Riche en découvertes, en retours fracassants et en confirmations, l’année 2025 s’est révélée particulièrement foisonnante sur le plan discographique. Les coups de cœur de notre rédaction, aussi subjectifs et éclectiques soient-ils, n’en dessinent pas moins certaines tendances que nous vous proposons d’explorer.

 

Cédric Ferret

    1. Stillbirth – Survival Protocol

    2. Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence

    3. Depravity – Bestial Possession

    4. Warbringer – Wrath and Ruin

    5. Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath

    6. Dream Theater – Parasomnia

    7. Cytotoxin – Biographyte

    8. Coroner – Dissonance Theory

    9. Testament – Para Bellum

    10. Unleashed – Fire upon Your Lands

   
Marc A

    1. Avatarium – Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead
    2. Coroner – Dissonance Theory
    3. Paradise Lost – Ascension
    4. Katatonia – Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
    5. Biohazard – Divided We Fall
    6. Esthesis – Out of Step
    7. Leprous – An Evening of Atonement
    8. Byzantine – Harbingers
    9. Humming Whale – Chasing Rabbits
    10. Asira – As Ink in Water
   
Thierry Montrieux

    1. Mezzrow – Embrace the Awakening
    2. Dark Angel – Extinction Level Event
    3. Bark – The Time has Come
    4. Mason – Martyr
    5. Benediction – Ravage of Empires
    6. Wings of Steel – Winds of Time
    7. Baest – Colossal
    8. Sacrifice – Volume Six
    9. Ravager – From Us with Hate
    10. Martyr – Dark Believer
   
Hugo Weyermann

    1. Cytotoxin – Biographyte
    2. Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble
    3. Kneel Before the Death – Kneel Before the Death
    4. Wrath of Logarius – Crown of Mortis
    5. Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence
    6. Revocation – New Gods, New Masters
    7. Demon King – Death Knell
    8. Nattverd – Tidloes Naadesloes
    9. Carach Angren – The Cult of Kariba
    10. Stillbirth – Survival Protocol
   
Nathan Bonzon

    1. Blood Abscission – II
    2. Der Weg einer Freiheit – Innern
    3. Sunken – Lykke
    4. Harakiri for the Sky – Scorched Earth
    5. Psycho-Frame – Salvation Laughs in the Face of a Grieving Mother
    6. Ancst – Dominion
    7. DeathFuckingWound – Void MMXXV
    8. Irr – Remains Remain
    9. Messa – The Spin
    10. Bludgeoned by Deformity – Epoch of Immorality
   
Ségolène Cugnod

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    1. Deafheaven – Lonely People with Power
    2. Sunken – Lykke
    3. Messa – The Spin
    4. Der Weg einer Freiheit – Innern
    5. (ex-aequo) Labÿrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye / Darktribe – Forgotten Reveries
    6. Paradise Lost – Ascension
    7. Psychonaut – World Maker
    8. Saor – Amidst the Ruins
    9. 1914 – Viribus Unitis
    10. Coroner – Dissonance Theory
   
Paul Tergeist

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    1. Dirkschneider and the Old Gang – Babylon
    2. Ghost – Skeletà
    3. Bruce Dickinson – More Balls to Picasso
    4. Helloween – Giants and Monsters
    5. Sakis Tolis – Everything Comes to an End
    6. Michael Schenker Group – Don’t Sell your Soul
    7. Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty
    8. Alestorm – The Thunderfist Chronicles
    9. Castle Rat – The Bestiary
    10. Avatarium – Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead
   

Regix Coeymans

    1. Burning Witches – Inquisition
    2. Wolvennest – Procession
    3. Gruesome – Silent Echoes
    4. Agnostic Front – Echoes in Eternity
    5. Biohazard – Divided We Fall
    6. Xiao – Control
    7. Dying Wish – Flesh Stays Together
    8. Castle Rat – The Bestiary
    9. Enthroned – Ashspawn
    10. Nordicwinter – Solitude
   

Oli de Wacken

    1. Avatarium – Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead
    2. The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us the Moon
    3. Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction
    4. Wytch Hazel – V: Lamentations
    5. Alice Cooper – The Revenge of Alice Cooper
    6. Baest – Colossal
    7. Helloween – Giants & Monsters
    8. Vicious Rumors – The Devil’s Asylum
    9. Dirkschneider and the Old Gang (DATOG) – Babylon
    10. Michael Schenker Group – Don’t Sell Your Soul

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