1997 in heavy metal music

none October 2025 1997 1997 heavy metal music This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1997. Newly formed bands 20em 1349 Akercocke Aletheian The Amenta American Head Charge Amoral Armageddon Atargatis Blackstar Blood Has Been Shed Born from Pain Brougham Caliban Carnal Forge Dagoba Dark Lunacy Dark Suns Deadlock Diecast The Dillinger Escape Plan Dir En Grey Dolorian Doomsword Dope Droid Elvenking Explorers Club Factory 81 Finntroll Five Foot Thick Forefather Goatwhore Gorod Halestorm Halfcocked Hardcore Superstar Hate Eternal Insomnium Isis Karma to Burn Karnivool Keelhaul Liquid Tension Experiment Lostprophets Nebula Nonpoint Norma Jean Obscurity Onesidezero Origin Paysage d'Hiver Persuader Pig Destroyer Pleymo Poison the Well Primal Fear Primer 55 Pulse Ultra (As Headspace) Rapture Reveille Secret Sphere Serial Joe Severe Torture Shuvel Sick Puppies Sinergy Skrape (As JoJo) Soil Soulfly Sunk Loto (As Messiah) Spawn of Possession Taproot Three Days Grace Throwdown Thurisaz Tierra Santa Trust Company (As 41 Down) Turisas Underoath U.P.O. Vesania Vintersorg Witchery Reformed bands The original Black Sabbath lineup Jane's Addiction (disbanded again later that year) Ratt Suicidal Tendencies Albums 30em 20 Dead Flower Children – Candy Toy Guns and Television 41 Down – 41 Down (early version of Trust Company under their original name) Acid King – Down with the Crown (EP) Aerosmith – Nine Lives Acumen Nation – More Human Heart Alice Cooper – A Fistful of Alice (live) Anvil – Absolutely No Alternative Anal Cunt – I Like It When You Die Arcturus – La Masquerade Infernale Assück – Misery Index Belphegor – Blutsabbath Blackstar – Barbed Wire Soul Blood of Christ – ...A Dream to Remember Body Count – Violent Demise: The Last Days Borknagar – The Olden Domain Bruce Dickinson – Accident of Birth Brutal Truth – Sounds of the Animal Kingdom Burzum – Dauði Baldrs Children of Bodom – Something Wild (Finland release) Cinderella – Once Upon A... Clawfinger – Clawfinger Coal Chamber – Coal Chamber Conception – Flow Creed – My Own Prison The Crown – Eternal Death D.A.D. – Simpatico Damaged – Token Remedies Research Dark Tranquillity – The Mind's I Deceased – Fearless Undead Machines Deftones – Around the Fur Deicide – Serpents of the Light Devin Townsend – Ocean Machine: Biomech The Dillinger Escape Plan – The Dillinger Escape Plan (EP) Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant Dismember – Death Metal Dog Fashion Disco – Erotic Massage Dokken – Shadowlife Dream Theater – Falling into Infinity Ebony Tears – Tortura Insomniae Edguy – Kingdom of Madness Edge of Sanity – Infernal Edge of Sanity – Cryptic Electric Wizard – Come My Fanatics...http://www.riseaboverecords.com:80/electricwizard/fanatics.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010306174421/http://www.riseaboverecords.com/electricwizard/fanatics.html Electric Wizard – "Come My Fanatics" 6 June 2017 6 March 2001 Rise Above Records dead Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk Enslaved – Eld Entombed – DCLXVI: To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth Europe – Definitive Collection (compilation) Factory 81 – Crawl Space (EP) Faith No More – Album of the Year Far – Soon (EP) Fatal Opera - The Eleventh Hour Fates Warning – A Pleasant Shade of Gray Flapjack – Juicy Planet Earth Freak Kitchen – Junk Tooth (EP) Gamma Ray – Somewhere Out in Space The Gathering – Nighttime Birds Geezer – Black Science Gilby Clarke – The Hangover (Gilby Clarke album) Glassjaw – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (EP) Godflesh – Love and Hate in Dub (remix) Godsmack – All Wound Up... Gorgoroth – Under the Sign of Hell Graveworm – When Daylight's Gone Grip Inc. – Nemesis Grinspoon – Guide to Better Living Grinspoon – Repeat (EP) Guano Apes – Proud Like a God Gwar – Carnival of Chaos HammerFall – Glory to the Brave Handsome – Handsome Hatebreed – Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire Hed PE – (həd)pe Helmet – Aftertaste HIM – Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 Hoobastank – Muffins (EP) Human Waste Project – E-lux Hypocrisy – The Final Chapter Iced Earth – Days of Purgatory (remix) Illdisposed – There's Something Rotten... In the State of Denmark Immortal – Blizzard Beasts In Flames – Whoracle Incantation – The Forsaken Mourning of Angelic Anguish (EP) Incantation – Tribute to the Goat (live) Incubus – Enjoy Incubus (EP) Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Integrity – Seasons in the Size of Days Iron Savior – Iron Savior Jag Panzer – The Fourth Judgement Jane's Addiction – Kettle Whistle (compilation) Jimmie's Chicken Shack – Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope Judas Priest – Jugulator Judas Priest – The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight Kamelot – Dominion Keep of Kalessin – Through Times of War Kiss – Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions Konkhra – Weed Out the Weak Krabathor – Mortal Memories (EP) Kreator – Outcast Lacrimosa – Stille L7 – The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum Lostprophets – Here Cumz Tha Party (EP) Life of Agony – Soul Searching Sun Limp Bizkit – Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$ Yngwie Malmsteen – Facing the Animal Machine Head – The More Things Change... Malevolent Creation – In Cold Blood Marilyn Manson – Remix & Repent (EP) Megadeth – Cryptic Writings Memento Mori - Songs for the Apocalypse, Vol. IV Metallica – ReLoad Molotov – ¿Dónde Jugarán las Niñas? Morgion – Among Majestic Ruin Mötley Crüe – Generation Swine Mudvayne – Kill, I Oughtta (EP) Napalm Death – Inside the Torn Apart Necrophobic – Darkside Nembrionic – Bloodcult (EP) Neuraxis - Imagery Night in Gales – Towards the Twilight Nightwish – Angels Fall First Nothingface – Pacifier No-Big-Silence – 99 No One Is Innocent – Utopia Novembers Doom – For Every Leaf That Falls (EP) Obituary – Back from the Dead Old Man's Child – The Pagan Prosperity On Thorns I Lay – Orama Orange Goblin – Frequencies from Planet Ten Overkill – From the Underground and Below Ozzy Osbourne – The Ozzman Cometh Pain - Pain Pain of Salvation – Entropia Pantera – Official Live: 101 Proof (live) Pariah – Unity Pessimist – Cult of the Initiated Papa Roach – Old Friends from Young Years Pig Destroyer – Demo (EP) Pig Destroyer – Pig Destroyer / Orchid (split EP) Powerman 5000 – Mega!! Kung Fu Radio Primus – Brown Album Queensrÿche – Hear in the Now Frontier Rammstein – Sehnsucht Ratt – Collage Razor – Decibels Resorte - República de Ciegoshttps://www.spirit-of-metal.com/es/album/Republica_de_Ciegos/107546 Full-length album 'República de Ciegos' by nu-metal band RESORTE from México City 1997 April 29, 2026 Rhapsody – Legendary Tales Rollins Band – Come In and Burn Rotting Christ – A Dead Poem Roxx Gang – Love 'Em and Leave 'Em Saliva – Saliva Salmon – Paco... Drop the Chicken Savatage – The Wake of Magellan Saxon – Unleash the Beast Scorpions – Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years Septicflesh – The Ophidian Wheel Sevendust – Sevendust Shadows Fall – Somber Eyes to the Sky Shootyz Groove – Hipnosis Six Feet Under – Warpath Skinlab – Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded Slaughter – Revolution Slaves on Dope – One Good Turn Deserves Another Slo Burn – Amusing the Amazing (EP) Snot – Get Some Sodom – 'Til Death Do Us Unite Solefald – The Linear Scaffold Soundgarden – A-Sides Strapping Young Lad – City Stratovarius – Visions Stratovarius – The Past and Now (compilation) Sugar Ray – Floored Symphony X – The Divine Wings of Tragedy Tad Morose – A Mended Rhyme The 3rd and the Mortal – In This Room The Newlydeads – The Newlydeads Therion – A'arab Zaraq – Lucid Dreaming Transport League – Superevil Tura Satana – Relief Through Release U.D.O. – Solid The Union Underground – The Union Underground Unleashed – Warrior Vader – Black to the Blind Vital Remains – Forever Underground Warrant – Warrant Live 86–97 (live) Whitesnake – Restless Heart Windir – Sóknardalr Within Temptation – Enter W.A.S.P. – Kill Fuck Die Xero – Xero (EP; early version of Linkin Park under their original name) Y&T – Endangered Species Zimmers Hole – Bound by Fire Disbandments Acid Bath Jane's Addiction (reformed in 2001) Memento Mori Osvajači (reformed in 1999) Rollins Band (reformed in 1999) Soundgarden (reformed in 2010) Torque X Japan (reformed in 2007) Events Mötley Crüe and former vocalist Vince Neil reconcile their differences, and Neil rejoins the band. Black Sabbath reunites with the original line-up between Black Sabbath and Never Say Die!. Bassist Mooseman leaves Body Count and is replaced by Griz. Meanwhile, the late drummer Beatmaster V is replaced by O.T. After a two-year hiatus, vocalist Mike Muir and rhythm guitarist Mike Clark reform Suicidal Tendencies. Rocky George and Robert Trujillo are replaced by Dean Pleasants and Josh Paul on guitar and bass respectively, and future Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman also joins. The Mentors frontman, Eldon Hoke, is killed when hit by a train. Former Slipknot vocalist, Anders Colsefni, is replaced with current lead singer of Slipknot, Corey Taylor. References Heavy Metal Timeline 1996 1998 1997 Category:1990s in heavy metal music Metal