Decibel's Top 40 Albums Of The Year List 28 Nov 2006
1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2. Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights
3. Converge - No Heroes
4. Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
5. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
6. Jesu - Silver
7. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
8. Enslaved - Ruun
9. Tragedy - Nerve Damage
10. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
11. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
12. Burst - Origo
13. Isis - In the Absence of Truth
14. Akercocke - Words...
15. Taint - The Ruin of Nova Roma

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"Battle of Mice Named Number One Independent Album on Decibel Magazine's Top 40 Albums of the Year! The Band's Members of Red Sparowes and Made Out of Babies Pitted Against Each Other Create Ferocious, Beautiful Music Mixed with Physical Confrontation. In a year filled with numerous big releases as underground metal gains considerable mainstream acceptance, the Neurot Recordings debut by Battle of Mice is the top ranked independent label release on Decibel Magazine's Top 40 Albums of 2006 . The album, A Day of Nights won the Number Two position (Mastodon's major label debut snagging first place), beating out highly-esteemed and critically-praised new albums by Converge, Isis, Mogwai, Boris and even Iron Maiden!"