So what albums are people looking forward to next year?
I am waiting to hear "Part 2" by Throbbing Gristle, "Devour, Rise, and Take Flight" by Android Lust and the new Suicide Commando album.

I dont really know anything about any of the bands I listen to so I can only think of one.
Theatre of tragedy - Storm

Radiohead might release something! *hophophop*

I'm really excited about Mushroomhead's upcoming album. They have a new vocalist so they're looking to use some of his talents. He won't rap as much and he'll be using his normal scream (which is higher than the old vocalist's). He'll be doing a lot of harmonizing with the other vocalist and be using what they call the "Chester scream" (as in Chester from Linkin Park, which started off as a joke). He described it as "Pink Floyd meets Black Sabbath." I'm so stoked.

There should be a new Muse album out in May. I'm really looking forward to that.

Sikth are releasing Death of a Dead Day, which is very exciting.

The Shins' new album is likely to be called Sleeping Lessons.

Graham Coxon; Love Travels At Illegal Speeds.

Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green are collaborating as Gnarls Barkley. Leaked material sounds absolutely stunning.

Mr. Beast is the name of Mogwai's new album. Again, leaked tracks sound wicked.

Radiohead? Here's hoping. And hopefully it'll be better than that gash-awful War Child song they tossed off.

If we're lucky, in 2006, Keane will all die from malignant tumors and Chris Martin will suffocate under the weight of his own smug self-satisfaction.

Throbbing Gristle are releasing stuff again? Why? They defined the edge of the new wave at the time when most of the world was going prog, so what on earth are they doing now? I'm pretty curious... Which is probably the point. Maybe they figured that there's good money to be made and they might as well make it.

Future Sound Of London have rumoured that they will finally release a new proper album (as opposed to the hippy stuff that they've released as Amorphous Androgynous) but I've been waiting nine years for it already so I'm not holding my breath...

They put out a limited edition EP last year called tgnow, I haven't listend to it it but I have heard its good, apparently it sounds like a mix of older Throbbing Gristle and Coil

the Sisters Of Mercy website says that they are going to release something as soon as they find someone "with enough muscle to distribute it" but they've been saying that for years now then again i reckon that they probably lost their edge years ago.

NIN won't be releasing anything for at least 3 years they only just released stuff.

Tori Amos may or may not, depends if the pixies tell her to or not.

and somwhere along the line i missed a Rammstein album this year so I doubt if they are relasing next year.

And Jim Morrison is dead!

NIN should refrain from ever recording anything ever again. Trent Reznor should just stop doing anything. Like breathing.

Tori Amos should also quit writing and recording. She's just embarrassing herself now.

What Bryden?! Jim is dead? When did that happen?!*

I am looking forward to another Incubus album, yet I know I will be dissappointed with it. I also hope that The Smashing Pumpkins will suddenly reform and make another album and it will be wonderous. Or that Billy Corgan's solo stuff is good for once.

We can only dream....

*I am being silly. I do realise that he died of heart failure in the bath in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27. Not that I am in love with a dead man, when he was aged 21. Nope. Not at all....

I'm so sorry but when I think about it, the album I am most looking forward to this year is Fightstar's. I hope you can all look past that, and maybe one day we can be friends again.

Emerald Rose (my favorite obscure Celtic American folk rock band) is planning to release a funny CD featuring tracks with names like "Vulcan Rubdown." Good stuff. I'll be watching their website. I haven't heard of most of the stuff in this thread because I live in a popular music black hole.

you know i should get angry at this i should open up cans of verbal whoop arse, but i can't he;p but feel, deep down in my little fans heart that you are in fact right and that they have both fully gone past the point of good recordings.

(but i did like hand that feeds off of nins latest, even if it was a bit lame compared to earlier stuff)

You know the secret rule that Robocop has in his directory? You might have just broken the secret rule of my forums...

Ah, I forgot to mention The Arctic Monkeys album that should be out early next year. Looking forward to that 'un too.

*pats Mata* I know nothing about Fightstar, but if it's not anything to do with rap then it must have some redeeming value if you look hard enough.

Theirs nothing wrong with a bit of rap (not counting the crap in the top 40 such as 50 cent)

Fightstar are a band with that bloke from busted

I can see that one being excellent, then getting very old, very quickly.

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The DFA remix of The Hand That Feeds was ace; nine minutes of NIN at the disco, complete with cowbell. Wonderful.

Also, rap is wicked. I am looking forward very much to the Gnarls Barkley project, and rumours are that MF Doom and Mad Lib are working on another Madvillain album in the new year.

Rap seems to mainly have turned into hiphop, and cLOUDdEAD produced one of my favourite albums of th last year, so there is definite potential there. Hiphop has great possibilities but it really needs to get over the guns/hos/drugs thing and embrace its own history of social observation in the same way that the singer/songwriter paradigm has been doing in recent years.

cLOUDDEAD are all kinds of fantastic. Have you checked out any of the numerous side-projects? Mostly they're Doseone's, including Subtle, Themselves and 13 & God (who produced one of the most blinding albums of '05); he's also got a solo album and a collaboratio with Boom Bip. Why? collaborated with Fog to produce Hymie's Basement in 2003, and he's also got a couple of solo albums, as has Odd Nosdam, 'though I've not checked those out yet.

Sadly, I think it's unlikely there'll be another cLOUDDEAD album. Or if there is, it's going to be a long time coming.

Right, but so wrong. Son Of Dork are a band with a bloke from Busted. Fightstar are a band with a bloke who left busted because he wanted to make better music.

Notice the subtle difference?

if you want to be padantic then it still has the bloke from busted so I am still correct
on topic, I have recently found out about a band called all gone dead who have their first album comeing out this year, I am looking forward to that

I have to agree with you there. In that respect, it'll be rather like Kaiser Chiefs' Employment.

It's not really working out for him, is it? Referencing Palahniuk doesn't make you literate, it makes you a pretentious knob. Unless you're Biffy Clyro, and then a song title taken from a line buried deep in Choke is kinda cunning.

*Shudder*
That got old before it got released. (I got to hear it before it was released due to knowing the guy who did the artwork)

Their music just doesn't do it for me. It is akin to biting on a towel- that squeaky sound/ feeling you get.

Getting back to albums in 2006, I am hoping to beable to get a hold of this chap's album/ CD/ any recording he might possibly have I just love how much of a contrast it is to the rest of the "stuff" out there at the moment. I'm sure there are many people who sound like him (and vice versa) but it just seems... special.

Very excited for The Pipettes!

Grrr... The Pipettes.
They have been forced upon me by a friend who lives in Brighton, and who is besotted with Rose. I just don't get the appeal- but each to their own.

Aw, but they're so much fun!

I think they're one of those bands that I probably wouldn't love so much if I hadn't discovered them quite by accident, late one January in the 100 Club. They were such a surprise, and they made everyone in the room dance. Each time I see them, I grin and shake my bum. The songs are good, and I enjoy listening to them, but they're best seen performing.