The year 1997:

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Zenial's year list:
1)Darkside - Shadowfields
2)Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
3)Sear Bliss - The Pagan Winter / In the Shadow of Another World
4)Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter of Innocence, A Requiem for the Mighty
5)Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
6)Aeternus - Beyond the Wandering Moon
7)Septic Flesh - Ophidian Wheel
8)On Thorns I Lay - Orama
9)Malignant Eternal - Far Beneath the Sun
10)Dismal Euphony - Autumn Leaves - the Rebellion of Tides
11)...And Oceans - Mare Liberum (demo)
12)Nokturnal Mortum - Goat Horns
13)Falkenbach - ...Magni Blandinn ok Megintiri...
14)Asgaroth - Trapped in the Depths of Eve
15)Alastis - The Other Side
16)Empyrium - Songs of Moors & Misty Fields
17)Emperor - Reverence
18)Sadness - Evangelion
19)Grip Inc. - Nemesis
20)Morgul - Lost in Shadows Grey
21)Siebenbürgen - Loreia
22)Bloodthorn - In the Shadow of Your Black Wings
23)October Tide - Rain Without End
24)Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia
25)Tower - The Swan Princess

User vote year list:
1)Windir - Sóknardalr 9.40 (101 votes)
2)Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia 9.35 (201 votes)
3)Empyrium - Songs of Moors & Misty Fields 9.35 (175 votes)
4)Haggard - And Thou Shalt Trust... the Seer 9.32 (109 votes)
5)Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk 9.28 (433 votes)
6)Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale 9.27 (260 votes)
7)Kampfar - Mellom Skogkledde Aaser 9.26 (58 votes)
8)Falkenbach - ...Magni Blandinn ok Megintiri... 9.25 (178 votes)
9)My Dying Bride - For Darkest Eyes (video) 9.25 (50 votes)
10)In The Woods - Omnio 9.22 (100 votes)
11)Deströyer 666 - Unchain The Wolves 9.22 (40 votes)
12)Saturnus - Paradise Belongs to You 9.18 (59 votes)
13)Mithotyn - In the Sign of the Ravens 9.16 (48 votes)
14)Sirrah - Did Tomorrow Come... 9.16 (20 votes)
15)Carcass - Best of Carcass 9.16 (15 votes)
16)Graveworm - Eternal Winds 9.15 (10 votes)
17)Septic Flesh - Ophidian Wheel 9.14 (40 votes)
18)Summoning - Nightshade Forests 9.13 (100 votes)
19)Strapping Young Lad - City 9.10 (61 votes)
20)Cultus Sanguine - Shadow's Blood 9.10 (32 votes)
21)Elend - Weeping Nights 9.10 (31 votes)
22)Dismal Euphony - Autumn Leaves - the Rebellion of Tides 9.09 (60 votes)
23)Lux Occulta - Dionysos 9.09 (55 votes)
24)Ragnarok (UK) - To Mend the Oaken Heart 9.09 (29 votes)
25)Ulver - Nattens Madrigal 9.07 (196 votes)
(scores calculated using a true Bayesian estimate)

Most user votes:
1)Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant 8.8 (469 votes)
2)Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk 9.3 (433 votes)
3)Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale 9.3 (260 votes)
4)Metallica - Reload 3.6 (211 votes)
5)Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia 9.4 (201 votes)
6)Ulver - Nattens Madrigal 9.1 (196 votes)
7)Immortal - Blizzard Beasts 8.1 (181 votes)
8)Falkenbach - ...Magni Blandinn ok Megintiri... 9.3 (178 votes)
9)Empyrium - Songs of Moors & Misty Fields 9.4 (175 votes)
10)Burzum - Balder's Dod 7.6 (169 votes)

Lowest user votes:
1)Metallica - Reload 3.82 (211 votes)
2)Korn - Knockout 3.89 (22 votes)
3)Korn - Good God 4.26 (40 votes)
4)Korn - Live, Demos & Blind 5.22 (12 votes)
5)Metallica - Fuel 5.30 (10 votes)
6)Fear Factory - Remanufacture (Cloning Technology) 5.37 (46 votes)
7)Korn - KoRnoise 5.46 (11 votes)
8)Metallica - The Unforgiven II 5.85 (17 votes)
9)Metallica - The Memory Remains 6.05 (8 votes)
10)Anorexia Nervosa - Exile 6.16 (35 votes)

Events:
- Acid Bath: Bassist Audie Pitre died in a car crash in January 1997
- Acid Bath: Band split up after Audie's death in 1997
- Blood Stained Dusk: Formed in 1997 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA
- Ceremonial Castings: Formed in 1997 in Battle Ground, WA, USA
- Dargaard: Formed in 1997 in Austria
- Dark Lunacy: Formed in 1997 in Parma, Italy
- Deicide: Glen Benton has said he would commit suicide at age 33. This was in 1997, so obviously he didn't
- Diablerie: Formed in 1997 in Finland
- Emancer: Formed in 1997 in Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
- Finntroll: Formed in 1997 in Helsinki, Finland
- Forest of Shadows: Formed in 1997 in Stockholm, Sweden
- Gardenian: Formed in 1997 in Gothenburg, Sweden
- Heidenreich: Formed in Spring 1997 in Austria
- Immemorial (POL): Formed in June 1997 in Elblag, Poland
- Isvind: Band has broken up in 1997 but got back together in early 2002
- Korn: "Shoots And Ladders" was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance
- Ninnghizhidda: Formed in 1997 in Germany
- Oathean: Was originally called Odin, changed to Oathean in 1997
- Obituary: Band has broken up in 1997 but got back together in 2004
- The Old Dead Tree: Formed in february 18th 1997 in France
- Rapture: Formed in 1997 in Helsinki, Finland
- Tristania: Formed in 1997 in Norway

Visitor count:
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Stats generated at: 04/11/12


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