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1997 in heavy metal music

This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1997.

Newly formed bands

• Akercocke
• American Head Charge
• Elvenking
• Finntroll
• Pig Destroyer
• Static-X
• The Dillinger Escape Plan
• uneXpect

Reformed Bands

• Black Sabbath
• Ratt

Albums

• Aerosmith - Nine Lives
• Alice Cooper - A Fistful Of Alice
• Black Sabbath - Reunion
• Body Count - Violent Demise: The Last Days
• Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
• Children of Bodom - Something Wild
• Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
• Deftones - Around The Fur
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Dillinger Escape Plan
• Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
• Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity
• Edguy - Kingdom of Madness
• Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
• Entombed - To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
• Europe - Definitive Collection (Compilation Album)
• Freak Kitchen - Junk Tooth EP
• Godflesh - Love and Hate in Dub
• Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion
• HammerFall - Glory to the Brave
• Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
• In Flames - Whoracle
• Judas Priest - Jugulator
• Kiss - Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions
• Kreator - Outcast
• Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Facing the Animal
• Machine Head - The More Things Change
• Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
• Metallica - ReLoad
• Mötley Crüe - Generation Swine
• Nightwish - Angels Fall First
• No Big Silence - 99
• Pig Destroyer - Demo
• Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer / Orchid (Split EP)
• Queensrÿche - Hear in the Now Frontier
• Rammstein - Sehnsucht
• Rhapsody of Fire - Legendary Tales
• Shadows Fall - Somber Eyes to the Sky
• Skid Row - Razor Sharp!
• Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
• Strapping Young Lad - City
• Stratovarius - Visions
• Stratovarius - The Past And Now
• The 3rd and the Mortal - In This Room, Streams (EP)
• U.D.O. -Solid
• Whitesnake - Restless Heart

Disbandments

• Soundgarden

Events

• Motley Crue 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.