Claus Melsen  
Important releases in 2006
Slayer - Christ Illusion (returning to the "old style" ala 'South of Heaven' / 'Seasons in the Abyss' (Lombardo rules!!!)).
Evergrey - Monday Morning Apocalypse
Vanden Plas - Christ O
Rage - Speak of the Dead (first half)
Live show 2006

Volbeat at Train in September really took me by surprise in a very positive way.
Saga - delivering the goods as usual...
Metal Church, Mortal Sin and Whitesnake at Wacken.

Newcomer 2006

None really earthshaking for me. All my new "discoveries" of 2006 were not newcomers.

Things you could have been without in 2006
In the music business - nothing really (except maybe the seemingly high focus on black and death metal at W:O:A - gimme power... it's better for partying!).
Overall - off course stuff like bad news on TV, lazy and stupid people in general, stress and not enough time for everything I want to do.
Biggest experience in 2006
Meeting and interviewing Jim Crichton (Saga), one of the most important bands for me ever; listening to and playing music.
Wishes for 2007
Getting a more active life in music than the later years, listening more to recorded and live music (thanks for receiving me so well on this page - that'll surely give me more oppertunities), and forming a new band to get to hammer my drums again.
Janus Lybro  
Important releases in 2006
1. Pretty Maids - Welcome to the Real World
2. Final Frontier - Freelight
3. Slamer - Nowhere Land
4. Wetton/Downes - Icon II: The Rubicon
5. Domain - Stardown
Live show 2006

Foreigner, Live in Sydney, May 2006

Newcomer 2006

Slamer

Things you could have been without in 2006
Exams!
Wishes for 2007
Better production on Frontiers Records' releases in general :)
Jørgen Ditlev  
Important releases in 2006
Pharaoh - The Longest Night
Dark Illusion - Beyond the Shadows
Warmachine - The Beginning of the End
Eidolon - The Parallel Otherworld
Live show 2006

Mambo Kurt at Wacken

Newcomer 2006

Aspire
Dark Illusion
Warmachine
Dream Quest
Widow

Things you could have been without in 2006
Iron Maiden playing the entire "A Matter of Life and Death" at the concert in Aalborg, damn it I wanted to hear the old stuff.
Wishes for 2007
Like every year a new Manowar album.

Kenn Jensen

 
Important releases in 2006
Trivium - The Crusade
Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
Andromeda - Chimera
Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
Live show 2006
King Diamond in Aarhus in May - awesome to catch the King early on the tour, and in such shape...
Newcomer 2006
Trivium
Seventh Wonder
Slamer
Titanium Black
Things you could have been without in 2006
Vicious Rumors - Warball (can't stand that album)
Wishes for 2007
I still hope for a Forbidden re-union!
Great albums from Symphony X, Ayreon, Dream Theater, Jag Panzer, Pain of Salvation & Threshold
The Malice re-union is worth the effort.

Peter Laursen

 
Important releases in 2006

Bloodbound - Nosferatu
Divinefire - Into a New Dimension
Dionysus - Fairytales and Reality
Abandoned - Thrash notes
Majesty - Hellforces
Marty Friedman - Loudspeaker
Psycroptic - Symbols of Failure
Slayer - Christ illusion
Sodom - Sodom
Contradiction - Warchitect
Paul Stanley - Live to Win
Reckless Tide - Helleraser
Evil Masquerade - Third act
Vader - Impressions in Blood
Domain - Stardawn
Hammerfall - Threshold
Firewind - Allegiance

Live show 2006
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Newcomer 2006

Bloodbound

Things you could have been without in 2006

Don't know where to start...

Wishes for 2007
Don't know where to start...
Thomas Nielsen  
Important releases in 2006
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
Illdisposed - Burn Me Wicked
Unleashed - Midwinterblot
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings

...there were many!

Live show 2006
Morbid Angel at Wacken or King Diamond at Train, Aarhus, Denmark.
It was great to see Morbid Angel with Dave Vincent again - a classic set.
King played a perfect gig in Aarhus - fantastic sound, fantastic voice.
Newcomer 2006
Dawn of Demise - New York style death metal from Silkeborg, Denmark.
Let's see what happens when they get that debut release done!
Things you could have been without in 2006
Wacken's A Night to Remember was not worth remembering at all!
Wishes for 2007
Metallica - back in metal?
Sabbat recording new material (please!)
Biggest disappointment:
Anthrax skipping John Bush for Belladonna.
Voivod's Katorz. Not good.