1997

  • 53
    Kawir
    To Cavirs

  • 52
    Fleshcrawl
    Bloodred Massacre

  • 51
    Immortal
    Blizzard Beasts

  • 50
    His Hero Is Gone
    Monuments to Thieves

  • 49
    Summoning
    Dol Guldur

  • 48
    Devin Townsend
    Ocean Machine: Biomech

  • 47
    Breach
    It's Me God

  • 46
    Ragnarok
    Arising Realm

  • 45
    Helheim
    Av Norrøn ætt

  • 44
    Kampfar
    Mellom Skogkledde Aaser

  • 43
    Bruce Dickinson
    Accident of Birth

  • 42
    Human Waste Project
    E-Lux

  • 41
    Dornenreich
    Nicht Um Zu Sterben

  • 40
    Limbonic Art
    In Abhorrence Dementia

  • 39
    Strapping Young Lad
    City

  • 38
    Sorhin
    I Det Glimrande Morkrets Djup

  • 37
    Voivod
    Phobos

  • 36
    The Moaning
    Blood from Stone

  • 35
    Mithotyn
    In the Sign of the Ravens

  • 34
    Keep of Kalessin
    Through Times of War

  • 33
    Sacrilege
    The Fifth Season

  • 32
    Hypocrisy
    The Final Chapter

  • 31
    Nagelfar
    Hünengrab Im Herbst

  • 30
    Sleater-Kinney
    Dig Me Out

  • 29
    Björk
    Homogenic

  • 28
    Centinex
    Reflections

  • 27
    Alchemist
    Spiritech

  • 26
    Aeternus
    Beyond the Wandering Moon

  • 25
    Avenger
    Shadows of the Damned

  • 24
    Faith No More
    Album of the Year

  • 23
    Wumpscut
    Embryodead

  • 22
    Gorgoroth
    Under the Sign of Hell

  • 21
    Snapcase
    Progression Through Unlearning

  • 20
    Mortuary Drape
    Secret Sudaria

  • 19
    Vital Remains
    Forever Underground

  • 18
    Rammstein
    Sehnsucht

  • 17
    The Prodigy
    The Fat of the Land

  • 16
    Lord Belial
    Enter the Moonlight Gate

  • 15
    Morgion
    Among Majestic Ruin

  • 14
    Borknagar
    The Olden Domain

  • 13
    Deftones
    Around the Fur

  • 12
    Deceased
    Fearless Undead Machines

  • 11
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    F#A#∞

  • 10
    Necrophobic
    Darkside

  • 9
    Intestine Baalism
    An Anatomy of the Beast

  • 8
    Rotting Christ
    A Dead Poem

  • 7
    Windir
    Soknardalr

  • 6
    Shub Niggurath
    The Kinglike Celebration

  • 5
    Sigh
    Hail Horror Hail

  • 4
    Enslaved
    Eld

  • 3
    KMFDM
    Symbols

  • 2
    Ulver
    Nattens Madrigal

  • 1
    Emperor
    Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk