Brave Picks 2006 ... The Countdown Continues: #66-#6
December 31, 2006, 17 years ago
As voted by the devout scribes/staff of BW&BK; magazine, our annual Brave Picks Top 66 is a meticulously compiled list of the ultimate hard rock/metal releases that have crossed our paths this year. Each day we will countdown a block of 10 ... on New Year's Day will will list the final 6! Here are the next ten:
Brave Picks 2006 - Top 66 Countdown
66) GOATWHORE - A Haunting Curse (Metal Blade)
65) DECAPITATED - Organic Hallucinosis (Earache)
64) DIRTY RIG – Rock Did It (Escapi)
63) GLENN HUGHES – Music For The Divine (Frontiers)
62) HERESI – Psalm II: Infusco Ignis (Total Holocaust/Hydra Head)
61) DEADBOY AND THE ELEPHANT MEN – We Are Night Sky (Fat Possum)
60) STRAPPING YOUNG LAD – The New Black (Century Media)'
59) EVERGREY – Monday Morning Apocalypse (InsideOut)
58) ANTAEUS – Blood Libels (Norma Evangelia Diaboli)
57) NEGLECTED FIELDS – Splenetic (Aghast)
56) CHEAP TRICK – Rockford (Big 3)
55) VENOM - Metal Black (Sanctuary)
54) MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP – Tales Of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Armageddon Music)
53) FIREWIND - Allegiance (Century Media)
52) WEDNESDAY 13 - Fang Bang (Rykodisc)
51) MISERY INDEX - Discordia (Relapse)
50) ANGEL BLAKE – Angel Blake (Metal Blade)
49) KEEP OF KALESSIN – Armada (Tabu)
48) ASUNDER – Works Will Come Undone (Profound Lore)
47) DISSECTION - Reinkaos (The End)
46) JON OLIVA’S PAIN – Maniacal Renderings (AFM)
45) CATHEDRAL - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights (Nuclear Blast)
44) MY DYING BRIDE – A Line Of Deathless Kings (Peaceville)
43) ISIS – In The Absence Of Truth (Ipecac)
42) KATAKLYSM – In The Arms Of Devastation (Nuclear Blast)
41) THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND – Synchestra (InsideOut)
40) NACHTMYSTIUM – Instinct:Decay (Battle Kommand)
39) BLACK STONE CHERRY - Black Stone Cherry (Roadrunner)
38) MELIAH RAGE - The Deep And Dreamless Sleep (Screaming Ferret)
37) KORPIKLAANI – Tales Along This Road (Napalm)
36) BEYOND FEAR – Beyond Fear (SPV)
35) EIDOLON – The Parallel Otherworld (Escapi)
34) FALCONER – Northwind (Metal Blade)
33) STONE SOUR – Come What(ever) May (Roadrunner)
32) CRADLE OF FILTH – Thornography (Roadrunner)
31) KATATONIA – The Great Cold Distance (Peaceville)
30) BLACK LABEL SOCIETY - Shot To Hell (Roadrunner)
29) GRAVE - As Rapture Comes (Century Media)
28) WITCHERY – Don’t Fear The Reaper (Century Media)
27) AMORPHIS – Eclipse (Nuclear Blast)
26) IHSAHN – The Adversary (Candlelight)
25) INSOMNIUM – Above The Weeping World (Candlelight)
24) ANGTORIA – God Has A Plan For Us All (Listenable)
23) CELTIC FROST – Monotheist (Century Media)
22) AGALLOCH – Ashes Against The Grain (The End)
21) LAMB OF GOD – Sacrament (Epic)
20) OSI – Free (InsideOut)
19) JORN – The Duke (AFM)
18) CANNIBAL CORPSE - Kill (Metal Blade)
17) INTO ETERNITY – The Scattering Of Ashes (Century Media)
16) DISMEMBER – The God That Never Was (Regain)
15) AMON AMARTH – With Oden On Our Side (Metal Blade)
14) CONVERGE – No Heroes (Epitaph)
13) HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – The Locust Years (Cruz Del Sur)
12) MASTODON – Blood Mountain (Relapse/Warner)
11) BLIND GUARDIAN – A Twist In The Myth (Nuclear Blast)
10) IRON MAIDEN – A Matter Of Life And Death (EMI)
9) NAPALM DEATH - Smear Campaign (Century Media)
8) MOTORHEAD – Kiss Of Death (Sanctuary)
7) ENSLAVED – Ruun (Tabu)
6) SATYRICON – Now, Diabolical (Century Media)