This year I was on the ball. I got a lot of great releases and found a few new bands.

Starkweather
Croatoan
Released May 2, 2006
http://www.myspace.com/
starkweather666
Sick of it All
Death to Tyrants

Released April 18, 2006
http://www.sickofitall.com/
Sworn Enemy
The Beginning of the End
Released January 24, 2006
http://www.swornenemynyc.com/
Remembering Never
God Save Us

Released February 21, 2006
http://www.rememberingnever.net/
Buckcherry
15

Released April 11, 2006
http://www.buckcherry.com/
Bullet for My Valentine
The Poison

Released February 14, 2006
http://www.bulletformyvalentine1.com/
Hatebreed
Supremacy

Released August 29, 2006
http://www.hatebreed.com/
All That Remains
The Fall of Ideals

Released July 11, 2006
http://www.allthatremainsonline.com/
Shadows Fall
Fallout From The War

Released June 13, 2006
http://www.shadowsfall.com/
Breaking Benjamin
Phobia

Released August 8, 2006
http://www.myspace.com/
breakingbenjamin
Evans Blue
The Melody And The Energetic Nature of Volume

Released February 21, 2006
http://www.myspace.com/evansblue
Dragonforce
Inhuman Rampage

Released June 20, 2006
http://www.dragonforce.com/
Path of Resistance
Can't Stop The Truth

Released April 18, 2006
http://www.myspace.com/
pathofresistance
Lacuna Coil
Karmacode

Released April 4, 2006
http://www.lacunacoil.it/
If Hope Dies
Life In Ruin

Released March 7, 2006
http://www.myspace.com/
ifhopedies
This is Hell
Sundowning

Released May 16, 2006
http://www.thisishell.org/
Protest the Hero
Kezia

Released April 4, 2006
http://www.protestthehero.com/
Jewel
Goodbye Alice In Wonderland

Released May 2, 2006

Here are two albums I'm half and half on. The more I listen to the both of them, the more I like them. Diecast has a much better album than that garbage from 2004. Lamb of God flip-flops. Their first album was amazing, the next album blew, the 3rd album was amazing, now this one is ah.
Diecast
Internal Revolution

Released September 19, 2006
http://www.diecast1.net/
Lamb of God
Sacrament

Released August 22, 2006
http://www.lamb-of-god.com/

Biggest Disappointment for 2006: I don't think I had one this year. Everything I wanted and was looking forward too, sounded good.

Why didn't I buy this in 2005? Here are a bunch of CD's I didn't know existed until 2006, but they were released in 2005. I think I like some of these more than the ones I have picked up above.
Lamb of God
Killadelphia

Released December 13, 2005
http://www.lamb-of-god.com/
Animosity
Empires

Released August 23, 2005
http://www.animositysf.com/
Between the Buried and Me
Alaska

Released September 6, 2005
http://www.betweenthe
buriedandme.com/
Demon Hunter
The Triptych

Released October 25, 2005
http://www.demonhunter.net/
Byzantine
And They Shall Take Up Serpents

Released July 12, 2005
http://www.myspace.com/byzantine
Hinder
Extreme Behavior

Released September 27, 2005
http://www.hinderonline.com/
Flyleaf
Flyleaf

Released October 14, 2005
http://www.flyleafmusic.com/