The best 50 albums of 2006 according to Rock Zone staff were published in issue #22:
1. MASTODON “Blood Mountain”
2. RISE AGAINST “The Sufferer & the Witness”
3. MUSE “Black Holes & Revelations”
4. DEFTONES “Saturday Night Wrist”
5. THE MARS VOLTA “Amputechture”
6. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE “The Black Parade”
7. AFI “Decemberunderground”
8. TOOL “10,000 Days”
9. TAKING BACK SUNDAY “Louder Now”
10. TRIVIUM “The Crusade”
The rest in alphabetical order:
• AMPLIFIER “Insider”
• ANGELS & AIRWAVES “We Don’t Need to Whisper”
• THE BELLRAYS “Have a Little Faith”
• BILLY TALENT “Billy Talent II”
• BLEEDING THROUGH “The Truth”
• BOB DYLAN “Modern Times”
• BOYSETFIRE “The Misery Index: Notes From the Plague Years”
• BRAND NEW “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me”
• THE BRONX “The Bronx”
• COMETS ON FIRE “Avatar”
• CONVERGE “No Heroes”
• DAMONE “Out Here All Night”
• THE DRESDEN DOLLS “Yes, Virginia”
• ENVY “Insomniac Doze”
• THE FORMAT “Dog Problems”
• GNARLS BARKLEY “St. Elsewhere”
• GOJIRA “From Mars to Sirius”
• HEAD AUTOMATICA “Popaganda”
• IN FLAMES “Come Clarity”
• KILLSWITCH ENGAGE “As Daylight Dies”
• LAMB OF GOD “Sacrament”
• LOSTPROPHETS “Liberation Transmission”
• MELVINS “(A) Senile Animal”
• MURDER BY DEATH “In Bocca al Lupo”
• NAPALM DEATH “Smear Campaign”
• NEAL CASAL “No Wish to Reminisce”
• NEKO CASE “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood”
• PANIC! AT THE DISCO “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”
• PEARL JAM “Pearl Jam”
• PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS “Mercy”
• SLAYER “Christ Illusion”
• SWORN ENEMY “The Beginning of the End”
• THURSDAY “A City By the Light Divided”
• TOM WAITS “Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards”
• TV ON THE RADIO “Return to Cookie Mountain”
• TWO GALLANTS “What the Toll Tells You”
• UNDEROATH “Define the Great Line”
• UNEARTH “III: In the Eyes of Fire”
• WOLFMOTHER “Wolfmother”
• WOVEN HAND “Mosaic”

And the best Spanish albums:
1. STANDSTILL “Vivalaguerra”
2. TENPEL “Areté despierta”
3. GREEN MANALISHI “Green Manalishi”
4. THE CAPACES “Amplifired”
5. HAMLET “Pura vida”
And the rest in alphabetical order:
• APHONNIC “Foolproof!”
• CAT PEOPLE “Reel #1”
• DELOREAN “Into the Plateau”
• G.A.S. DRUMMERS “Standards Down”
• GHOULS’N’GHOSTS “Ghouls’n’Ghosts”
• HALF FOOT OUTSIDE “Perfect From the Distance”
• HABEAS CORPUS “Basado en una historia real”
• KANNON “Destino”
• LA HABITACIÓN ROJA “Dirán que todo fue un sueño”
• LENDAKARIS MUERTOS “Se habla español”
• LIQUID SUN “Aérea”
• MOHO “He visto la cruz al revés”
• MONKEY DO “Mutation”
• MORGANA VS. MORGANA “Nébula”
• MULETRAIN “The Worst Is Yet to Come”
• PERSONA “Accident”
• THE RIPPERS “Nomelêc’s Revenge”
• THE UNFINISHED SYMPATHY “We Push, You Pull”
• UZZHUAÏA “Uzzhuaïa”
• VIRGEN “Primera vez”


And Zona Zero, the web-page of Rockzone, had published its own best of 2006. A very similar list, but the critics are not the same of Rockzone. See http://zona-zero.net/modules.php?name=Promos&cshow=TopStaff06

Best international albums:
1. DEFTONES “Saturday Night Wrist”
2. TOOL “10,000 Days”
3. MUSE “Black Holes & Revelations”
4. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE “The Black Parade”
5. TRIVIUM “The Crusade”
6. LAMB OF GOD “Sacrament”
7. ISIS “In the Absence of Truth”
8. MASTODON “Blood Mountain”
9. IN FLAMES “Come Clarity”
10. CONVERGE “No Heroes”
11. THE DRESDEN DOLLS “Yes, Virginia”
12. THURSDAY “A City By the Light Divided”
13. INCUBUS “Light Grenades”
14. MINUS THE BEAR “Menos el Oso”
15. SWORN ENEMY “The Beginning of the End”
16. BOYSETFIRE “The Misery Index: Notes From the Plague Years”
17. TWENTY INCH BURIAL “Radio Venom”
18. NOSFELL “Kälin Bla Lemsnit Dünfel Labyanit”
19. MISERY INDEX “Discordia”
20. THE MARS VOLTA “Amputechture”

And the best Spanish albums:
1. STANDSTILL “Vivalaguerra”
2. TENPEL “Areté despierta”
3. NUEVENOVENTAICINCO “BSO y otros”
4. MORGANA VS. MORGANA “Nébula”
5. HAMLET “Pura vida”
6. HORA ZULU “El que la lleva la entiende”
7. UNREAL OVERFLOWS “Architecture of Incomprehension”
8. CORDURA “La ridícula mecánica de la vida moderna”
9. LEGEN BELTZA “Dimension of Pain”
10. BRAINJUICE “Æquilibrium”
11. APHONNIC “Foolproof!”
12. IVÁN FERREIRO “Las siete y media”
13. OJOS DE BRUJO “Techarí”
14. HYBRID “Beyond Undeniable Entropy”
15. VIRGEN “Primera vez”
16. LIQUID SUN “Aérea”
17. HABEAS CORPUS “Basado en una historia real”
18. V.V.A.A. “Waterloo”
19. RUNIC “Liar Flags”
20. CODE NAME “Bizarre Action Figures”