Best Metal Albums of 1997


01
Michiru Yamane
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night OST

4.55
20 votes
02
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
F♯ A♯ ∞

4.49
3950 votes
03
Gods Tower
The Turns

4.42
18 votes
04
Devin Townsend
Ocean Machine: Biomech

4.4
1436 votes
05
Strapping Young Lad
City

4.38
3358 votes
06
Misfits
Static Age

4.36
1032 votes
07
Emperor
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

4.34
3144 votes
08
Antestor
Kongsblod (Demo)

4.3
15 votes
09
Esoteric
The Pernicious Enigma

4.29
360 votes
10
In the Woods...
Omnio

4.25
448 votes
11
Gamma Ray
Somewhere Out in Space

4.25
758 votes
12
Symphony X
The Divine Wings of Tragedy

4.22
2511 votes
13
Crown of Autumn
The Treasures Arcane

4.21
14 votes
14
Deformity
Misanthrope

4.21
14 votes
15
Alchemist
Spiritech

4.2
49 votes
16
Electric Wizard
Come My Fanatics...

4.2
839 votes
17
Discipline (USA)
Unfolded Like Staircase

4.2
38 votes
18
His Hero Is Gone
Monuments To Thieves

4.19
257 votes
19
Fates Warning
A Pleasant Shade of Gray

4.18
921 votes
20
Lord Belial
Enter the Moonlight Gate

4.17
238 votes
21
Limbonic Art
In Abhorrence Dementia

4.17
158 votes
22
Gods Tower
The Eerie

4.17
18 votes
23
Slo Burn
Amusing The Amazing

4.16
88 votes
24
Sadistic Intent
Ancient Black Earth EP

4.15
40 votes
25
Mortuary Drape
Secret Sudaria

4.14
171 votes
26
Psycho Symphony
Silent Fall

4.14
14 votes
27
His Hero Is Gone
Fifteen Counts Of Arson

4.13
155 votes
28
Mithotyn
In the Sign of the Ravens

4.13
84 votes
29
Misanthrope
Visionnaire

4.13
16 votes
30
Stratovarius
Visions

4.12
1227 votes
31
Idiot Flesh
Fancy

4.12
33 votes
32
Assuck
Misery Index

4.12
291 votes
33
Decrepit (USA-OH)
Acrimonium

4.12
13 votes
34
Mortal Decay
Sickening Erotic Fanaticism

4.11
34 votes
35
In Flames
Whoracle

4.11
4804 votes
36
Spastic Ink
Ink Complete

4.11
156 votes
37
Bruce Dickinson
Accident Of Birth

4.1
690 votes
38
Gamma Ray
Valley of the Kings

4.1
20 votes
39
October Tide
Rain Without End

4.1
314 votes
40
Empyrium
Songs of Moors and Misty Fields

4.09
239 votes
41
Human Waste Project
E-lux

4.09
32 votes
42
Hypocrisy
The Final Chapter

4.09
684 votes
43
Tiamat
A Deeper Kind of Slumber

4.08
512 votes
44
Hades Almighty
The Dawn of the Dying Sun

4.08
98 votes
45
Deftones
Around the Fur

4.08
4153 votes
46
Kobong
Chmury Nie Bylo

4.07
19 votes
47
Evereve
Seasons

4.07
25 votes
48
The 3rd and the Mortal
In This Room

4.07
42 votes
49
Lacrimosa
Stille

4.07
36 votes
50
Anubi
Kai pilnaties akis uzmerks Mirtis

4.07
22 votes
51
Misery Loves Co.
Not Like Them

4.07
23 votes
52
Royal Hunt
Paradox

4.06
100 votes
53
Incubus (USA-CA)
S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

4.06
2076 votes
54
Solefald
The Linear Scaffold

4.06
286 votes
55
Necrophobic
Darkside

4.06
651 votes
56
Corrupted/Noothgrush
Split

4.06
18 votes
57
The Shadow Ring
Hold onto I.D.

4.05
20 votes
58
Deceased
Fearless Undead Machines

4.05
166 votes
59
Living Sacrifice
Reborn

4.04
375 votes
60
Destroyer 666
Unchain The Wolves

4.04
672 votes
61
Pretty Maids
Spooked

4.04
24 votes
62
Nagelfar
Hünengrab im Herbst

4.04
172 votes
63
Dimmu Borgir
Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

4.04
988 votes
64
Grip Inc.
Nemesis

4.03
86 votes
65
Pig Destroyer
Pig Destroyer

4.03
29 votes
66
Corrupted
Paso Inferior

4.03
375 votes
67
Shub Niggurath
The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth)

4.02
66 votes
68
Centinex
Reflections

4.02
62 votes
69
Nokturnal Mortum
Goat Horns

4.01
219 votes
70
Rotting Christ
A Dead Poem

4.01
251 votes
71
Tyrant (JPN)
Under The Dark Mystic Sky

4.01
13 votes
72
Haggard
And Thou Shalt Trust the Seer

4.01
144 votes
73
Kiss It Goodbye
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

4.01
165 votes
74
Obtained Enslavement
Witchcraft

4
124 votes
75
Profanum
Profanum Aeternum Eminence Of Satanic Imperial Art

4
25 votes
76
Excess of Cruelty
Under the Ivy of Ithamar

4
20 votes
77
Einherjer
Far Far North

4
18 votes
78
Thorns of the Carrion
The Scarlet Tapestry

4
16 votes
79
Morgul
Lost In Shadows Grey

4
16 votes
80
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
Sol Niger Within

4
171 votes
81
Breach
It's Me God

4
282 votes
82
Sacrilege GBG
The Fifth Season

3.99
198 votes
83
Kampfar
Mellom Skogkledde Aaser

3.99
84 votes
84
Ulver
Nattens Madrigal

3.98
1137 votes
85
Defleshed
Under the Blade

3.98
42 votes
86
Lake of Tears
A Crimson Cosmos

3.97
60 votes
87
Arcturus
La Masquerade Infernale

3.97
950 votes
88
Nasum
World In Turmoil

3.96
27 votes
89
Labradford
Mi Media Naranja

3.96
106 votes
90
Orange Goblin
Frequencies From Planet Ten

3.96
118 votes
91
Dornenreich
Nicht um zu sterben

3.96
26 votes
92
Rage
End of All Days

3.96
122 votes
93
Martyr
Hopeless Hopes

3.96
184 votes
94
Windir
Soknardalr

3.95
279 votes
95
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope

3.94
102 votes
96
Jag Panzer
The Fourth Judgement

3.94
84 votes
97
Gorgoroth
Under the Sign of Hell

3.94
401 votes
98
Summoning
Nightshade Forests

3.94
128 votes
99
Hash Jar Tempo
Well Oiled

3.94
32 votes
100
Sons Of Abraham
Termites In His Smile

3.94
16 votes
101
Snapcase
Progression Through Unlearning

3.94
250 votes
102
Intestine Baalism
An Anatomy of the Beast

3.93
330 votes
103
Abigail
Intercourse and Lust

3.93
87 votes
104
Sorhin
I det glimrande mörkrets djup

3.93
26 votes
105
Shai Hulud
Hearts Once Nourished With Hope...

3.93
342 votes
106
Wolfbrigade
Lycanthro Punk

3.93
14 votes
107
Molotov
¿Dónde Jugarán las Niñas?

3.92
51 votes
108
Mezarkabul
Anatolia

3.92
18 votes
109
Megaherz
Wer Bist Du

3.91
23 votes
110
Ragnarok
Arising Realm

3.91
48 votes
111
Satanic Surfers
666 Motor Inn

3.9
21 votes
112
Katatonia
Sounds Of Decay

3.9
228 votes
113
Strongarm
The Advent of a Miracle

3.9
46 votes
114
Aeternus
Beyond the Wandering Moon

3.9
96 votes
115
Catharsis (USA-NC)
Samsara

3.9
43 votes
116
Necromantia
Ancient Pride

3.89
27 votes
117
Molested
Stormvold

3.89
18 votes
118
Tad Morose
A Mended Rhyme

3.89
48 votes
119
Forest
Like a Blaze Above the Ashes

3.89
78 votes
120
Borknagar
The Olden Domain

3.89
536 votes
121
Graveland
Following the Voice of Blood

3.89
67 votes
122
Sigh
Hail Horror Hail

3.88
166 votes
123
Impaled Northern Moonforest
Impaled Northern Moonforest

3.88
92 votes
124
Channel Zero
Black Fuel

3.87
36 votes
125
Illdisposed
There's Something Rotten In The State Of Denmark

3.87
38 votes
126
The Moaning
Blood From Stone

3.87
159 votes
127
Pain of Salvation
Entropia

3.87
339 votes
128
Gontyna Kry
Welowie

3.87
15 votes
129
Mayhem
Wolf's Lair Abyss

3.87
562 votes
130
Stars of the Lid
The Ballasted Orchestra

3.86
147 votes
131
Iron Monkey
McDonald's Corporation, doing business a

3.86
154 votes
132
Strife
In This Defiance

3.86
74 votes
133
Faxed Head
Exhumed At Birth

3.86
14 votes
134
Lacrimas Profundere
La Naissance D'Un Rêve

3.85
20 votes
135
One King Down
Bloodlust Revenge

3.84
29 votes
136
In Flames
Black-Ash Inheritance

3.84
488 votes
137
Will Haven
El Diablo

3.84
140 votes
138
Acrimony
Tumuli Shroomaroom

3.84
92 votes
139
Shai Hulud
A Profound Hatred Of Man

3.84
131 votes
140
Stavesacre
Absolutes

3.83
18 votes
141
Acid King
Down With The Crown

3.83
15 votes
142
Sentenced
Down

3.83
252 votes
143
Eucharist
Mirrorworlds

3.83
282 votes
144
The Crown
Eternal Death

3.83
147 votes
145
Ebony Tears
Tortura Insomniae

3.83
60 votes
146
Rammstein
Sehnsucht

3.82
1332 votes
147
Noctes
Pandemonic Requiem

3.82
25 votes
148
Skepticism
Ethere

3.82
25 votes
149
Day Of Suffering
The Eternal Jihad

3.82
38 votes
150
Septicflesh
The Ophidian Wheel

3.81
150 votes
151
KMFDM
Symbols

3.81
165 votes
152
Sacramentary Abolishment
The Distracting Stone

3.81
24 votes
153
Hecate Enthroned
The Slaughter of Innocence, A Requiem for the Migh

3.81
108 votes
154
Disembodied
Diablerie

3.81
94 votes
155
Morser
Two Hours To Doom

3.8
23 votes
156
Broken Hope
Loathing

3.8
35 votes
157
Pessimist
Cult of the Initiated

3.8
20 votes
158
Acid Mothers Temple
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.

3.8
15 votes
159
Grand Belial's Key
Mocking the Philanthropist

3.8
188 votes
160
On Thorns I Lay
Orama

3.8
44 votes
161
Sadistik Exekution
K.A.O.S.

3.79
34 votes
162
Saxon
Unleash The Beast

3.79
116 votes
163
Flying Saucer Attack
New Lands

3.79
29 votes
164
Children of Bodom
Something Wild

3.79
4110 votes
165
Vital Remains
Forever Underground

3.79
268 votes
166
Cauldron Born
Born of the Cauldron

3.79
22 votes
167
Snot
Get Some

3.79
259 votes
168
Cemetary
Last Confessions

3.79
42 votes
169
Diabolical Masquerade
The Phantom Lodge

3.78
106 votes
170
Orchid/Pig Destroyer
Split

3.78
23 votes
171
Veni Domine
Spiritual Wasteland

3.78
18 votes
172
Coalesce
Give Them Rope

3.78
210 votes
173
Karp
Self Titled LP

3.77
42 votes
174
Iron Savior
Iron Savior

3.77
92 votes
175
Sieges Even
Uneven

3.76
34 votes
176
Viral Load
Brutalized Beyond Belief

3.76
19 votes
177
Enslaved
Eld

3.76
750 votes
178
Hatebreed
Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire

3.75
426 votes
179
Keep of Kalessin
Through Times Of War

3.75
100 votes
180
Fleshcrawl
Bloodred Massacre

3.75
44 votes
181
Tristania
Tristania

3.75
40 votes
182
Elegy (NLD)
State of Mind

3.75
24 votes
183
Dystopia
Backstabber

3.75
22 votes
184
JLIAT
The Nature of Nature

3.75
14 votes
185
Mork Gryning
Return Fire

3.75
14 votes
186
Dark Tranquillity
The Mind's I

3.74
1290 votes
187
Overcast
Fight Ambition To Kill

3.74
66 votes
188
Within Temptation
Enter

3.74
237 votes
189
Flapjack
Juicy Planet Earth

3.74
34 votes
190
Branikald
Kvelduv

3.74
17 votes
191
Rhapsody of Fire
Legendary Tales

3.74
448 votes
192
Internal Bleeding
The Extinction of Benevolence

3.73
26 votes
193
Saviour Machine
Legend Part I

3.73
26 votes
194
Threshold
Extinct Instinct

3.73
88 votes
195
HIM
Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666

3.72
352 votes
196
Ophthalamia
Via Dolorosa

3.72
18 votes
197
Gates of Ishtar
The Dawn of Flames

3.72
150 votes
198
HammerFall
Glory To The Brave

3.72
582 votes
199
Cianide
Death, Doom and Destruction

3.72
32 votes
200
Death SS
Do What You Wilt

3.72
32 votes



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