SYMPHONIES OF DESTRUCTION

THE TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 1997

DEFTONES

AROUND THE FUR

Deftones kept pace with Korn as nu metal pack leaders on album #2. And in My Own Summer (Shove It), they turned in one of the year’s great anthems.

ELECTRIC WIZARD

COME MY FANATICS…

The misanthropic doommongers journeyed into metal’s darkest places on their second record. Drugs may have been involved – and they were bad ones.

EMPEROR ANTHEMS TO THE WELKIN AT DUSK

Emperor’s second album was the point at which black metal discovered its ambition. Where they led, everyone else followed.

Foo FIGHTERs

THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE

Forget today’s stadium rock – The Colour… was the greatest post-Nirvana record of them all. Heavy, emotional, anthemic – stardom beckoned.

INCUBUS

S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

Hovering between nu metal and funk rock, Incubus’s breakthrough album had dancefloor-filling tunes and a sensitive-dude singer that set them apart.