1997

Nighttime Birds

The Gathering

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 17 February 1997

• Gothic metal
• Doom metal

1. On the Most Surfaces (Inuit)
2. Confusion
3. The May Song
4. The Earth Is My Witness
5. New Moon, Different Day
6. Third Chance
7. Kevin's Telescope
8. Nighttime Birds
9. Shrink

In the Sign of the Raven

Mithotyn

• Label: n/a
• Released: 1997

• Viking metal
• Folk metal

1. Upon Raging Waves
2. In the Sign of the Raven
3. Shadows of the Past
4. Lost in the Mist
5. Embraced by Frost
6. In the Forest of Moonlight
7. Tills Dagen Gryr
8. Stories Carved in Stone
9. Freezing Storms of Snow
10. Where My Spirit Forever Shall Be
11. Let Thy Ale Swing

Come My Fanatics ...

Electric Wizard

• Label: Rise Above
• Released: January 1997

• Doom metal
• Stoner metal

1. Return Trip
2. Wizard in Black
3. Doom-Mantia
4. Ivixor B / Phase Inducer
5. Son of Nothing
6. Solarian 13

Falling into Infinity

Dream Theater

• Label: EastWest
• Released: 23 September 1997

• Progressive metal

1. New Millenium
2. You not Me
3. Peruvian Skies
4. Hollow Years
5. Burning My Soul
6. Hell's Kitchen
7. Lines in the Sand
8. Take Away My Pain
9. Just Let Me Breathe
10. Anna Lee
11. Trial of Tears

Hear in the Now Frontier

Queensrÿche

• Label: EMI
• Released: 25 March 1997

• Progressive metal
• Alternative rock

1. Sign of the Times
2. Cuckoo's Nest
3. Get a Life
4. The Voice Inside
5. Some People Fly
6. Saved
7. You
8. Hero
9. Miles Away
10. Reach
11. All I Wat
12. Hit the Black
13. Anytime / Anywhere
14. sp00l

Ultra

Depeche Mode

• Label: Mute
• Released: 14 April 1997

• Alternative rock
• Trip hop

1. Barrel of a Gun
2. The Love Thieves
3. Home
4. It's No Good
5. Uselink
6. Useless
7. Sister of Night
8. Jazz Thieves
9. Freestate
10. The Bottom Line
11. Insight

Homogenic

Björk

• Label: One Little Indian
• Released: 20 September 1997

• Trip hop
• Art pop

1. Hunter
2. Jóga
3. Unravel
4. Bachelorette
5. All Neon Like
6. 5 Years
7. Immature
8. Alarm Call
9. Pluto
10. All Is Full of Love

Be Here Now

Oasis

• Label: Creation
• Released: 21 August 1997

• Alternative rock

1. D'You Know What I Mean?
2. My big MOuth
3. Magic Pie
4. Stand by Me
5. I Hope, I Think, I Know
6. The Girl in the Dirty Shirt
7. Fade in-out
8. Don't Go Away
9. Be Here Now
10. All Around the World
11. It's Gettin' Better (Man!)
12. All Around the World (Reprise)

The Divine Wings of Tragedy

Symphony X

• Label: Zero Corporation
• Released: November 1997

• Neoclassical metal
• Progressive metal
• Power metal

1. Of Sins and Shadows
2. Sea of Lies
3. Out of the Ashes
4. The Accolade
5. Pharaoh
6. The Witching Hour
7. The Divine Wings of Tragedy
8. Candlelight Fantasia

Shadow of the Moon

Blackmore's Night

• Label: Edel
• Released: 2 June 1997

• Folk
• Neo-medieval

1. Shadow of the Moon
2. The Clock Ticks on
3. Be Mine Tonight
4. Play Minstrel Play
5. Ocean Gypsy
6. Minstrel Hall
7. Writing on the Wall
8. Renaissance Faire
9. Memmingen
10. No Second Chance
11. Mond Tanz
12. Spirit of the Sea
13. Greensleeves
14. Wish You Were Here

City

Strapping Young Lad

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 11 February 1997

• Industrial metal
• Progressive metal

1. Velvet Kevorkian
2. All Hail the New Flesh
3. Oh My Fucking God
4. Detox
5. Home Nucleonics
6. AAA
7. Underneath the Waves
8. Room 429
9. Spirituality

Whoracle

In Flames

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 18 November 1997

• Melodic death metal

1. Jotun
2. Food for the Gods
3. Gyroscope
4. Dialogue with the Stars
5. The Huve
6. Jester Script Transfigured
7. Morphing into Primal
8. Worlds Within the Margin
9. Episode 666
10. Everything Counts
11. Whoracle

Demonic

Testament

• Label: Burnt Offerings
• Released: 24 June 1997

• Groove metal
• Death metal

1. Demonic Refusal
2. The Burning Times
3. Together as One
4. Jun-Jun
5. John Doe
6. Murky Waters
7. Hatred's Rise
8. Distorted Lives
9. New Eyes of Old
10. Ten Thousand Thrones
11. Nostrovia

Ixnay on the Hombre

The Offspring

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 4 February 1997

• Punk rock
• Hard rock

1. Disclaimer
2. The Meaning of Life
3. Mota
4. Me & My old Lady
5. Cool to Hate
6. Leave It Behind
7. Gone Away
8. I Choose
9. Intermission
10. All I Want
11. Way Down the Line
12. Don't Pick It up
13. Amazed
14. Change the World

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 3 March 1997

• Jazz pop
• Alternative pop

1. Into My Arms
2. Lime Tree Arbour
3. People Ain't No Good
4. Brompton Oratory
5. There Is a Kingdom
6. (Are You) the One That I've Been Waiting for?
7. Where Do We Go Now but Nowhere?
8. West Country Girl
9. Black Hair
10. Idiot Prayer
11. Far from Me
12. Green Eyes

Nattens Madrigal

Ulver

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 3 March 1997

• Black metal

1. Hymne I: Wolf and Fear
2. Hymne II: Wolf and the Devil
3. Hymne III: Wolf and Hatred
4. Hymne IV: Wolf and Man
5. Hymne V: Wolf and the Moon
6. Hymne VI: Wolf and Passion
7. Hymne VII: Wolf and Destiny
8. Hymne VIII: Wolf and the Night

Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

Emperor

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 19 May 1997

• Symohonic black metal

1. Alsvartr
2. Ye Entrancemperium
3. Thus Spake the Nightspirit
4. Ensorcelled by Khaos
5. The Loss and Curse of Reverence
6. The Acclamation of Bonds
7. With Strength I Burn
8. The Wanderer

Nimrod

Green Day

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 14 October 1997

• Punk rock

1. Nice Guys Finish Last
2. Hitchin' a Ride
3. The Grouch
4. Redundant
5. Scattered
6. All the Time
7. Worry Rock
8. Platypus (I Hate You)
9. Uptight
10. Last Ride in
11. Jinx
12. Haushinka
13. Walking Alone
14. Reject
15. Take Back
16. King for a Day
17. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
18. Prosthetic Hand

Something Wild

Children of Bodom

• Label: Spinefarm
• Released: 16 November 1997

• Melodic death metal
• Symphonic metal

1. Deadnight Warrior
2. In the Shadows
3. Red Light in My Eyes, Pt. 1
4. Red Light in My Eyes, Pt. 2
5. Lake Bodom
6. The Nail
7. Touch Like Angel of Death

Bang Bang

Dispatch

• Label: Universal
• Released: 1 September 1997

• Jam rock

1. Here We Go
2. Bats in the Belfry
3. The General
4. Bang Bang
5. Mission
6. Drive
7. Two Coins
8. Railway
9. Whirlwind
10. Out Loud

Sehnsucht

Rammstein

• Label: Motor
• Released: 22 August 1997

• industrial metal

1. Sehnsucht
2. Engel
3. Tier
4. Bestrafe mich
5. Du hast
6. Bück dich
7. Spiel mit mir
8. Klavier
9. Alter Mann
10. Eifersucht
11. Küss mich

Album of the Year

Faith No More

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 3 June 1997

• Alternative metal

1. Collision
2. Stripsearch
3. Last Cup of Sorrow
4. Naked in Front of the Computer
5. Helpless
6. Mouth to Mouth
7. Ashes to Ashes
8. She Loves Me Not
9. Got That Feeling
10. Paths of Glory
11. Home Sick Home
12. Pristina

Anatolia

The Pentagram

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 1997

• Heavy metal

1. Anatolia (Version 1)
2. Eastland
3. Dark Is the Sun
4. Gündüz Gece
5. Stand to Fall
6. Give Me Something to Kill the Pain
7. Welcome the End
8. Anatolia (Version 2)
9. On the Run
10. Time
11. Behind the Veil
12. Fall of a Hero
13. Infinity

The Book of Secrets

Loreena McKennitt

• Label: Quinlan Road
• Released: 30 September 1997

• Celtic folk

1. Prologue
2. The Mummers' Dance
3. Skellig
4. Marco polo
5. The Highwayman
6. La Serenissima
7. Night Ride Across the Caucasus
8. Dante's Prayer

Secret Samadhi

Live

• Label: Radioactive
• Released: 18 February 1997

• Alternative rock

1. Rattlesnake
2. Lakini's Juice
3. Graze
4. Century
5. Ghost
6. Unsheathed
7. Insomnia and the Hole in the Universe
8. Turn My Head
9. Heropsychodreamer
10. Freaks
11. Merica
12. Gas Hed Goes West

OK Computer

Radiohead

• Label: Parlophone
• Released: 21 May 1997

• Progressive rock
• Art rock

1. Airbag
2. Paranoid Android
3. Subterranean Homesick Blues
4. Exit Music (for a Film)
5. Let Down
6. Karma Police
7. Fitter Happier
8. Electioneering
9. Climbing up the Walls
10. No Surprises
11. Lucky
12. The Tourist

Cryptic Writings

Megadeth

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 17 June 1997

• Heavy metal

1. Trust
2. Almost Honest
3. Use the Man
4. Mastermind
5. The Disintegrators
6. I'll Get Even
7. Sin
8. A Secret Place
9. Have Cool, Will Travel
10. She-Wolf
11. Vortex
12. FFF

One Second

Paradise Lost

• Label: Music for Nations
• Released: 14 July 1997

• Gothic rock

1. One Second
2. Say Just Words
3. Lydia
4. Mercy
5. Soul Courageous
6. Another Day
7. The Sufferer
8. This Cold Life
9. Blood of Another
10. Disappear
11. Sane
12. Take Me Down

Visions

Stratovarius

• Label: Noise
• Released: 28 April 1997

• Power metal

1. The Kiss of Judas
2. Black Diamond
3. Forever Free
4. Before the Winter
5. Legions
6. The Abyss of Your Eyes
7. Holy Light
8. Paradise
9. Coming Home
10. Visions (Southern Cross)

The Fat of the Land

The Prodigy

• Label: XL
• Released: 30 June 1997

• Elecropunk
• techno

1. Smack My Bitch up
2. Breathe
3. Diesel Power
4. Funky Shit
5. Serial Thrilla
6. Mindfields
7. Narayan
8. Firestarter
9. Climbatize
10. Fuel My Fire