[url=http://www.mikeroberto.com/2006/12/28/my-top-15-albums-of-2006/]1. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
2. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
3. David Gilmour - On An Island
4. Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses
5. Amon Amarth - When Oden on Our Side
6. Hammers of Misfortune - The Locust Years
7. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
8. Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
9. Amorphis - Eclipse
10. Leaves' Eyes - Legend Land EP
11. The Quill - Triumph
12. Wolverine - Still
13. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
14. Supersuckers - Paid EP
15. Johnny Cash - American V[/url]

Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénerescence
Nihil Nocturne - Wahnsinn.Tod.Verrat
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Enslaved - Ruun
Secrets of the Moon - Antithesis
Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines
Mgla - Presence
Antaeus - Blood Libels
Drudkh - Krov u nashykh Krynytsyakh (Blood in Our Wells)
Spektr - Near Death Experience
Katharsis - VVorldVVithoutEnd
Black Crucifixion - Faustian Dream
Clandestine Blaze - Church of Atrocity
CYT - Configuration of a Yearned Twilight
Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
Moonspell - Memorial
Heresi - Psalm II - Infusco Ignis
Negurã Bunget - Om
Wolfe - Wolfe
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings

Veni Domine - 23:59
Place of Skulls - The Black Is Never Far
Wolf - The Black Flame
Narnia - Enter The Gate
Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth
Mortification - Erasing The Goblin
I-Dragon-I - ep
Pyramaze - Legend Of The Bone Carver
Solitude Aeturnus - Alone
Queensryche - Mindcrime II

Compared to the last few years, kind of lean this year for me.

1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
3. The Gathering - Home
4. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
5. Suffocation - Suffocation
6. Ihsahn - The Adversary
7. Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side
8. Tool - 10,000 Days
9. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
10. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
11. Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
12. Meshuggah - Nothing reissue
13. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
14. Enslaved - Ruun
15. Slayer - Christ Illusion

1. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
2. Kataklysm - In The Arms Of Devastation
3. All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existance
4. In Flames - Come Clarity
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
6. Tool - 10,000 Days
7. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
8. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
9. Isis - In The Absence Of Truth
10. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
11. All That Remains - Fall Of Ideals
12. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
13. Mister Bones - Monster Burn And The Power Seekers
14. Deicide - The Stench Of Redemption
15. Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth

1. Anonymus - Chapter Chaos Begins
2. Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road
3. Slayer - Christ Illusion
4. Kalmah - The Black Waltz
5. Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes
6. DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
7. Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses
8. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
9. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
10. Hammers Of Misfortune - The Locust Years
11. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
12. Arsis - United In Regret
13. Cradle Of Filth - Thornography
14. In Flames - Come Clarity
15. Soulscar - End Game

1. Free- O.S.I.

2. Eclipse- Amorphis

3. Blood Mountain - Mastodon

4. Ashes Against the Grain - Agalloch

5. Monotheist - Celtic Frost

6. The Great Cold Distance - Katatonia

7. Alone- Solitude Aeturnus

8. Ruun - Enslaved

9. Come Clarity - In Flames

10. Organic Hallucinosis - Decapitated

11. Between Two Worlds - I

12. The Adversary -Ihsahn

13. A Matter of Life and Death - Maiden

14. Devour the Power - Destroy Destory Destroy

15. Katorz- VoiVod

Most listened-to metalish releases of 2006 (order is pretty arbitrary):

1. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
2. Om - Conference of the Birds
3. Converge - No Heroes
4. Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
5. Nachtmystium - Instinct Decay
6. Intronaut - Void
7. Suffocation - Suffocation
8. Boris - Pink
9. Jesu - Silver
10. Tragedy - Nerve Damage
11. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
12. Sunn O))) / Boris - Altar
13. Anata - The Conductor's Departure
14. Negativa - MCD
15. Celtic Frost - Monotheist

now official, i don't know if it's too late or not, but a few changes.

1-Tool-10000 Days
2-Pearl Jam-Pearl Jam
3-Into Eternity-The Scattering of Ashes
4-The Melvins-A Senile Animal
5-Chrome Division-Doomsday Rock n Roll
6-Lamb of God-Sacrament
7-Amon Amarth-With Oden on Our Side
8-Mastodon-Blood Mountain
9-Dissection-Reinkaos
10-Iron Maiden-A Matter of Life and Death
11-Kataklysm-In The Arms of Devastation
12-Decapitated-Organic Halucinocis
13-Witchcraft-Witchcraft
14-Slayer-Christ Illusion
15-Ministry-Rio Grande Blood

If it still counts...

1. Sahg - I
2. Katatonia - Great Cold Distance
3. My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
4. Asunder - Works Will Come Undone
5. Motorhead - Kiss of Death
6. Novembre - Materia
7. Orne - s/t
8. Slayer - Christ Illusion
9. Amorphis - Eclipse
10. Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse
11. DTB - Synchestra
12. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
13. Early Man
14. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
15. Stonegard - Arrows

1. Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
2. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
3. Lamb of God - Sacrament
4. In Flames - Come Clarity
5. Cannibal Corpse - Kill
6. Akercocke - Words that Go Unspoken, Deads that Go Undone
7. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
8. Arcane Necrosis - Arcane Necrosis
9. Glass Casket - Desperate Man's Diaries
10. Strapping Yound Lad - The New Black
11. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
Levithan/Sapthuran - Levithan/Sapthuran

The Leviathan/Sapthuran split doesn't have a number because I haven't listened to it enough to know where to put it. All I know is that it belongs on the list.

Just reserving my spot here. Is there a deadline for submission LOAF?

I'm going to start on it tonight, so if i've gone through your list already then any changes and what not will not be counted. So I'd get it in soon.

My top 11(the only ones I heard)

Iron Maiden-A Matter Of Life And Death
Enslaved-Ruun
Trivium-The Crusade
Cradle Of Filth-Thornography
Celtic Frost-Monotheist
Voivod-Katorz
Aman Amarth-With Oden On Our Side
Amorphis-Eclipse
Slayer-Christ Illusion
Tipton,Entwistle & Powell-Edge Of The World
Sodom-Sodom

1. Lugubrum (Belgium)"Heilige Dwazen"
2. Malveillance (Canada) "Just Fuck Off"
3. Diecold (Hungary) "Rest in Hell"
4. The Tyrant of Manchester (England) "Rough Music / Bad Blood"
5. Goathemy (Finland) "Frostland"
6. Negative Plane (America) "Et In Saecula Saeculorum"
7. P. D. SS Totenkopf (Ukraine) "Ljasnyja Braty"
8. Terror Squad (Japan) "Chasodragon Rising"
9. Darvulia (France) "L'Alliance Des Venins"
10. Tjolgtjar (America) "Five Tjolgtjarian Keys"

Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death (EMI)
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (The End)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars (Vendlus)
Enslaved - Ruun (Candlelight)
Mercenary - The Hours That Remain (Century Media)
Ares Kingdom - Return to Dust (NWN)
Thralldom - A Shaman Steering The Vessel Of Vastness (Profound Lore)
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign (Century Media)
Melechesh - Emissaries (Osmose)
Negura Bunget - OM (Code666)
Sodom - self-titled (SPV)
Burning Saviours - Hundus (I Hate)
Ihsahn - The Adversary (Candlelight)
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies 1, 2, & 3 (Important)
Attacker - The Unknown (Sentinel Steel)

You really liked that Ares Kingdom disc eh? I got it a bit too late in the year so it didn't get on my list, but I can see this growing on me for sure...very intelligent death metal.

And I have not heard a single note off this Sodom album One day, one day...

K thanks Mike, I'll get in tonight.

I think it was a fantastic year for metal...

1. Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
2. Gorod - Leading vision
3. Grotesque Through Incoherence - One thousand blasting words
4. Anata - The Conductor's Departure
5. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
6. Angtoria - God Has A Plan For Us All
7. Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
8. Katatonia – The Great Cold Distance
9. Martyr - Feeding the Abscess
10. Mercenary - The hours that remain
11. To-Mera - Transcendental
12. Twisted into form- then comes affliction to awaken the dreamer
13. Degree Absolute - Degree Absolute
14. Asmodeus - Řetěz kritických událostí
15. Distorted - memorial

Let's hope 2007 is as good

1. Napalm Death- Smear Campaign (Century Media)
2. Into Eternity- The Scattering Of Ashes (Century Media)
3. Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain (The End)
4. Suffocation- Suffocation (Relpase)
5. Krisiun- Assassination (Century Media)
6. Deicide- The Stench Of Redemption (Earache)
7. I - Between Two Worlds (Nuclear Blast)
8. Slayer- Christ Illusion (American Recordings)
9. Dismember- The God that Never Was (Regain)
10. Sadus- Out for Blood (Mascot)
11. One Man Army and The Undead Quartet- 21st Century killing Machine (Nuclear Blast)
12. Sahg-I (Regain)
13. Evergrey- Monday Morning Apocalypse (Inside Out/SPV)
14. Anata- The Conductor's Departure (Earache)
15. Goatwhore A Haunted Curse (Metal Blade)
16. Celtic Frost- Monotheist (Century Media)
17. Strapping Young Lad- The New Black (Century Media)
18. Vader- Impressions Of Blood (Candlelight)
19. Mastery- Lethal Legacy (Spinerazor)
20. My Dying Bride- A Line of Deathless Kings (Peaceville)

the rest of the list is posted at our myspace...

Good to see someone else pick this

1. Gojira-From Mars to Sirius
2. Tool-10,000 Days
3. Pearl Jam-s/t
4. Sepultura-Dante XXI
5. Isis-In the Absence of Truth
6. Into Eternity-The Scattering of Ashes
7. In Flames-Come Clarity
8. Lamb of God-Sacrament
9. Zebulon Pike-II: The Deafening Twilight
10. Wolfmother-s/t
11. AFI-Decemberunderground
12. Seemless-What Have We Become

1. Pharaoh - The Longest Night

2. Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
3. Manilla Road - Gates Of Fire
4. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

I've heard other stuff, but nothing worth putting on a list. That Pharaoh album is by far the best thing I've heard since Slough Feg's Traveler. Great album.