Référendum 2012 : 86 albums en lice à départager (11 de moins que le cru 2011). La majorité de la rédaction s'est prononcée, le temps de cuver et de bruler les urnes, et de se concentrer sur l'essentiel, voici les résultats :

1Napalm Death Utilitarian
2. Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas 
Aborted – Global Flatline

4. Kreator – Phantom Antichrist

5. The CNK – Revisionnisme

6. Luca Turilli – Ascending To Infinity

7. Testament – Dark Roots Of Earth


8. Cattle Decapitation – Monolith Of Unhumanity

9. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind

10. Blut Aus Nord – 777 Cosmosophy

Le palmarès en détail pour chacun des chroniqueurs qui se sont prononcés :

Aske :
Napalm Death : Utilitarian / CNK : Revisionnisme / 7 weeks : Play dead of night / Nothnegal : Decadence / Sybreed : God is an automaton / Yossi sassi : Melting clock / Spawn of possession : Incurso / Deftones :Koi No Yokan / Destruction :Spiritual Genocide / Burzum : Umskiptar

Baptiste
1. Kreator – Phantom Antichrist 2. Marillion – Sounds That Can't Be Made 3. Jon Lord – Concerto For Group And Orchestra 4. Unisonic 5. Black Country Communion – Afterglow 6. Testament – Dark Roots Of The Earth 7. Gotthard – Firebirth 8. AOR – Colors Of LA 9. Withcraft – Legend 10. Europe – Bag of Bones

Castor :
Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity / Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas / Aborted – Global Flatline/ Grave – Endless Procession of Souls / Goatwhore – Blood For The Master / Malnatt – Principia Discordia / Psycroptic – The Inherited Repression / Napalm Death – Utilitarian / Ex Deo – Caligvla / Kataklysm – Iron Will

Clayman :
Hypno5e – Acid Mist Tomorrow / Allegaeon – Formshifter / Be'Lakor – Of Breath and Bone / Destinity – Resolve in crimson / Eluveitie – Helvetios / Gloria Morti – Lateral Constraint / Kreator – Phantom Antichrist / T.A.N.K. (Think Of A New Kind) – Spasms Of Upheaval / Luca Turilli's Rhapsody – Ascending to Infinity / Before The Dawn – Rise Of The Phoenix

Hamster :
1. Aborted – The Global Flatline 2. Skepticism – Farmakon 3. Testament – Dark Roots Of The Earth 4. All Hail The Yeti 5. Gorod – A Perfect Absolution 6. Sylosis – Monolith 7. Kreator – Phantom Antechrist 8. Dew Scented – Icarus 9. Tiamat – The Scarred People 10. Lamb Of God – Resolution.

Mister Patate
Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas / The Project Hate – TCRA / Murder Construct – Results / Deftones – Koi No Yokan / Aborted – Global Flatline / Eïs – Wetterkreuz / Gloria Morti – Lateral onstraint / BAN – 777 – Cosmosophy / Hour of Penance – Sedition / Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity

Nico :
1. Napalm Death – Utilitarian 2. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind 3. Vision of disorder – The cursed remain cursed 4. Kadavar – Kadavar 5. Nachtmystium – Silencing machine 6. Biohazard – Reborn in defiance 7. Sonne Adam – Messenger of desolate ways 8. Bad Brains – Into the future
9. Enslaved – RIITIIR 10. Asphyx – Deathammer

Oshyrya
01. Luca Turilli – Ascending to Infinity 02. Wintersun – Time I 03. Kamelot – Silverthorn 04. Gazpacho – March of Ghosts 05. Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri – Not The Weapon But The Hand 06. Holy Knights – Between Daylight and Pain 07. Mass Hysteria – L'Armée des ombres 08. Munruthel – CREEDamage 09. Skálmöld – Börn Loka 10. The Stranded – Survivalism Boulevard

Ymishima :
1. Shining – Redefining Darkness 2. Glaciation – 1994 3. Necroblaspheme – XXVI The Deeper The Better (excellente longévité pour quelque chose d'aussi court, j'en reviens pas)  4. The CNK – Révisionnisme 5. Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Cosmosophy 6. Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas 7. Cowards – Shooting Blanks&Pills 8. Sale Freux – L'Exil 9. Decline Of The I – Inhibition 10. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind