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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2006. Heavy metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Newly formed bands Dethklok is a virtual death metal band that stars in the television show Metalocalypse. ...
The Devil Wears Prada may refer to: The Devil Wears Prada (novel), the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger. ...
Reformed Bands Carnivore in 1985 Carnivore was a thrash metal band formed by Peter Steele (later of Type O Negative fame), and was formed out of the ruins of the Brooklyn hard rock group Fallout. ...
Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway. ...
Alice in Chains is a popular and influential rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987. ...
A Pitch shifter is an effect that changes the pitch of an audio signal in real time. ...
Albums The Acacia Strain is a four-piece metalcore band based out of Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA. The band is currently signed to Prosthetic Records. ...
The Dead Walk is the third album by Metalcore/Deathcore band The Acacia Strain, released in 2006. ...
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Ashes Against The Grain is a recently-released album by American metal band Agalloch under the Brooklyn, New York-based label, The End Records. ...
Agoraphobic Nosebleed (abbreviated as ANb) is a grindcore band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. ...
PCP Torpedo/ANbRX a. ...
Alice in Chains is a popular and influential rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987. ...
The Essential Alice in Chains is a 2 CD compilation album by Alice in Chains. ...
All That Remains are a metalcore band from Springfield, Massachusetts. ...
The Fall of Ideals is the third studio album by All That Remains, released on July 11, 2006. ...
Amon Amarth is a viking-themed melodic death metal band from Sweden founded in 1990 in Tumba, named after a location in J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth. ...
With Oden on Our Side is an album by the melodic death metal band Amon Amarth. ...
This article is about the heavy metal band Angra. ...
Aurora Consurgens is an album by the power metal band Angra. ...
Arsis is an American death metal band whose music also possesses influences of black metal and thrash metal. ...
United in Regret is the second full length album released by the Melodic Death metal band Arsis. ...
Atreyu (IPA: /ə.tɹeɪ.yu/) is a Metalcore band formed in Orange County, California in 1998. ...
A Death Grip on Yesterday is the third album from the band Atreyu. ...
Beto Vazquez Infinity is a Argentinian Metal band from Buenos Aires, originally assembled in 2000. ...
Flying Towards the new Horizon is the second full-length album by Beto Vázquez Infinity, released the 24 of October of 2006. ...
Behemoth is an influential Polish blackened death metal band. ...
Demonica is a retrospective two-disc boxset includes legendary demos plus never released and re-recorded songs from Behemoths old school days. ...
Heavy metal-band started in March, 2005 by Tim Owens. ...
Selftitled debut album from Beyond Fear, a new heavy metal band formed by Iced Earth/ex-Judas Priest vocalist Tim Owens, released on May 8 2006 [edit] Track listing Scream Machine – 5:33 And. ...
Black Label Society is a heavy metal band formed by Zakk Wylde, with 9 albums released to date. ...
Shot to Hell is a heavy metal album by the band Black Label Society. ...
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A Twist in the Myth is the eighth studio album by the German power metal band Blind Guardian. ...
Borknagar is a progressive metal band from Bergen, Norway founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. ...
Origin is Borknagars seventh studio album, and is primarily acoustic. ...
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Count Your Blessings is the debut album from Sheffield deathcore band, Bring Me The Horizon. ...
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band founded in 1988. ...
Kill is the tenth LP album by the American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, released on March 21, 2006. ...
Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990. ...
Fuck You All!!!! is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Carpathian Forest. ...
Catamenia is one of Finlands best known melodic black metal bands, founded in 1995 by original members Riku Hopeakoski and Mika Tönning in Oulu, Finland. ...
Look up Catherine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Catherine is a womans given name, derived from a Greek word (katharos) meaning pure. It is one of the most common names given. ...
Cattle Decapitation, currently signed to Metal Blade Records, is a San Diego, California-based deathgrind band. ...
Karma. ...
Cellador are a Power Metal band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed by guitarist Chris Petersen in 2003. ...
Enter Deception is the debut full length album of the Power Metal band Cellador. ...
Celtic Frost is a highly influential extreme metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, best known for their influence on the thrash, black, doom and death metal genres. ...
Monotheism (in Greek monon = single and Theos = God) is the belief in a single, universal, all-encompassing deity. ...
Cradle of Filth is a heavy metal band formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. ...
Thornography is the latest album from Cradle of Filth released through Roadrunner Records on October 11, 2006 in JAPAN with 13 tracks. ...
Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1986. ...
The Cult Is Alive is the twelfth album by Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone. ...
Decapitated are a technical death metal band from Poland; their style places them towards the more extreme and technical side of that genre. ...
Organic Hallucinosis is the fourth album by the Polish death metal band Decapitated. ...
Def Leppard are an English hard rock band from Sheffield who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ...
Album by Def Leppard with cover versions of 70ties rock hits. ...
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Deicide is an North American Death metal band. ...
The Stench of Redemption is the 8th studio album by Deicide. ...
Dismember is a Swedish death metal band. ...
The God That Never Was is the seventh album by Dismember. ...
Dissection was a well-known Swedish black metal band formed in 1989 by guitarist and vocalist Jon Nödtveidt. ...
Reinkaos is the third album by the Swedish blackened death metal band Dissection. ...
DragonForce are a British power metal band formed in London, England in 1999. ...
Alternate Cover Re-release cover Inhuman Rampage is DragonForces third album, released on January 9, 2006 and released in North America on June 20, 2006. ...
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band comprised of James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy. ...
DVD Cover Score is a 3CD/2DVD combination by progressive metal band Dream Theater. ...
Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany. ...
Rocket ride is the upcoming full-length Edguy album set to be released sometime in Q1 2006. ...
Ensiferum (Latin ensÄfÄ•rum (neuter adjective) meaning sword bearing) is a Viking / Folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland. ...
Dragonheads is an EP by the Finnish viking / folk metal Ensiferum. ...
Enslaved is a progressive black/viking metal band from Haugesund, Norway. ...
Ruun is the ninth full-length album by Enslaved. ...
Evergrey is a Progressive Metal/Power Metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. ...
Monday Morning Apocalypse is the sixth studio album from the Progressive Power metal band Evergrey. ...
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The Always Open Mouth is the third album by the Colorado band Fear Before the March of Flames. ...
From A Second Story Window is a metal/death metal band from Pennsylvania. ...
Delenda is the first full length album by the mathcore band From a Second Story Window. ...
Ghoul is an extreme metal band from the fictional hamlet of Creepsylvania, with members claiming to be mutants and monsters, recording thrash metal onto wax cylinders provided by the towns Curio Shoppe owner, the mysterious Mr. ...
An album released June of 2006 by Ghoul. ...
Godsmack are an American grammy-nominated heavy metal band from Massachusetts formed in 1996. ...
IV may refer to: The Roman number for four — meaning one (I) less than five (V). ...
Grave is a Swedish (Visby) death metal band. ...
As Rapture Comes is the seventh by Swedish death metal band Grave, to be released in July 2006. ...
Joacim Cans HammerFall is a Swedish power metal band assembled in 1993. ...
The 6th HammerFall studio album, released on October 18, 2006 in Europe and October 31, 2006 in the United States. ...
Heaven Shall Burn (named after the Marduk album of the same name) is a deathcore/metalcore band from Saalfeld, Germany. ...
Deaf to Our Prayers is the fourth full-length album of the band Heaven Shall Burn. ...
// Himsa is an American metalcore band hailing from Seattle, Washington. ...
First off, If you listen to In Flames you kick ass In Flames is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1990. ...
Come Clarity is an album by In Flames, which was released on February 3, 2006 in Europe through Nuclear Blast Records and February 7 in the U.S through Ferret Records. ...
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A Matter of Life and Death is the 14th studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. ...
Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. ...
In the Arms of Devastation is the eighth non-live LP by the Canadian Death Metal band Kataklysm. ...
Killswitch Engage (often abbreviated as KSE or Killswitch) are a Metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts. ...
As Daylight Dies is the fourth studio album by Massachusetts metalcore quintet Killswitch Engage. ...
Krisiun is a Technical Brutal Death metal band from Brazil, formed in 1990 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. ...
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Krux is a Swedish doom metal band, created by Leif Edling. ...
II is the second album of the doom metal-project Krux. ...
Lacuna Coil is an alternative metal/gothic metal band from Milan, Italy. ...
Karmacode is the fourth full-length album by Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil, released on March 31st, 2006 in several countries in Europe, April 3rd in the UK and other European countries, April 4th in North America, and April 5th in several other European countries. ...
Lamb of God is a Grammy-nominated five-piece metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formerly known as Burn the Priest. ...
Sacrament is the fourth studio album from the American metal band Lamb of God. ...
Lordi is a hard rock / heavy metal band from Finland, and winner of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. ...
The Arockalypse is an album by Lordi. ...
Mastodon is a Grammy-nominated[1] band from Atlanta, Georgia. ...
Call Of The Mastodon Call Of the Mastodon is a compilation of early songs from the heavy metal group, Mastodon (band), released February 7, 2006 on Relapse Records. ...
Blood Mountain is the third full length studio album by metal band Mastodon. ...
Misery Index is a deathgrind band formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by Jason Netherton (bass, vocals), Mike Harrison (guitar, vocals) and Kevin Talley (drums). ...
Discordia is the second album by Maryland death metal band Misery Index. ...
Misery Signals is a melodic hardcore band formed in Wisconsin in 2002. ...
A mirror is a reflective surface that is smooth enough to form an image. ...
Moonspell is a Portuguese Gothic Metal band, formed in 1992 and released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before of the release of their first album Wolfheart. ...
Memorial is Moonspells seventh full-length album, released on April 24, 2006 by SPV. The album is available in three versions - a standard edition, a limited digipack edition with the Atlantic bonus track, and the Portuguese edition which is the standard version with the Phantom North bonus track. ...
Motörhead are a Grammy Award-winning British heavy metal band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy (real name Ian Kilmister), who has remained the sole constant member. ...
Kiss of Death is the title of the 19th studio album by heavy metal band Motörhead, released on August 29 via Sanctuary Records. ...
Mushroomhead is an American band from Cleveland, Ohio. ...
Savior Sorrow (Also spelled SaVIor Sorrow, in the development stages of the album) is the sixth studio album release, and the follow-up to 2003s XIII from the Cleveland, Ohio based alternative metal band Mushroomhead. ...
My Dying Bride is a British doom/death metal band formed in 1990. ...
A Line of Deathless Kings is the ninth studio album by My Dying Bride. ...
Napalm Death is a grindcore/death metal band formed in the village of Meriden near Birmingham, England in 1982 by Nicholas Bullen and Miles Ratledge. ...
A smear campaign or smear tactics are deliberate attempts by an individual or group to malign another individual or groups reputation. ...
Necrophobic is a Swedish death metal band formed in 1989 by drummer Joakim Sterner and guitarist David Parland. ...
Hrimthursum is the fifth full-length album of Swedish black-death metal band Necrophobic. ...
Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic power metal band formed in 1996 in the town of Kitee. ...
Highest Hopes is the third compilation album by Nightwish. ...
Outworld is a progressive metal band that was formed in 1997 by Rusty Cooley. ...
Outworld (Mortal Kombat: Deception) Outworld is a realm in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ...
Stanley Harvey Eisen (born January 20, 1952, Queens, New York) known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American Hard rock guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Kiss. ...
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ...
Live to Win is the forthcoming solo album from KISS vocalist/guitarist and co-founder Paul Stanley. ...
A phobia (from the Greek φόβος fear), is an irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. ...
Cruelty is indifference to suffering and even positive pleasure in inflicting it. ...
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Testify is rap metal band P.O.D.s sixth studio album, fourth major-label album, originally for release in December 2005 but finally slated for a January 24, 2006 release by Atlantic Records. ...
A Pitch shifter is an effect that changes the pitch of an audio signal in real time. ...
A strictly limited edition EP of new material written in secret by the British industrial metal band Pitchshifter. ...
Queensrÿche (pronounced IPA: ) is a heavy/progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle. ...
Rammstein is a German industrial metal band. ...
Völkerball (German for Peoples ball or Dodge ball) is the German NDH-metal band Rammsteins live album/DVD set. ...
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Triumph or Agony is a Rhapsody of Fire album released in Europe on September 25th 2006. ...
Robert Bartleh Cummings (born January 12, 1965 ) [1]), better known as Rob Zombie, is an American heavy metal, groove metal and industrial rock musician, director, and writer. ...
Educated Horses is the third album by Rob Zombie, released on March 28, 2006. ...
Rotten Sound is a finnish grindcore band formed in 1993. ...
Consume to Contaminate is a 2006 EP by Finnish band Rotten Sound. ...
Runemagick is a Swedish doom death metal band. ...
Invocation of Magick is the ninth album by Runemagick. ...
Sabaton is a power metal band from Sweden formed in 1999. ...
Attero Dominatus is the third album by Swedish power metal band Sabaton. ...
Sadus is a highly technical thrash metal trio from the United States. ...
Out for Blood is the fifth full-length album by Sadus. ...
Sepultura is a Brazilian thrash metal band, formed in 1984. ...
Dante XXI is a concept album by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura. ...
Shadows Fall are a five-piece metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts. ...
Fallout from the War is a music CD from the band Shadows Fall. ...
Skid Row is an American heavy metal band which became the hair metal prototypes of the late 1980s metal scene and were reasonably successful until they were eclipsed by the Seattle grunge bands in 1991. ...
Revolutions Per Minute is the fifth full-length studio album by Skid Row. ...
Skinless is a deathgrind band formed in 1992. ...
Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead (2006) is the 4th studio album from death metal band Skinless and first to feature new singer Jason Keyser. ...
Slayer is an American thrash metal band founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. ...
Christ Illusion is the tenth studio album by Slayer, which was released on August 8, 2006 on American Recordings. ...
A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. ...
Sodom is a German thrash metal band formed in 1981. ...
Sodom is the self-titled album by German thrash metal band Sodom released on 21 April 2006. ...
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are Lazare Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. ...
Solitude Aeturnus is an American doom metal band that was started in 1987 as Solitude. ...
Alone is the sixth album by the US doom metal band Solitude Aeturnus. ...
Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. ...
For the Sake of Revenge is a live album recorded by the Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica. ...
Stone Sour is a Grammy-nominated American melodic hard rock band founded by Corey Taylor, famous for being the vocalist for the nu metal band Slipknot, and former drummer Joel Ekman. ...
Alternate Cover Special Edition cover Come What(ever) May is the second album from post-grunge/hard rock band Stone Sour. ...
Spawn of Possession is a brutal technical death metal band from Kalmar, Sweden, which was founded in 1997. ...
Noctambulant is the second album by the Swedish technical death metal band Spawn of Possession. ...
Strapping Young Lad is an influential progressive extreme metal band from Canada, started by Devin Townsend in 1994. ...
_____ is the new black is a catch phrase and snowclone used to indicate the sudden popularity or versatility of an idea at the expense of the popularity of a second idea. ...
Stratovarius is a Finnish power metal band, formed in 1984, still active today. ...
// Biography Beginnings In 2003, Cornelius Jakhelln began working on a new band. ...
Ãœber is the second full-length album by Norwegian experimental black/thrash band Sturmgeist. ...
Suffocation is an American death metal band. ...
Suffocation is an album by the US death metal band Suffocation. ...
Summoning is an Austrian epic/atmospheric black metal band. ...
Oath Bound is the sixth full length album by Summoning. ...
Terrorizer was a grindcore band formed in 1986 in Los Angeles, California, United States. ...
Darker Days Ahead is the second album by Terrorizer. ...
The band Theatre of Tragedy Theatre of Tragedy is a Norwegian band from Stavanger, originally assembled in 1993 and best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre. ...
A shelf cloud associated with a heavy or severe thunderstorm over Enschede, Netherlands A storm is any disturbed state of an astronomical bodys atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. ...
The Sword is a doom metal[1] band from Austin, Texas. ...
Age of Winters is the debut album released by doom metal band The Sword. ...
Trivium is a metal band from Orlando, Florida. ...
The Crusade is the third full-length studio album by heavy metal band Trivium which was released on October 10, 2006 through Roadrunner Records. ...
Týr is a band that hails from the Faroe Islands. ...
Eric the Red is the second full-length album by the Faroese Folk / Viking Metal band Týr. ...
Týr is a band that hails from the Faroe Islands. ...
Ragnarok is the third full-length album by the Faroese folk / viking metal band Týr. ...
Underoath (sometimes stylized as Underøath or UnderOATH) are a Christian metalcore band. ...
Define the Great Line is the fifth album by the Florida-based rock band Underoath. ...
Unearth (formed 1998) is a metalcore band with melodic death, groove, and thrash metal influences from Winthrop, Massachusetts. ...
uneXpect is an avant-garde extreme metal band from Montreal, Canada with a unique amalgamation of completely different styles of music, including black, death, core, progressive and melodic heavy metal; European classical, operatic, medieval, gypsy music, electro, ambient, psychotic, noise, circus music and jazz. ...
In a Flesh Aquarium is the second full-length album by Canadian Avant-garde extreme metal band uneXpect. ...
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Voivod is a progressive metal band from Canada. ...
Katorz is the fourteenth album by the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod. ...
Wicked Wisdom is a nu metal/rapcore band featuring Jada Pinkett Smith as lead vocalist, who is the wife of actor and singer Will Smith. ...
Wicked Wisdom is the debut album of the nu-metal/ rapcore band of the same name. ...
Witchery is a Swedish thrash metal band, formed by former members of Satanic Slaughter in 1997. ...
(Dont Fear) The Reaper is a song by the Blue Öyster Cult from the 1976 album Agents of Fortune. ...
Wolfmother is an Australian Grammy Award Winning and ARIA award winning hard rock band from Sydney, New South Wales. ...
Wolfmother is the first full-length album from the Australian three-piece psychedelic rock band Wolfmother. ...
Zyklon is a Norwegian blackened death metal band formed in 1998 by Samoth and Trym of Norwegian black metal band Emperor, along with former members of Myrkskog, in order to make up for the fact that Emperor were no longer playing live. ...
Disintegrate is the third studio album by Norwegian death metal band Zyklon. ...
Disbandments Beseech was the name of a goth rock/gothic metal band from Borås, Sweden. ...
Dissection was a well-known Swedish black metal band formed in 1989 by guitarist and vocalist Jon Nödtveidt. ...
Lord Gore is a death metal band from Portland, USA. They have many influences from doom metal and often use samples from horror movies typical of gore metal. ...
Peccatum is an avantgarde metal band from Norway. ...
Terrorizer was a grindcore band formed in 1986 in Los Angeles, California, United States. ...
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