Comme la tradition le veut chaque année, tous nos chroniqueurs vous dévoilent leurs découvertes et leurs coups de cœur ! Voyons les sorties 2018 qui ont accompagné les journées de ceux-ci !

Morrigan

Top Albums :

1.Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind of Horror
2. Cân Bardd – The Nature Stays Silent
3. Svartidauði – Revelations of the Red Sword
4. Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
5. Bucovina – Septentrion
6. Firtan – Okeanos
7. Wiegedood – De doden hebben het goed III
8. Uada – Cult of a Dying Sun
9. A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
10. Aorlhac – L’Esprit des Vents

Top Concerts :

1- Celeste / Motocultor Festival
2- Wardruna / Château des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes
3- Rotting Christ / Le Ferrailleur
4- Dur Dabla / Lid ar Morrigan

Deathslid

Top Albums :

1. Yob – Our Raw Heart
2. The Armed – Only Love
3. Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
4. Svalbard – It’s Hard To Have Hope
5. Piniol – Bran Coucou
6. Birds In Row – We Already Lost The World
7. Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury
8. Attan – End Of
9. Sectioned – Annihilated
10. Thou – Magus

Top Albums Hors Metal :

1. 春と修羅 (Haru Nemuri) – 春と修羅 (harutosyura)
2. Koenji Hyakkei – DHORIMVISKHA
3. 沼澤 (Zhaoze) – 争鸣 (Birds Contending)
4. Onségen Ensemble – Duel
5. Sarah Longfield – Disparity
6. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage
7. Hórmónar – Nanananabùbù
8. Medine – Storyteller
9. Virta – Hurmos
10 . Nadah El Shazly – Ahwar

Top Split/Demo/Ep

1. Coma Regalia / Drei Affen
2. Vegan Fox – Vegetables
3. Closet Witch – S/t
4. Converge – Beautiful Ruin
5. McClane – Pas De Veine
6. Thou / Ragana – Let Our Names Be Forgotten
7. Problem of Pain – I Will Always Want To Let Go
8. Envy – Alnair In August
9. Regnvm Animale – Brinna / Norn – Brenna
10. Seeyouspacecowboy – Fashion Statements of the Socially Aware

Top Artworks :

1. Gorod – Æthra
2. Улыбайся Ветру – Иллюзии
3. Spaceslug – Eye The Tide
4. Maladie – Of Harm and Salvation
5. Holywood Burns – Invaders

Top Concerts :

1. Amenra @ Transbordeur, Villeurbanne, 2/10/18
2. YOB @ L’Épicerie Moderne, Feyzin, 24/10/18
3. Rolo Tomassi @ Le Farmer, Lyon, 22/03/18
4. Nesseria @ La Gueule Noire, Saint Etienne, 23/02/18
5. Birds in Row @ Le Farmer, Lyon, 18/06/18
6. GRAI @ Le Blogg, Lyon, 3/07/18
7. Obscure Sphinx @ Transbordeur, Villeurbanne, 2/10/18
8. Morse @ Le Farmer, Lyon 18/06/18
9. La P’tite Fumée @ Yzeures’n’Rock, Yzeures sur Creuse, 6/08/18

Albums attendus en 2019 :

Pensées Nocturnes, Nesseria, This Gift is a Curse, Downfall Of Gaïa, Verdun, Mono

Fée Verte

Top Albums :

1. Sojourner – The Shadowed Road
2. Grimner – Vanadrottning
3. Antigone’s Fate – Insomnia
4. Avast – Mother Culture
5. Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
6. Firtan – Okeanos
7. Bucovina – Septentrion
8. Harakiri for the Sky – Arson
9. Décembre Noir – Autumn Kings
10. Unreqvited – Mosaic I : L’Amour et l’Ardeur

Top Albums Hors Metal :

1. God Is An Astronaut – Epitaph
2. Toundra – Vortex
3. Crippled Black Phoenix – Great Escape

Top Split/Demo/Ep :

1. Veldes – Storm Borrower
2. Anomalie – Integra
3. Psychonaut 4 / Nocturnal Depression – Children of the Night

Top Artworks :

1. Unreqvited – Stars Wept to the Sea
2. Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
3. Harakiri for the Sky – Arson
4. Unreqvited – Mosaic I : L’Amour et l’Ardeur
5. Kalmah – Palo

Top Concerts :

1. Sojourner (Warhorns Festival)
2. Dark Tranquillity (Paris)
3. Moonsorrow (Paris)
4. Munarheim (Inglorious Night, Cobourg)
5. Grimner (Paris)
6. God Is An Astronaut (Paris)
7. The Sparks (Toulouse)
8. Kalmah (Warhorns Festival)

Top Découvertes :

White Ward, Astronoid

Déceptions 2018 :

Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest

Albums attendus en 2019 :

Insomnium, Munarheim, Atlas Pain

HeronMaiden

Top Albums :

1. Harakiri for the sky – Arson
2. Uada – Cult of a dying sun
3. Underoath – Erase Me
4. Més – Through the eyes of…
5. Kambrium – Dawn of the five suns
6. Nekrogoblikon – Welcome to bonkers
7. Fable – Wisdom
8. Délétère – De Horae Leprae
9. JBO – Deutsche Vita
10. Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

Top Albums Hors Metal :

1. Corvus corax – Skal
2. The Sidh – Another way to fly
3. Feuerschwanz – Methämmer
4. Omnia – Reflexions
5. Steve’n’seagulls – Grainsville

Top Split/Demo/Ep :

1. Anomalie – Integra
2. Rotting Christ – The Call

Top Artworks :

1. Uada – Cult of a Dying Sun
   
2. Harakiri for the sky – Arson
   
3. Délétère – De Horae Leprae
4. Més – Through the Eyes Of …
5. Corvus Corax – Skal

Top Concerts :

1. Furia (In Theatrum Denonium + Le Ferrailleur)
2. Harakiri for the sky (Paris, Colmar, Mannheim)
3. Uada (Arlon, Paris, Colmar)
4. Corvus Corax (Saarbrücken)
5. Alcest + Vampillia (La Roche sur Yon, Paris)

Top Découvertes :

Underoath, Furia, Schammasch, Wolves in the throne room, Nekrogoblikon

Déceptions 2018 :

Summoning – With doom we come, L’arrêt de la carrière de Burzum,
Le sold out des 25 ans du RockHarz (et donc l’impossibilité de m’y rendre), L’affiche d’In Theatrum Denonium 2019 (enfin, surtout la tête d’affiche)

Albums attendus en 2019 :

Rotting Christ, Orden Ogan, Anomalie

Nidhögg

Top Albums :

1. Sojourner – The Shadowed Road
2. Vermilia – Kätkyt
3. Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
4. Dalriada – Nyárutó
5. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
6. Uada – Cult Of A Dying Sun
7. Kalmah – Palo
8. Cor Scorpii – Ruin
9. Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
10. Skálmöld – Sorgir

Top Split/Demo/Ep :

1. Anomalie – Integra
2. Myrkur – Juniper

Top Concerts :

1. Ayreon – Graspop Metal Meeting 22/06/18
2. Watain – Graspop Metal Meeting 22/06/18
3. Ensiferum Acoustic – Chez Paulette, Pagney-Derrière-Barrine, 14/12/18
4. Sojourner – Black Winter Fest, Parme, 01/12/18
5. Ereb Altor – Blogg, Lyon, 23/02/18
6. Dark Tranquillity – CCO, Lyon, 08/04/18
7. Myrkur – Garage, Saarbrucken, 05/05/18
8. The Great Old Ones – Outch Festival, 27/05/18
9. Sylvaine – Petit Bain, Paris, 02/11/18
10. Wolfheart – Petit Bain, Paris, 19/11/18

Top Découvertes :

Vermilia, Black Reaper

Déceptions 2018 :

Summoning, Dimmu Borgir, Wardruna

Albums attendus en 2019 :

Insomnium, Finntroll, Myrkur, Naglfar, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Månegarm

Taarna

Top Albums :

1. Myrkur – Juniper
2. Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
3. Wardruna – Skald
4. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
5. Dimmu Borgir – Eonian

Top Artworks :

1. Gorod – Aethra
2. Conan – Existential Void Guardian
3. Khemmis – Desolation
4. Tribulation – Down Below
5. Eisbrecher – Ewiges Eis

Top Concerts :

1. COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER (L’Homme Sauvage Festival, le 29 septembre 2018)
2. Cannibal Corpse (Toulouse, le 2 mars 2018)

Albums attendus en 2019 :

Myrkur, Children of Bodom, Static-X, Primitive Man

Brynhildr

Top Albums :

1. Avatar – Avatar Country
2. Arstidir – Nivalis
3. Ultra Vomit – Panzer Surprise
4. Aktarum – Ragnatroll
5. Myrath – Dance (single)

Top Albums Hors Metal :

1. The Sidh – Another Way to Fly
2. Lindsey Stirling

Top Concerts :

1. Trikhorn – Oupeye (BE)
2. Alice Cooper – Olympia (75)
3. Avatar – Trianon (75)
4. Little Big – Machine du Moulin Rouge (75)
5. Grimner – Toter Fish – Drenai – Le Klub (75)
6. Trollfest – Heidevolk – Arkona – Korpiklaani – Elysée Montmartre (75)
7. Alestorm – Elysée Montmartre (75)

Top Découvertes :

Blodiga Skald, The Dead Crew of Oddwood,
The Sidh

Xartyna

Top Albums :

1. Elderwind – The Colder the Night
2. Bloodbark – Bonebranches
3. Black Reaper – Celestial Descension
4. Cân bardd – Nature Stays Silent
5. Harakiri for the Sky – Arson
6. Mesarthim – The Density Parameter
7. Sojourner – The Shadowed Road
8. Ein – Lethargic Breakthrough
9. Realm of Wolves – Oblivion
10. Nazrak – Cantiques Funèbres

Top Albums Hors Metal :

1. Paleowolf – Archetypal
2. God Is An Astronaut – Epitaph

Top Split/Demo/Ep :

1. Elderwind / Sorrow Plagues / De la Nostalgie / Dreams of Nature – Mater Natura Excelsa
2. Mesarthim – Coma Wall
3. Realm of Wolves – Shores of Nothingness
4. Veldes – Storm Borrower

Top Concerts :

1. Cult of Fire – CCO, Lyon
2. Batushka – CCO, Lyon
3. Dark Tranquillity – CCO, Lyon
4. Ex Deo – La Belle Electrique , Grenoble

Top Découvertes :

Vvilderness, Altars of Grief, Lamentation Of The Falling Snow/Howling, Uada, Euclidean, Ghost Brigade

Axoria

Top Albums :

1. Elderwind – Sorrow Plagues – De La Nostalgie – Dreams of nature – Mater Natura Excelsa
2. Sylvaine – Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
3. Runahild – Seidsang
4. Clouds – Dor
5. Severoth – When the night falls…
6. Aeonian Sorrow – Into The Eternity A Moment We Are
7. The Sidh – Another way to fly
8. Harakiri for the sky – Arson
9. Vermilia – Katkyt
10. Orphaned Land : Unsung prophets and dead messiahs

Top Concerts :

1. Sylvaine / Clouds / Funeral – AMUZ Antwerpen (Belgique)
2. Eivor / Prima Nocta / The Sidh – Castlefest Lisse (Pays Bas)
3. Uada / Der rote Milan – L’entrepôt Arlon (Belgique)
4. Skeptical Minds – Wol’n bak festival Woluwe St Lambert (Belgique)
5. Penumbra / Asylum Pyre / Alwaid – Red Studio Douai (France)

Toxicomélomane

Top Albums :

1. Wallachia – Monumental Heresy
2. Powerwolf – The Sacrament of Sin
3. Ghost – Prequelle
4. Tamerlan Empire – Age of Ascendancy
5. Heidevolk – Vuur Van Verzet
6. Beyond the Black – Heart of the Hurricane
7. Amaranthe – Helix
8. Wergeld – Imperium Delecta
9. Rumahoy – The Triumph of Piracy
10. Orphaned Land – Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs

Top Albums Hors Metal :

1. Eddy de Pretto – Cure
2. Auri – Auri
3. Will Barber – Alone
4. Johnny Hallyday – Mon pays, c’est l’amour

Top Artworks :

1. Ghost – Prequelle
2. Powerwolf – The Sacrament of Sin
3. Heidevolk – Vuur Van Verzet

Top Découvertes :

Wallachia
Tamerlan Empire
The Hu

Top Concerts :

1. Nightwish / Beast in Black à Paris Accor Hotel Arena
2. Ghost/Powerwolf/Doro/Heat à Colmar
3. Ensiferum/Ex Deo/Wind Rose à Pratteln
4. Luc Arbogast à Sausheim

Déceptions :

Lordi – Sexorcism

Attente pour 2019 :

Gorgon, Skald, Beast in Black, Atlas Pain, Eluveitie, Battle Beast, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Myrath