Monday Morning Apocalypse

The Faceless – Akeldama

Ghoul – Splatterthrash

God Dethroned – The Toxic Touch

Godsmack – IV

Gorod – Leading Vision

Grave – As Rapture Comes

HammerFall – Threshold

The Haunted – The Dead Eye

Hatebreed – Supremacy

Heaven Shall Burn – Deaf to Our Prayers

Himsa – Hail Horror

The Human Abstract – Nocturne

Ihsahn – The Adversary

Illdisposed – Burn Me Wicked

In Flames – Come Clarity

Insomnium – Above the Weeping World

Into Eternity – The Scattering of Ashes

Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death

ISIS – In the Absence of Truth

It Dies Today – Sirens

Jesu – Silver

Kalmah – The Black Waltz

Kataklysm – In the Arms of Devastation

Katatonia – The Great Cold Distance

Killing Joke – Hosannas from the Basements of Hell

Killswitch Engage – As Daylight Dies

Krisiun – AssassiNation

Kylesa – Time Will Fuse Its Worth

Lacuna Coil – Karmacode

Lamb of God – Sacrament

Light This City – Facing the Thousand

Lordi – The Arockalypse

Martyr – Feeding the Abscess

Mastodon – Blood Mountain

Melechesh – Emissaries

Mercenary – The Hours That Remain

Metal Church – A Light in the Dark

Ministry – Rio Grande Blood

Misery Index – Discordia

Misery Signals – Mirrors

Moonspell – Memorial

Motörhead – Kiss of Death

Mushroomhead – Savior Sorrow

My Dying Bride – A Line of Deathless Kings

myGRAIN – Orbit Dance

Napalm Death – Smear Campaign

Necrophobic – Hrimthursum

Nocturnal Rites – Grand Illusion

Norma Jean – Redeemer

Norther – Till Death Unites Us

OSI – Free

Outworld – Outworld

P.O.D. – Testify

Phobia – Cruel

Prototype – Continuum

Psycroptic – Symbols of Failure

Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime II

Raunchy – Death Pop Romance

Red – End of Silence

Red Sparowes – Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun

Russian Circles – Enter

Sabaton – Attero Dominatus

Sadus – Out for Blood

Satyricon – Now, Diabolical

Scar Symmetry – Pitch Black Progress

Sepultura – Dante XXI

SikTh – Death of a Dead Day

Skinless – Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead

Skid Row – Revolutions per Minute

Slayer – Christ Illusion

Sodom – Sodom

Solefald – Black for Death: An Icelandic Odyssey, Pt. 2

Solitude Aeturnus – Alone

Spawn of Possession – Noctambulant

Strapping Young Lad – The New Black

Stone Sour – Come What(ever) May

Summoning – Oath Bound

Suidakra – Caledonia

Sunn O))) – Altar

Sworn Enemy – The Beginning of the End

The Sword – Age of Winters

Theatre of Tragedy – Storm

Terrorizer – Darker Days Ahead

Textures – Drawing Circles

Threat Signal – Under Reprisal

Three Days Grace – One-X

Tool – 10,000 Days

Trivium – The Crusade

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

Walls of Jericho – With Devils Amongst Us All

Warbringer – One By One, The Wicked Fall

Witchery – Don’t Fear the Reaper