The Best Metal Albums of 2006

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Heavenly Virus	Nov 13, 2006	91.2	99	5
2	Kamelot One Cold Winter's Night [Live]	Oct 30, 2006	94.3	30	2
3	Dream Theater Score: 20th Anniversary World Tour [Live]	Aug 29, 2006	92.6	38	5
4	Vanden Plas Christ 0	Mar 31, 2006	92.4	34	5
5	Tool 10,000 Days	May 2, 2006	92.2	31	0
6	Mastodon Blood Mountain	Sep 15, 2006	92.9	21	1
7	Kalmah The Black Waltz	Feb 22, 2006	89.6	42	2
8	Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies	Nov 21, 2006	90.7	30	0
9	Galneryus Beyond the End of Despair...	Jul 12, 2006	88.4	47	8
10	Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	Aug 8, 2006	90.3	28	0
11	Persefone Core	Aug 26, 2006	91.1	23	3
12	Insomnium Above the Weeping World	Sep 18, 2006	89.8	31	2
13	Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks	Jun 12, 2006	89.8	30	2
14	All That Remains The Fall of Ideals	Jul 11, 2006	89.4	31	0
15	Proclamation Advent of the Black Omen	Jun 2006	93.5	12	1
16	Dark Lunacy The Diarist	Mar 22, 2006	89.8	26	4
17	Amorphis Eclipse	Feb 10, 2006	90.9	20	0
18	Lamb of God Sacrament	Aug 22, 2006	87.7	41	1
19	Anti The Insignificance of Life	2006	88.7	29	3
20	Guttural Secrete Reek of Pubescent Despoilment	Jun 6, 2006	93.1	10	1
21	Envy Insomniac Doze	Aug 22, 2006	98.3	3	0
22	Dragonland Astronomy	Nov 13, 2006	89.2	24	6
23	Edguy Rocket Ride	Jan 20, 2006	87.3	37	4
24	Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn	Oct 13, 2006	90.6	17	3
25	Mercenary The Hours That Remain	Aug 21, 2006	90.5	17	1
26	Cannibal Corpse Kill	Mar 21, 2006	86.3	44	0
27	Skinless Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead	Jun 13, 2006	91.5	13	0
28	Rhapsody Live in Canada 2005 - the Dark Secret [Live]	Jan 23, 2006	90.2	17	1
29	Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun	Apr 26, 2006	87.2	34	2
30	Peste Noire La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence	Aug 2, 2006	88.7	24	2
31	Negura Bunget OM	Oct 27, 2006	89.2	21	0
32	Archgoat Whore of Bethlehem	Sep 9, 2006	89.6	19	1
33	Benighted Identisick	Jan 13, 2006	91.5	12	1
34	In Flames Come Clarity	Feb 7, 2006	84.5	58	3
35	Summoning Oath Bound	Mar 31, 2006	88.3	24	2
36	Outworld Outworld	Nov 13, 2006	89.5	17	0
37	Bloodboil Festering Fornication	Sep 30, 2006	91.1	11	1
38	Deiphago Satanik Eon	Nov 2006	96.7	3	0
39	Hammerfall Threshold	Oct 20, 2006	88.7	19	2
40	Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea	Sep 29, 2006	87.8	22	2
41	Drudkh Кров у наших криницях (Blood in Our Wells)	Mar 23, 2006	90.4	12	2
42	Trivium The Crusade	Oct 10, 2006	86	33	3
43	Nightwish End of an Era [Live]	Jun 2, 2006	90	13	1
44	Axamenta Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture	May 26, 2006	91	10	0
45	Meshuggah Nothing	Oct 31, 2006	88.7	17	0
46	Anthem Immortal	Aug 30, 2006	91	10	0
47	Children Of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout Live [Live]	Oct 11, 2006	87.6	21	1
48	Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side	Sep 22, 2006	88.4	17	1
49	Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death	Aug 28, 2006	83.8	49	8
50	The Gathering Home	Apr 18, 2006	91.1	9	1

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