Palmarès de la rédaction 2016
127 albums en lice, le temps de recompter les votes, de bruler les bulletins et de jeter les urnes à la mer, voici les résultats : 

1. Megadeth – Dystopia.
2. Anaal Nathrakh – The Whole Of The Law.
3. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.
4. Opeth – Sorceress.
5. Spiritual Beggars – Sunrise To Sundown.
6. Revocation – Great is Our Sin.
7. Dark Tranquility – Atoma.
8.  Aborted – Retrogore.
9. Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep Of Reason.
10. Allegaeon – Proponent For Sentience.
11. Testament – Brotherhood of The Snake.
12. Marillion – F.E.A.R.
   
Les choix des chroniqueurs :

Baptiste    
1. Marillion – FEAR
2. Spiritual Beggars – Sunrise To Sundown
3. Kansas – The Prelude Implicite
Vinnie Moore – Aerial Visions, Rick Springfield – Rocket Experience, Megadeth – Dystopia, Steve Hackett – The Total Experience Live In Liverpool, Witchcraft – Nucleus, Nordic Union – S/t, UFO – A conspiracy Of Stars.

Chansons : Eldorado. 

Découverte : Michael Giacchino – BO Star Wars Rogue One.

Christophe 
01. Diamond Head – Diamond Head 
02. Metallica – Hardwired to Self distruct 
Megadeth – Dystopia 
Alter Bridge – The Last Hero, The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser – Rob Zombie,  Built To Last – Hammerfall 
Game Of Sins – Axel Rudi Pell, Ghostlights – Avantasia,  Bang, Zoom, Crazy… Hello – Cheap Trick, And Then She Came – And Then She Came 
– White Hot Heat – The Amorettes, Inglorious – Inglorious, Under The Influence – Foghat, Hollow Bones – Rival Sons, Grail Of Soul – Zodiac.

Decouvertes:
The Electric Alley, Inglorious & Maverick

Chansons: Nervosa – Wayfarer, Diamond Head – Bones
Videos: Disturbed – The sound of silence (c'est la seule dont je me souvienne)
Concerts/festo: Wacken Open Air – Dio Desciples & avec holo Dio.

Falcula
1 : Withered – Grief Relic 
Inverloch – Distance / Collapsed 
Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
2: Aenaon – HypnosophyGevurah – Hallelujah!, 3: Balance Interruption – Door218, 4: Hail Spirit Noir – Mayhem In Blue, 5: Nocte Obducta – Mogontiacum, 6: Void Cult Meditation – Utter the Tongue of the Dea
7: Antaeus – Condemnation, 8: Autokrator – The Obedience to Authority
9: Dejected Mass – Dirge, 10: Natvre's – Wrath, 11: The Slayerking – Sanatana Dharma, 12: Malemort – Ball Trap, 13: Colosso – Obnoxious
14: Terra Tenebrosa – The Reverses, 15: Barishi – Blood From The Lions Mouth.

Hamster
1. Spiritual Beggars – Sunrise To Sundown 
2. Revocation – Great Is Our Sin
3. Anaal Nathrakh -The Whole Of the Law
4. Dark Tranquility – Atoma, 5. Allegaeon – Proponent For Sentience, 6. Megadeth – Dystopia, 7. Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep Of Reason, 8. Metallica – Hardwired to self destruct, 9. Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake, 10. Brujeria – Pocho Aztlan, 11. Aborted – Retrogore, 12. Death Angel – The Evil Divide, 13. Asphyx – Incoming Death, 14. Sinsaenum – Echoes Of The Tortured, 15. Meshiaak – Alliance of Thieves, Be’lakor – Vessels, Destrage – A Means to No End.

Découvertes : Black Absinthe, Gyze, Hail Spirit Noir

Vidéo : Metallica – « Murder One »

Concerts : Summer Breeze : Agnostic Front , Iron Reagan, Soilwork, Unearth,  Arch Enemy, At The Gates,  Gyze et Testament.

Festivals : SUMMER BREEZE UBER ALLES.

Kadaf
1. Textures: Phenotype 
2. Trap The Crown feral
3. Oathbreaker: Rheia 
4. Touche Amore: stage four, 5. The Dillinger escape plan: Dissociation
6. Landmvarks: Hollow, 7. Cocain Piss: the dancer, 8. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.

Mister Patate
1. Anaal Nathrakh – The Whole Of The Law
2. Defeated Sanity – Disposal Of The Dead / Dharmata
3. Ulcerate – Shrines Of Paralysis
4. Allegaeon – Proponent For Sentience, 5. Cobalt – Slow Forever,6. Forteresse – Thèmes Pour la Rebéllion, 7. Revocation – Great Is Our Sin, 8. Aborted – Retrogore, 9.  Unfathomable Ruination – Finitude, 10. Numenorean – Home, 11. Unmerciful – Ravenous Impulse, 12. Fleddy Melculy – Helgië, 13. Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep Of Reason, 14. Diapsiquir – 180°, 15. Testament – Brotherhood Of the Snake.

Découvertes : Fleddy Melculy

Chansons : Anaal Nathrakh "Extravaganza" / "Of Horror, And The Black Shawls"

Vidéo : Fleddy Melculy "Brood'

Concerts : Agoraphobic Nosebleed au Netherlands Deathfest

Festivals : Netherlands Deathfest.

Murder One
– Axevyper – Into The Serpents Den
– Iron Curtain – Guilty As Charged
– Ascalon – Reflections (EP)
– Zach Slaughter – Nowhere (EP), Electric Shock – Burn Out (EP), Blazon Stone – War of the Roses, Blazon Stone – Ready For Boarding, Shoeïlager – Veuve Noire, Blizzen – Genesis Reversed, Monument – Hair of the Dog, Axxion – Back In Time, Lonewolf – The Heathen Dawn, Satan's Fall – Seven Nights (EP), Steve Grimmett's Grim Reaper – Walking in the Shadows, Lady Beast – Metal Immortal (EP).

Nathanael.
01. Suicidal Tendencies – World Gone Mad
02. Anaal Nathrakh – The Whole Of The Law
03. Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future
04. 69 – Heroïc, 05. Death In Vegas – Transmission, 06. Prophets Of Rage – Prophets Of Rage, 07. Arnaud Rebotini – Désillusions, 08. Banks and Steelz – Anything But Words, 09. MSTRKRFT – OPERATOR, 10. Nisennenmondai – Nisennenmondai, 11. PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project, 12. Primal Scream – Chaosmosis, 13. De La Soul – And The Anonymous Nobody, 14. Pixies – Head Carrier, 15. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.

Découvertes : Anaal Nathrakh

Chansons : Iron Reagan – « A Dying World », Disiz la peste – « Grande Colère », Portishead « SOS (Abba Cover) », Vald – « Bonjour »

Vidéo : DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels – « Nobody Speak »

Festivals : Rabastock.

Nico
01. Church Of Misery – And Then There Were None…
02. Inquisition – Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith
03. Opeth – Sorceress
04. Crippled Black Phoenix – Bronze, 05. Cauchemar – Chapelle Ardente, 06. Mercyless – Pathetic Divinity, 07. Gojira – Magma, 08. Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder, 09. Destroyer 666 – Wildfire, 10. Blues Pills – Lady In Gold, 11. Phazm – Scornful Of Icons, 12. Kverlertak – Nattesferd, 13. Abbath – Abbath, 14. Wormfood – L’envers, 15. Entombed A.D – Dead Dawn.

Découvertes : Honeymoon Disease / Psychobolia

Chansons : Opeth – « Persephone », Gojira – « Stranded », Kverlertak – « 1985 », Entombed A.D – « Down to Mars to ride », Cauchemar – « Nécromantie »

Vidéo : Entombed A.D – « The winner has lost », Metallica – « Murder One »

Concerts : Der Weg Einer Freiheit – 19 Mars au Glazart (Paris), Wormfood – 26 Juin au Klub (Paris), Cult Of Luna/Mayhem – 
20 Aout au Motocultor (St Nolff), Dead Congregation – 1 Novembre au Ferrailleur (Nantes).

Festivals : Motocultor/Muscadeath

Ohyrya
01. DARK TRANQUILITY – Atoma
02. DREAM THEATER – The Astonishing
03. IN FLAMES – Battles
04. THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – Wilderness,
05. GHOST – Popestar (EP), 05. KATATONIA – The Fall of Hearts, 06. SONATA ARCTICA – The Ninth Hour, 07. OPETH – Sorceress, 08. MARILLION – FEAR, 09. AMON AMARTH – Jomsviking, 10. JEAN-MICHEL JARRE – Oxygène 3, 11. EQUILIBRIUM – Armageddon, 12. CREMATORY – Monument, 13. LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY – Prometheus: The dolby atmos experience, 14. NIGHTWISH – Vehicle of spirit, 15. AVANTASIA – Ghostlights.

Poney
1. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
2. Testament – Brotherhood Of the Snake
3. Aborted – Retrogore
4. Megadeth – Dystopia, 5. Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep Of Reason, 6. Trap Them – Crown Feral, 7. Opeth – Sorceress, 8. Oathbreaker – Rheia