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

Did anyone else forget just how unhinged 2006 was for rock and metal? Because laying it all out feels less like nostalgia and more like staring into an impossibly stacked festival lineup that somehow lasted an entire year.

Across metalcore, death metal, black metal, prog, sludge, hard rock and mainstream alt, 2006 wasn’t just strong — it was absurdly deep. Established legends dropped late-career classics, underground scenes exploded into the mainstream, and future headliners announced themselves with albums that still dominate playlists, pits and “best of” debates nearly two decades later.

Which brings us to the impossible question: what was the best rock or metal album of 2006? Vote below and we’ll tally up the results in a big ol’ list next Tuesday!

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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

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

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