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Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 1997


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Yep, they made the list...
I’m not sorry lol.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds (Gothic)
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... (Doom/Stoner)
Deicide - Serpents Of The Light (Death)
Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave (Power)
Enslaved - Eld (Black/Viking)
Deftones - Around The Fur (Nu/Alternative)

Non-Metal mentions:
Velvet Acid Christ - Calling Ov The Dead (Industrial)
GBH - Punk Junkies (Punk)
Misfits - American Psycho (Punk)

Created by: blackwreath13 | 06.11.2021



1. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
1997 (Black/Symphonic) The Wanderer, Ensorcelled By Khaos, Ye Entrancemperium
2. Deströyer 666 - Unchain The Wolves
1997 (Black/Thrash) Australian and Anti-Christ, Genesis to Genocide, Tyranny of the Inevitable
3. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
1997 (Avantgarde) The Chaos Path, Painting My Horror, Master of Disguise
4. Stratovarius - Visions
1997 (Power) The Abyss of Your Eyes, Black Diamond, The Kiss of Judas
5. Dominion - Blackout
1997 (Doom) Release, Blackout, Prism
6. Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell
1997 (Black) Ødeleggelse Og Undergang, Blood Stains the Circle, Funeral Procession
7. Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill Y'all
1997 (Nu) Nobody Loves Me, Stuck, Faith
8. Obituary - Back From The Dead
1997 (Death) Platonic Disease Feed On The Weak, Download, Rewind
9. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
1997 (Black/Symphonic) Relinquishment Of Spirit And Flesh, Master Of Disharmony, Mourning Palace
10. Saxon - Unleash The Beast
1997 (Heavy) Bloodletter, All Hell Breaking Loose, Cut Out The Disease
11. Rammstein - Sehnsucht
1997 (Industrial) Du Hast, Spiel Mit Mir, Küss Mich (Fellfrosch)



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06.11.2021 - 22:24
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
And once again we have very different tops, the only album I'd have in common with you would be the Arcturus one.
My own list would have (among other releases) Ulver's Nattens Madrigal, Sigh's Hail Horror Hail, Symphony X's Divine Wings Of Tragedy and Molested's Stormvold.
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07.11.2021 - 00:40
blackwreath13
Written by Roman Doez on 06.11.2021 at 22:24

And once again we have very different tops, the only album I'd have in common with you would be the Arcturus one.
My own list would have (among other releases) Ulver's Nattens Madrigal, Sigh's Hail Horror Hail, Symphony X's Divine Wings Of Tragedy and Molested's Stormvold.

Really? Not even the Emperor or Stratovarius ones? Thought they were pretty much universal.
Ulver has been on my listen to pile for like a decade now lol, eventually I swear I’ll finally get to their BM albums. Thanks for the recommendations.
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07.11.2021 - 00:52
John doe
In the Woods - Omnio is probably my favorite of the year.

I'll make a top 10 tomorrow.
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07.11.2021 - 09:54
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Written by blackwreath13 on 07.11.2021 at 00:40

Really? Not even the Emperor or Stratovarius ones? Thought they were pretty much universal.
Ulver has been on my listen to pile for like a decade now lol, eventually I swear I’ll finally get to their BM albums. Thanks for the recommendations.

I don't really care about Emperor, and I've never listened to Stratovarius since I don't really like power metal all that much
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07.11.2021 - 10:33
John doe
10 favorites from 1997

In the Woods - Omnio
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Psyco Drama - Bent
Vanden Plas - The God Thing
October Tide - Rain Without End
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
Saviour Machine - Legend Part I
Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine - Biomech
Yearning - With Tragedies Adorned
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07.11.2021 - 10:58
blackwreath13
Written by John doe on 07.11.2021 at 10:33

10 favorites from 1997

In the Woods - Omnio
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Psyco Drama - Bent
Vanden Plas - The God Thing
October Tide - Rain Without End
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
Saviour Machine - Legend Part I
Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine - Biomech
Yearning - With Tragedies Adorned

Wow, my plebe ears literally haven’t heard a single one of those.
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07.11.2021 - 21:21
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Enter the Moonlight Gate by Lord Belial
Darkside by Necrophobic
Those are top choices for me.

Anthems to the Welkin At Dusk is kind of growing on me. The only song I know from Stratovarius is "Black Diamond", and I liked it. Maybe I need to check out the rest of that Visions album?

Also, Dimmu Borgir and Destroyer 666 are on my to-do list
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07.11.2021 - 22:23
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Contributor
Another great year for the Norwegian black metal scene with a special appreciation for adding Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk , Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, and Under The Sign Of Hell.
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07.11.2021 - 23:30
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Written by John doe on 07.11.2021 at 10:33

10 favorites from 1997
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine - Biomech

Damn you got Ocean Machine but no Strapping Young Lad, I'd personnaly go the other way round
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08.11.2021 - 07:57
John doe
Written by Roman Doez on 07.11.2021 at 23:30

Written by John doe on 07.11.2021 at 10:33

10 favorites from 1997
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine - Biomech

Damn you got Ocean Machine but no Strapping Young Lad, I'd personnaly go the other way round

Strapping Young Lad is not my thing I'm afraid.
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08.11.2021 - 09:12
blackwreath13
Written by F3ynman on 07.11.2021 at 21:21

Enter the Moonlight Gate by Lord Belial
Darkside by Necrophobic
Those are top choices for me.

Anthems to the Welkin At Dusk is kind of growing on me. The only song I know from Stratovarius is "Black Diamond", and I liked it. Maybe I need to check out the rest of that Visions album?

Also, Dimmu Borgir and Destroyer 666 are on my to-do list

Yes those are two I really need to listen to, they definitely sound like my thing.

Growing on you? What an endorsement...
Visions isn’t my favourite Stratovarius album of the ones I have heard but it does seem to be everyone else’s and I do think it’s really good. Definitely worth a listen.

Deströyer 666 are my city’s pride, Unchain The Wolves and Phoenix Rising are especially awesome, check them out. The latter is a bit more polished.
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08.11.2021 - 09:19
blackwreath13
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 07.11.2021 at 22:23

Another great year for the Norwegian black metal scene with a special appreciation for adding Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk , Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, and Under The Sign Of Hell.

Hell yeah! They’re practically carrying the whole genre at this point lol.
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23.07.2022 - 19:45
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
A bit of a downgrade compared to '96, which doesn't mean that this year isn't full of bangers:

1. Ulver - Nattens madrigal: Aatte hymne til ulven i manden
2. Hex Minora - Under a Pornographic Sun (noise)
3. Shiro Sagisu - The End of Evangelion
4. Old Man's Child - The Pagan Prosperity
5. Molested - Stormvold
6. Destroyer 666 - Unchain the Wolves
7. Ferocity - Puzzled Into Various Spaces
8. Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
9. Mayhem - Wolf's Lair Abyss
10. Mithotyn - In the Sign of the Ravens
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