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Top 20 albums of 1997
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    Top 20 albums of 1997

    1 Emperor
    Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk ()
    8.89
    1060
    2 Empyrium
    Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields ()
    8.8
    477
    3 Symphony X
    The Divine Wings Of Tragedy ()
    8.8
    858
    4 Stratovarius
    Visions ()
    8.74
    821
    5 Dimmu Borgir
    Enthrone Darkness Triumphant ()
    8.7
    1157
    6 The Gathering
    Nighttime Birds ()
    8.63
    432
    7 Devin Townsend
    Ocean Machine: Biomech ()
    8.63
    469
    8 October Tide
    Rain Without End ()
    8.6
    223
    9 Saturnus
    Paradise Belongs To You ()
    8.6
    321
    10 Bruce Dickinson
    Accident Of Birth ()
    8.59
    439
    11 In Flames
    Whoracle ()
    8.59
    1218
    12 Gamma Ray
    Somewhere Out In Space ()
    8.59
    534
    13 Strapping Young Lad
    City ()
    8.57
    487
    14 In The Woods...
    Omnio ()
    8.55
    209
    15 Lacrimosa
    Stille ()
    8.55
    191
    16 Lord Belial
    Enter The Moonlight Gate ()
    8.5
    125
    17 Hades
    The Dawn Of The Dying Sun ()
    8.49
    51
    18 Limbonic Art
    In Abhorrence Dementia ()
    8.48
    199
    19 Summoning
    Dol Guldur ()
    8.47
    363
    20 Fates Warning
    A Pleasant Shade Of Gray ()
    8.47
    221