You know you're getting old when 20 years ago feels like just yesterday, but that's how I felt compiling this gallery of album covers from seminal heavy metal albums that came out in 1997. The albums are listed in alphabetical order. Each one is accompanied by the link to purchase the album on Amazon.com.
Coal Chamber – Coal Chamber
Deftones – Around The Fur
Deicide – Serpents of the Light
Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Electric Wizard – Come My Fanatics…
Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Faith No More – Album of the Year
Godflesh – Love and Hate in Dub
HammerFall – Glory to the Brave
In Flames – Whoracle
Kreator – Outcast
Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all
Megadeth – Cryptic Writings
Metallica – Reload
Motley Crue – Generation Swine
Rammstein – Sehnsucht
Rotting Christ – A Dead Poem
Sevendust – Sevendust
Snot – Get Some
Strapping Young Lad – City
Symphony X – The Divine Wings of Tragedy
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