The Best Metal Albums of 1997

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
101	Bloodthorn In the Shadow of Your Black Wings	1997	88.3	3	0
102	Necrophobic Darkside	1997	83.8	8	0
103	Scanner Ball of the Damned	Jan 25, 1997	85.8	5	0
104	Hecate Enthroned The Slaughter of Innocence, a Requiem for the Mighty	Oct 21, 1997	84.3	7	1
105	Nagelfar Hünengrab im Herbst	1997	84.1	7	0
106	Hypocrisy The Final Chapter	Nov 11, 1997	87.7	3	0
107	Paradise Lost One Second	Jul 14, 1997	82.9	9	1
108	Six feet under Warpath	Sep 7, 1997	86.3	4	0
109	Darkseed Spellcraft	Mar 1997	86.3	4	0
110	Disgorge Chronic Corpora Infest	Mar 1997	83	8	2
111	Conception Flow	Apr 1, 1997	83.7	6	0
112	Nocturnal Rites Tales of Mystery and Imagination	Dec 18, 1997	86.7	3	0
113	Deceased Fearless Undead Machines	Jun 8, 1997	86.7	3	1
114	Armageddon Crossing the Rubicon	May 1997	85	4	1
115	Hexenhaus Dejavoodoo	1997	85	4	0
116	Ragnarok Arising Realm	1997	84	5	1
117	Sevendust Sevendust	Apr 15, 1997	84	5	0
118	Limbonic Art In Abhorrence Dementia	1997	81.9	7	1
119	Various Artists Am I Metallica	May 10, 1997	82.5	6	0
120	Ten The Robe	1997	85.3	3	1
121	Thy Serpent Lords of Twilight	May 19, 1997	83	5	0
122	Thy Primordial Where Only the Seasons Mark the Paths of Time	1997	83.8	4	0
123	Edguy Kingdom of Madness	Feb 8, 1997	77.5	17	3
124	Borknagar The Olden Domain	Aug 18, 1997	85	3	0
125	Malevolent Creation In Cold Blood	1997	85	3	0
126	On Thorns I Lay Orama	Nov 18, 1997	85	3	0
127	Judas Iscariot Of Great Eternity	1997	85	3	0
128	Deinonychus Ark of Thought	1997	85	3	1
129	Concerto Moon Fragment of the Moon	Jul 29, 1997	85	3	0
130	Whiplash Sit Stand Kneel Prey	Dec 8, 1997	85	3	0
131	Night in Gales Towards the Twilight	1997	85	3	0
132	Kamelot Dominion	Apr 15, 1997	81.3	7	0
133	Old Man's Child The Pagan Prosperity	Aug 18, 1997	84.7	3	0
134	Dimension Zero Penetrations from the Lost World [EP]	1997	84.7	3	0
135	Tower The Swan Princess	1997	84.7	3	0
136	Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Soft and Stronger	1997	81	7	0
137	Bishop of Hexen Archives of an Enchanted Philosophy	Apr 1997	79.3	10	1
138	Slaughter Revolution	May 20, 1997	82.2	5	1
139	Dreams Of Sanity Komodia	1997	84.3	3	1
140	Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma	1997	80.4	7	0
141	Kreator Outcast	Jul 22, 1997	77.5	13	1
142	Pink Cream 69 Food for Thought	Jul 24, 1997	82.5	4	0
143	Rotting Christ A Dead Poem	Jul 28, 1997	82.5	4	0
144	Exodus Another Lesson in Violence [Live]	Jul 8, 1997	83.3	3	0
145	Voivod Phobos	Aug 12, 1997	83.3	3	0
146	Destroyer 666 Unchain the Wolves	1997	83.3	3	0
147	Besatt In Nomine Satanas	Jun 1997	83.3	3	1
148	Megadeth Live Trax [EP]	Nov 9, 1997	83.3	3	0
149	Lord Belial Enter the Moonlight Gate	1997	80	6	1
150	Cauldron Born Born of the Cauldron	1997	80	6	0

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