2006 in heavy metal music

none March 2012 2006 2006 heavy metal music This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2006. Newly formed bands 20em 1000mods Abandon All Ships Adelitas Way All Hail the Yeti Almah Altar of Plagues Amberian Dawn American Me Ancestors Ancient Bards Thy Art Is Murder Arven Asking Alexandria Beastwars Bison B.C. Black Breath Black Veil Brides Blood Ceremony Bloodsoaked Brymir Bury Tomorrow Cannabis Corpse Castevet Cauldron Cerebral Bore Circle of Contempt Coldworker Conan Daughtry Den Saakaldte Dethklok The Devil's Blood Diabulus in Musica Divide the Sea Dragged into Sunlight Elder Elysion Fen Flactorophia Forever Storm Ghost Graveyard Heaven & Hell Hail of Bullets Hellyeah I Ignominious Incarceration Nekrogoblikon Oceano Pathfinder Revocation Scars on Broadway Sister Skull Fist Stone Gods Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Skyhttp://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/successwillwriteapocalypseacrosstheskyinterview.htm Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky interview: A conversation with guitarist Ian Sturgill Bowar Chad May 6, 2009 About.com The New York Times Company June 22, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20110527200152/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/successwillwriteapocalypseacrosstheskyinterview.htm May 27, 2011 dead mdy-all Terror Syndrome UnSun Van Canto Vola Whitechapel Winterfylleth Reformed bands Alcatrazz Alice in Chains Atheist Carnivore Emperor (for a few shows) Extreme (for a few shows) Immortal Myrkskog (for a one-off show. they are now defunct) Pitchshifter Sir Lord Baltimore Disbandments Burning My Abigail Cold (reformed in 2009) Crashdïet Dissection Fear Factory Full Scale (reformed in 2009) Limp Bizkit (on hiatus until 2009) Myrkskog Peccatum System of a Down (on hiatus) Terrorizer Winter Solstice Events Winter Solstice call it quits. Lordi wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 for Finland with the song Hard Rock Hallelujah in Athens, Greece.https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/arts/22iht-web.0521eurovision.html Hard rock hallelujah: Finnish rockers Lordi win Eurovision Song Contest New York Times English 22 May 2006 29 November 2018 Slipknot goes on hiatus until 2008 while members work on their "side projects". Queen, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, and Kiss are the first bands inducted into the VH1 Rock Honors. Alice in Chains reunite with the Jar of Flies line-up and singer William DuVall replaces the late Layne Staley. Body Count releases their first album in nine years, Murder 4 Hire. The album features the band's new line-up: Bendrix (rhythm guitar), Vincent Price (bass), and O.T. (drums). Slayer releases their tenth studio album, Christ Illusion. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 5—the band's highest U.S. chart position to date. The single Eyes of the Insane won the Best Metal Performance category at the 49th Grammy Awards. Extreme reunite for a second time – now with their "classic" original line-up – to do a small three-show reunion tour in New England. System of a Down goes on a long-term hiatus. Jesse Pintado of Terrorizer and formerly of Napalm Death passes away. Opeth drummer Martin Lopez officially and permanently leaves Opeth on May 12, 2006, due to illness and is replaced by Martin Axenrot. Metalocalypse airs on the Adult Swim network. Mercenary bassist/vocalist Henrik "Kral" Andersen leaves in March and is replaced by René Pedersen. Visions of Atlantis keyboardist Miro Holly quits and is replaced by Martin Harb. Chimaira drummer Andols Herrick rejoins the band (after leaving in 2003), forcing the departure of Kevin Talley. Tapio Wilska was fired from Finntroll due to personal differences. Iggor Cavalera leaves Sepultura due to "artistic incompatibility". Albums released January Day Artist Album 9 DragonForce Inhuman Rampage 10 Bleeding Through The Truth Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 20 Edguy Rocket Ride 24 Demiricous One (Hellbound) Nocturnal Rites Grand Illusion P.O.D. Testify Sworn Enemy The Beginning of the End 25 Norther Till Death Unites Us 30 The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra Psycroptic Symbols of Failure February Day Artist Album 3 In Flames Come Clarity 5 Warbringer One By One, The Wicked Fall (EP) 7 Hank Williams III Straight to Hell Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis Himsa Hail Horror Mastodon Call of the Mastodon 14 Bullet for My Valentine The Poison (USA Release) The Sword Age of Winters 15 Amorphis Eclipse Ensiferum Dragonheads (EP) 17 Buckethead The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock 20 Dismember The God That Never Was Raunchy Death Pop Romance 21 Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation Krisiun AssassiNation Wicked Wisdom Wicked Wisdom 22 Kalmah The Black Waltz 27 Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive Sadus Out For Blood Witchery Don't Fear the Reaper March Day Artist Album 10 Lordi The Arockalypse 13 Katatonia The Great Cold Distance Sepultura Dante XXI 18 Machinae Supremacy Redeemer 21 Cannibal Corpse Kill 23 Drudkh Blood in Our Wells 24 Oomph! GlaubeLiebeTod 28 Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday Phobia Cruel 31 Queensrÿche Operation: Mindcrime II Lacuna Coil Karmacode Summoning Oath Bound April Day Artist Album 3 The Slot Две войны (Two wars) 4 Caliban The Undying Darkness Dead to Fall The Phoenix Throne Evergrey Monday Morning Apocalypse Sonata Arctica For the Sake of Revenge (Live Album) 19 myGRAIN Orbit Dance 21 OSI Free Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress 25 Godsmack IV Moonspell Memorial Dissection Reinkaos May Day Artist Album 2 Enslaved Ruun Ministry Rio Grande Blood Place of Skulls The Black Is Never Far Soil True Self Silent Civilian Rebirth of the Temple Tool 10,000 Days 8 Beyond Fear Beyond Fear 9 Visceral Bleeding Absorbing the Disarray 12 Sodom Sodom 15 Architects Nightmares 16 The Autumn Offering Embrace the Gutter Misery Index Discordia Russian Circles Enter Zyklon Disintegrate 19 Communic Waves of Visual Decay 22 Cataract Kingdom Necrophobic Hrimthursum 23 Prototype Continuum 26 Threat Signal Under Reprisal 27 The Red Shore Salvaging What's Left (EP) 29 Celtic Frost Monotheist June Day Artist Album 1 Eluveitie Spirit Ghoul Splatterthrash 6 As Blood Runs Black Allegiance Dance Club Massacre Feast of the Blood Monsters Red End of Silence 7 Illdisposed Burn Me Wicked Rotten Sound Consume to Contaminate 12 Celestiial Desolate North Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks 13 The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk Satyricon Now, Diabolical Shadows Fall Fallout from the War (Compilation) Skinless Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead Three Days Grace One-X Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here 19 Anata The Conductor's Departure Carpathian Forest Fuck You All!!!! Caput tuum in ano est 20 Underoath Define the Great Line 26 SikTh Death of a Dead Day 27 Cellador Enter Deception Metal Church A Light in the Dark Theatre of Tragedy Storm July Day Artist Album 4 Spawn of Possession Noctambulant Flactorophia Redemption of the Flesh (EP) 10 A Band Called Pain Broken Dreams Behemoth Demonica (Box-set) 24-7 Spyz Face the Day 11 All That Remains The Fall of Ideals Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma From a Second Story Window Delenda Strapping Young Lad The New Black 21 Chrome Division Doomsday Rock 'n Roll 25 Grave As Rapture Comes Voivod Katorz 28 Sabaton Attero Dominatus August Day Artist Album 1 Body Count Murder 4 Hire 7 Antagonist A.D. These Cities, Our Graves 8 Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain All Shall Perish The Price of Existence Breaking Benjamin Phobia Daughters Hell Songs Slayer Christ Illusion Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire 9 Insomnium Above the Weeping World 10 Ihsahn The Adversary 13 Maligno (MX) Malignohttps://www.spirit-of-metal.com/en/album/Maligno/81239 Eponymous full-length debut album by MALIGNO from Monterrey, México April 28, 2026 15 Coldseed Completion Makes the Tragedy 17 Diablo Swing Orchestra The Butcher's Ballroom 21 Mercenary The Hours That Remain 22 Deicide The Stench of Redemption Gorod Leading Vision The Human Abstract Nocturne Lamb of God Sacrament Misery Signals Mirrors Terrorizer Darker Days Ahead Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium Walls of Jericho With Devils Amongst Us All The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord 25 Catamenia Location: COLD 28 Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death 29 Dream Theater Score (CD/DVD) Hatebreed Supremacy Motörhead Kiss of Death September Day Artist Album 1 Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth 5 Alice in Chains The Essential Alice in Chains (Compilation) Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers Vader Impressions in Blood 11 Mastodon Blood Mountain 12 Black Label Society Shot to Hell Norma Jean Redeemer 15 Buckethead Crime Slunk Scene Napalm Death Smear Campaign 18 WarCry La Quinta Esencia 19 Diecast Internal Revolution Dry Kill Logic Of Vengeance and Violence Light This City Facing the Thousand Mushroomhead Savior Sorrow Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun Suffocation Suffocation 22 Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side Týr Ragnarok 25 Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes Rhapsody of Fire Triumph or Agony October Day Artist Album 3 Evanescence The Open Door Quiet Riot Rehab Skillet Comatose 9 My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings 10 Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea Trivium The Crusade Zero Hour Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond 11 Solitude Aeturnus Alone 13 Dream Evil United 16 Sturmgeist Über Sylosis Casting Shadows (EP) Textures Drawing Circles 17 Cradle of Filth Thornography It Dies Today Sirens 18 HammerFall Threshold Solefald Black for Death: An Icelandic Odyssey, Pt. 2 23 Angra Aurora Consurgens Krux II 24 Beto Vázquez Infinity Flying Towards the New Horizon Paul Stanley Live to Win Skid Row Revolutions per Minute 25 Europe Secret Society 30 Borknagar Origin Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings Melechesh Emissaries Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth 31 Deftones Saturday Night Wrist God Dethroned The Toxic Touch The Haunted The Dead Eye Isis In the Absence of Truth Martyr Feeding the Abscess Scars of Tomorrow The Failure in Drowning November Day Artist Album 2 Decadence 3rd Stage of Decay 7 Arsis United in Regret 13 Outworld Outworld 14 The Faceless Akeldama 17 Rammstein Völkerball (CD/DVD) Suidakra Caledonia 21 Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies 22 Sentenced Buried Alive (Live CD) December Day Artist Album 1 Oomph! Delikatessen 6 This Ending Inside the Machine 20 Blinded Colony Bedtime Prayers Release date unknown Vomitorial Corpulence – Karrionic Hacktician See also 2006 in Swiss music References Heavy Metal Timeline 2005 2007 2006 Category:2000s in heavy metal music Metal