The Best Metal Albums of 1997

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
51	Artrosis Ukryty wymiar	1997	89	8	3
52	October Tide Rain Without End	1997	91	5	1
53	Blackstar Barbed Wire Soul	1997	91	5	0
54	Machine Head The More Things Change...	Mar 25, 1997	86.2	15	1
55	Artension Phoenix Rising	1997	87.9	10	3
56	Pain Of Salvation Entropia	1997	87	12	2
57	Keep of Kalessin Through Times of War	1997	93	3	0
58	Deicide Serpents of the Light	Oct 21, 1997	83.9	24	0
59	Moonblood Blut und Krieg	1997	91.3	4	0
60	Vanden Plas The God Thing	Oct 15, 1997	88.1	8	0
61	Burzum Dauði Baldrs	Oct 14, 1997	81.8	34	0
62	Threshold Extinct Instinct	Mar 3, 1997	88.6	7	0
63	John Sykes Loveland	Oct 22, 1997	90	5	0
64	Vader Black to the Blind	Oct 13, 1997	87.4	9	1
65	Ulver Nattens madrigal: Aatte hymne til ulven i manden	Mar 3, 1997	85.1	15	2
66	Obituary Back From the Dead	Mar 22, 1997	86.4	11	0
67	Andi Deris Come in From the Rain	1997	89.8	5	0
68	Sodom 'Til Death Do Us Unite	Feb 24, 1997	86	12	0
69	Nightwish Angels Fall First	Nov 1, 1997	80.5	41	4
70	AC/DC Let There Be Rock: the Movie [Live]	Nov 18, 1997	91.7	3	0
71	Whitesnake Starkers in Tokyo [Live]	Jul 5, 1997	87.3	8	2
72	Domine Champion Eternal	1997	86.3	10	3
73	Ebony Tears Tortura Insomniae	1997	86.1	10	1
74	Vital Remains Forever Underground	Mar 25, 1997	90	4	1
75	Shub Niggurath The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth)	1997	89	5	1
76	부활 (Boohwal) 불의 발견	Jun 1997	82.9	20	3
77	In The Woods Omnio	Oct 14, 1997	87.1	7	0
78	Summoning Nightshade Forest [EP]	Jun 16, 1997	87.1	7	0
79	X Japan Live Live Live (Tokyo Dome 1993-1996) [Live]	Oct 15, 1997	88.4	5	0
80	Lux Occulta Dionysos	Nov 1997	89.3	4	1
81	Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray	Apr 22, 1997	87.3	6	0
82	Tiamat A Deeper Kind of Slumber	Apr 22, 1997	88	5	0
83	Harem Scarem Karma Cleansing	Jul 18, 1997	90	3	0
84	Saturnus Paradise Belongs to You	Jan 16, 1997	90	3	0
85	김경호 (Kim Kyungho) Kim Kyung Ho Live [Live]	Nov 1997	84.3	11	2
86	HIM Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666	Nov 20, 1997	85.6	8	0
87	Impellitteri Eye of the Hurricane	1997	80	29	4
88	Axel Rudi Pell Magic	May 21, 1997	86.1	7	0
89	Nagelfar Hünengrab im Herbst	1997	85.5	8	0
90	Hades The Dawn of the Dying Sun	1997	86.7	6	1
91	Necrophobic Darkside	1997	84.4	10	0
92	Lake Of Tears A Crimson Cosmos	1997	86	6	1
93	Autumn Verses Tunes of Disconsolation	1997	86.6	5	1
94	Pretty Maids Spooked	Feb 19, 1997	87.5	4	0
95	Profanum Profanum Aeternum - Eminence of Satanic Imperial Art	1997	87.5	4	1
96	Grip Inc. Nemesis	Feb 25, 1997	87.5	4	1
97	Grand Belial's Key Mocking the Philanthropist	1997	87.5	4	1
98	Animetal Animetal Marathon I	Mar 23, 1997	87.5	4	1
99	Within Temptation Enter	Apr 7, 1997	84.9	7	2
100	Eldritch Headquake	1997	87.3	4	0

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