2006 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2006.

Newly formed bands

• 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
• Forever Storm
• Ghost
• Graveyard
• 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 Sky ^[1]
• 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

• 20 May – Lordi wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 for Finland with the song Hard Rock Hallelujah in Athens, Greece. ^[2]
• 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	The Sword	Age of Winters
	Bullet for My Valentine	The Poison (USA Release)
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
	Summoning	Oath Bound
30	Dissection	Reinkaos

May

Day	Artist	Album
2	Enslaved	Ruun
	Ministry	Rio Grande Blood
	Place of Skulls	The Black Is Never Far
	Silent Civilian	Rebirth of the Temple
	Tool	10,000 Days
8	Beyond Fear	Beyond Fear
9	Visceral Bleeding	Absorbing the Disarray
12	Sodom	Sodom
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
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
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
	Strapping Young Lad	The New Black
21	Chrome Division	Doomsday Rock 'n Roll
25	From a Second Story Window	Delenda
	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
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
	Motorhead	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
	Skillet	Comatose
9	My Dying Bride	A Line of Deathless Kings
10	Ahab	The Call of the Wretched Sea
	Trivium	The Crusade
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
	The Haunted	The Dead Eye
	Melechesh	Emissaries
	Kylesa	Time Will Fuse Its Worth
31	Deftones	Saturday Night Wrist
	God Dethroned	The Toxic Touch
	ISIS	In the Absence of Truth
	Martyr	Feeding the Abscess

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

See also

• 2006 in Swiss music

References

1. Bowar, Chad (May 6, 2009). "Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky interview: A conversation with guitarist Ian Sturgill". About.com . The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on May 27, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
2. "Hard rock hallelujah: Finnish rockers Lordi win Eurovision Song Contest". New York Times. May 22, 2006. Retrieved November 29, 2018.

Preceded by 2005

Heavy Metal Timeline 2006

Succeeded by 2007