2006 in heavy metal music

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

Newly formed bands

*Bruxers
*Dethklok
*Den Saakaldte
* The Devil Wears Prada
*Divine Heresy
*Menacer

Reformed bands

* Alice in Chains
* Atheist
* Carnivore
* Extreme (for a few shows)
* Immortal
* Myrkskog (for a one-off show. they are now defunct)
* Pitchshifter

Albums

* 24-7 Spyz - "Face the Day"
* The Acacia Strain - "The Dead Walk"
* Agalloch - "Ashes Against the Grain"
* Agoraphobic Nosebleed - "PCP Torpedo/ANbRX"
* Alice in Chains - "The Essential Alice in Chains"
* All That Remains - "The Fall of Ideals"
* Amon Amarth - "With Oden on our Side"
* Angra - "Aurora Consurgens"
* Arsis - "United in Regret"
* Atreyu - "A Death Grip On Yesterday"
* A Band Called Pain - "Broken Dreams"
* Beto Vázquez Infinity - "Flying Towards the New Horizon
* Behemoth - "Demonica"
* Beyond Fear - "Beyond Fear"
* Black Label Society - "Shot to Hell"
* Blind Guardian - "A Twist in the Myth"
* Body Count - "Murder 4 Hire"
* Borknagar - "Origin"
* Bring Me The Horizon - "Count Your Blessings"
* Cannibal Corpse - "Kill"
* Carpathian Forest - "Fuck You All!!!!"
* Catamenia - ""
* Cattle Decapitation - "Karma.Bloody.Karma."
* Celestiial - "Desolate North"
* Cellador - "Enter Deception"
* Celtic Frost - "Monotheist"
* Chrome Division - "Doomsday Rock 'N' Roll"
* 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"
* Rob Zombie - "Educated Horses"
* Ensiferum - "Dragonheads"
* Enslaved - "Ruun"
* Europe - Secret Society
* 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"
* Godsmack - "IV"
* Grave" - "As Rapture Comes"
* HammerFall - "Threshold"
* Heaven Shall Burn - "Deaf to Our Prayers
* Himsa - "Hail Horror"
* In Flames - "Come Clarity"
* Iron Maiden - "A Matter of Life and Death"
* Kataklysm - "In the Arms of Devastation"
* Killswitch Engage - "As Daylight Dies
* Krisiun - "AssassiNation"
* Krux - "II"
* Lacuna Coil - "Karmacode"
* Lamb of God - "Sacrament"
* Lordi - "The Arockalypse
* Mastodon - "Call of the Mastodon", "Blood Mountain"
* Mercenary - "The Hours that Remain"
* Metal Church - "A Light in the Dark"
* 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"
* Nightwish - "Highest Hopes"
* No Big Silence - "War In Wonderland"
* Outworld - "Outworld"
* Paul Stanley, (Kiss) - "Live to Win"
* Phobia - "Cruel"
* P.O.D. - "Testify"
* Pitchshifter - "None for All and All for One" EP
* Queensrÿche - ""
* Rammstein - " Völkerball"
* Raunchy - Death Pop Romance"
* 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"
* Shadows Fall - "Fallout From the War"
* Sigma - "Violence Speaks Louder Than Words"
* Skid Row - "Revolutions Per Minute"
* Skinless - "Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead"
* Slayer - "Christ Illusion"
* Sleep Terror - "Probing Tranquility"
* Sodom - "Sodom"
* Solefald - ""
* Solitude Aeturnus - "Alone"
* Sonata Arctica - "For the Sake of Revenge"
* Stone Sour - "Come What(ever) May"
* Spawn of Possession - "Noctambulant"
* Strapping Young Lad - "The New Black"
* Sturmgeist - "Über"
* Suffocation - "Suffocation
* Summoning - "Oath Bound'
* Terrorizer - "Darker Days Ahead"
* Theatre of Tragedy - "Storm"
* The Sword - "Age of Winters"
* Threat Signal - "Under Reprisal"
* Tool (band) - "10,000 Days"
* Trivium - "The Crusade"
* Týr - "Eric the Red" (re-release)
* Týr - "Ragnarok"
* Underoath - "Define the Great Line"
* Unearth - ""
* uneXpect - "In a Flesh Aquarium"
* Vader - "Impressions in Blood"
* Voivod - "Katorz"
* WarCry - "La Quinta Esencia"
* Wicked Wisdom - "Wicked Wisdom"
* Witchery - "Don't Fear the Reaper"
* Wolfmother - "Wolfmother"
* Zyklon - "Disintegrate"

Disbandments

* Beseech
* Dissection
* Lord Gore
* Myrkskog
* Peccatum
* System of a down (on haitus)
* Terrorizer

Events

* 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).
* Extreme reunite for a second time – now with their "classic" original line-up – to do a small three-show reunion tour in New England.
* 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.
* Opeth drummer Martin Lopez officially and permanently leaves Opeth on May 12th, 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".
*Sabine Dünser, singer of the gothic metal band Elis, dies and is replaced with Sandra Schleret..