2006 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2006.
Newly formed bands
Reformed Bands
Albums
- The Acacia Strain - The Dead Walk
- Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed - PCP Torpedo/ANbRX
- All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals
- Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
- Angra - Aurora Consurgens
- Arsis - United In Regret
- Beto Vázquez Infinity - Flying Towards the new Horizon
- Behemoth - Demonica
- Beyond Fear - Beyond Fear
- Birds of Prey - Weight Of The Wound
- Black Label Society - Shot to Hell
- Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
- Blood Freak - Live Fast, Die Young... And Leave A Flesh-Eating Corpse
- Borknagar - Origin
- Cannibal Corpse - Kill
- Carpathian Forest - Fuck You All!!!!
- Cattle Decapitation - Karma.Bloody.Karma.
- Cellador - Enter Deception
- Celtic Frost - Monotheist
- Cradle of Filth - Thornography
- Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
- Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
- Def Leppard - Yeah!
- Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
- Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
- Dismember - The God That Never Was
- Dissection (band) - Reinkaos
- DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
- Dream Theater - Score
- Edguy - Rocket Ride
- Ensiferum - Dragonheads
- Enslaved - Ruun
- Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse
- Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
- Frightmare - Bringing Back the Bloodshed
- From a Second Story Window - Delenda
- Ghoul - Splatterthrash
- Grave - As Rapture Comes
- HammerFall - Threshold
- Himsa - Hail Horror
- In Flames - Come Clarity
- Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
- Jungle Rot - War Zone
- Kataklysm - In the Arms of Devastation
- Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
- Krisiun - AssassiNation
- Krux - II
- Lamb of God - Sacrament
- Lordi - The Arockalypse
- Mastodon - Call of the Mastodon, Blood Mountain
- Misery Index - Discordia
- Misery Signals - Mirrors
- Moonspell - Memorial
- Motörhead - Kiss Of Death
- Mushroomhead - Savior Sorrow
- My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
- Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
- Necrophobic - Hrimthursum
- Norma Jean - Redeemer
- Outworld (band)-Outworld
- Phobia - Cruel
- Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime II
- Rammstein - Volkerball
- Rhapsody of Fire - Triumph or Agony
- Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
- Rotten Sound - Consume to Contaminate
- Runemagick - Invocation of Magick
- Sabaton - Attero Dominatus
- Sadus - Out for Blood
- Sepultura - Dante XXI
- Skid Row - Revolutions Per Minute
- Skinless - Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead
- Slayer - Christ Illusion
- Sleep Terror - Probing Tranquility
- Sodom - Sodom
- Solefald - Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2
- Sonata Arctica - For the Sake of Revenge
- Spawn of Possession - Noctambulant
- Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
- Stratovarius - Black Diamond: The Anthology
- Sturmgeist - Über
- Suffocation - Suffocation
- Summoning - Oath Bound'
- Terrorizer - Darker Days Ahead
- The Sword - Age of Winters
- Trivium - The Crusade
- Týr - Eric the Red (re-release)
- Týr - Ragnarok
- uneXpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
- Vader - Impressions In Blood
- Viron - NWOGHM
- Voivod - Katorz
- Vried - Pitch Black Brigade
- Witchery - Don't Fear the Reaper
- Zyklon - Disintegrate
Disbandments
Events
- 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.
- Lordi wins Eurovision Song Contest 2006.
- System of a Down goes on a long-term hiatus.
- Jesse Pintado of Terrorizer and formerly of Napalm Death passes away.
- Disarm from the UK go into the studio to record there eagerly anticipated debut album following there UK tour alongside Dirty Rig.
- Opeth drummer Martin Lopez officially and permanently leaves Opeth on May 12th, 2006, due to ilness and anxiety attacks to the dismay of many an Opeth fan. Martin Axenrot has replaced him as a permanent replacement and has played with the band on the last 5 tours and the BBC recordings on a previously temporary basis.
- Metalocalypse airs on the Adult Swim network.