Jungle Rot - Slaughter the Weak [1997] (Remastered 2002)

Artist: Jungle Rot 

Album: Slaughter the Weak
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/k9mRo8WTaJ8 / https://backonblack.bandcamp.com/jungle rot
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Left for Dead

2. Gore Bag

3. Infectious

4. Demigorgon

5. Consumed in Darkness

6. Murder One

7. Butchering Death

8. World of Hate

9. Deadly Force

Witness: -[*]-

Night In Gales - Towards the Twilight [1997]

Artist: Night In Gales

Album: Towards the Twilight
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/kzvaYeNaUK4 / https://night-in-gales.com/
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Towards a Twilight Kiss

2. Of Beauty's Embrace

3. Razor

4. From Ebony Skies

5. Autumn Water

6. Slavesun

7. Through Ashen Meadows

8. Avoid Secret Vanity

9. Tragedians

Witness: -[*]-
Even though they came into the scene towards the end of the heyday, I always felt that Night In Gales had a very entertaining twist on the Gothenburg sound. This album was easily my favorite of their early releases. 

Mortal Decay - Sickening Erotic Fanaticism [1997]

Artist: Mortal Decay

Album: Sickening Erotic Fanaticism
Year: 1997
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XVu8NTCBJGI / https://www.facebook.com/mortaldecayusa
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Decomposed with Nitric Acid

2. Sickening Erotic Fanaticism

3. Revived Half Dead

4. Meditating Through Mayhem

5. Apparitions

6. Opening the Graves

7. Columbian Necktie

8. Soaking in Entrails

9. Consume the Rancid Gore

10. Rejoice in Moribund

Witness: -[*]-
I was so happy to add this disc to my collection as this was the only full-length Mortal Decay album I didn't have a physical CD or digital copy of and until a couple of months ago I had never even heard this album. I am glad that I finally got around to it because it is so good just like everything else they have done. It has been 11 years since their last proper release but in 2015 they released a new single as part of a split with Defeated Sanity so I'm hoping we will get something more from these sickos soon.

In Thy Dreams - Stream of Dispraised Souls (EP) [1997]

Artist: In Thy Dreams

Album: Stream of Dispraised Souls
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/4nhzgUvThw4
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fateless

2. Glistening Truth

3. Fleeing Illusion

4. Dreams Within

5. Stream of Dispraised Souls

Witness: -[*]-
I stumbled across this band back in 97 with this EP and thought to myself, "damn this is top-notch!" but the production was weak on this CD and the sound volume was too low, so you had to crank the shit out of it to be able to bang your head. It doesn't matter though because the songs were brutally melodic and killer for me. 

Edge Of Sanity - Infernal [1997]

Artist: Edge Of Sanity

Album: Infernal
Year: 1997
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/O5fUQuqbwTU / https://www.pulltheplugpatches.com/edge-of-sanity
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hell Is Where the Heart Is

2. Helter Skelter

3. 15:36

4. The Bleakness of It All

5. Damned (by the Damned)

6. Forever Together Forever

7. Losing Myself

8. Hollow

9. Inferno

10. Burn the Sun

11. The Last Song

Witness: -[*]-
Edge Of Sanity was my first favorite death metal band. I had a lot of favorite metal bands throughout the '80s but EOS was my first truly favorite death metal band in the early part of the '90s because at the time I needed something a little more accessible to get me into the genre and The Spectral Sorrows & Purgatory Afterglow did that for me. I felt like this album was better than it was reviewed and discussed over the years. My favorites are the highlighted tracks. I know it is very melodic and "commercial" sounding but there are some good songs here in my opinion. This and all of the older albums are my own CD rips \m/\m/

Corpses Conductor - Corpse's Conductor [1997] (Re-Issue 2022)

Artist: Corpses Conductor

Album: Corpse's Conductor
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/XUhK8uwQFec / https://huangquanrecords.bandcamp.com/corpses conductor
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Intro  

2. Into the Dark  

3. Obscure Reality  

4. Hypocrisy  

5. Dreams of Terror  

6. Existential...  

7. Deceived by Life

Witness: Link removed 

Algophobia - Algophobia [1997]

Artist: Algophobia

Album: Algophobia
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/5gwN97M81F8
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Darkness

2. Lord of My Lost Dream

3. Hate

4. Sea of Illusions

5. Dreams

6. Eternal Hope

7. Vibration of Peace

8. Christ's Nails

9. Mental Creation

10. New Guide

Witness: -[*]-

Eucharist - Mirrorworlds [1997]

Artist: Eucharist

Album: Mirrorworlds
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/E8C9Ci-qS8s
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Mirrorworld

2. Dissolving

3. With the Sun

4. The Eucharist

5. Demons

6. Fallen

7. In Nakedness

8. Bloodred Stars

Witness: -[*]-
I really liked the first 2 full length albums from this band and had assumed they were split up until I saw that Lord Frost had posted a new album from them at his site recently. I checked it out and it doesn't grab me the way that this older stuff did but it did get me to go back and enjoy these albums again. This is my own HQ CD rip. 

Sacrilege - The Fifth Season [1997]

Artist: Sacrilege
Album: The Fifth Season
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/9zEea7vI_P8
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Summon the Masses and Walk Through the Fire
2. Sweet Moment of Triumph
3. Nine Eyes of Twilight
4. Feed the Cold
5. Fifth Season
6. Moaning Idiot Heart
7. Dim with Shame
8. Seduction Nocturne
9. In Winter Enticed
10. Sorg

Witness: -[*]-
Final release as Sacrilege, another essential piece in the history of Sweden's contributions to 90's melodic death metal.

Gates Of Ishtar - The Dawn of Flames [1997]

Artist: Gates of Ishtar

Album: The Dawn of Flames
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/ABza6XOKhj0
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Perpetual Dawn (The Arrival of Eternity - End My Pain)
2. Trail of Tears
3. Forever Scarred
4. Dreamfields
5. Dawn of Flames
6. Eternal Sin
7. No Time
8. The Embrace of Winter

Witness: -[*]-

Gardenian - Two Feet Stand [1997]

Artist: Gardenian

Album: Two Feet Stand
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/4Yq12xvZq80
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Two Feet Stand
2. Flipside of Reality
3. The Downfall
4. Awake of Abuse
5. Netherworld
6. Do Me Now
7. Murder
8. Freedom
9. Mindless Domination
10. The Silent Fall
11. Ecstasy of Life

Witness: -[*]-
Gardenian came into being during the latter part of the Gothenburg scene at the end of the '90s, and while they were probably not one of the better-known bands from that scene, I did think this was a pretty good debut effort.

Autumn Leaves - Embraced By the Absolute [1997]

Artist: Autumn Leaves
Album: Embraced By the Absolute
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/qCWHA5AGJkQ
Country: Denmark
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Blood
2. Forever the Destiny
3. Universal Flood
4. On the Verge of Tears
5. Rise from Your Nest
6. Serpent
7. Hope Springs Eternal
8. The Surface Anger
9. Weakening Trip
10. Embraced by the Absolute

Witness: -[*]-
I really liked this disc when I first heard it and it's pretty hard to believe that was almost 25 years ago now. Damn, time is flying and I'm getting old but this is still a killer disc \m/\m/

Crown Of Thorns - Eternal Death [1997]

Artist: Crown Of Thorns

Album: Eternal Death 
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/_vSWa6J06dY
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Angels Die

2. Beautiful Evil Soul

3. In Bitterness and Sorrow

4. The Black Heart

5. World Within

6. The Serpent Garden

7. Kill (The Priest)

8. Misery Speaks

9. Hunger

10. Death of God

Witness: -[*]-
Awesome, old-school, death thrash from the OG masters of the style! It's my own CD rip too \m/\m/

Mörk Gryning - Return Fire [1997]

Artist: Mörk Gryning

Album: Return Fire
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Black Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/MXWy-MbkJUM
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. World of the Dragon

2. Supreme Hatred

3. The Doom of Planet Yucnown

4. The Surrounding

5. Dreams, Sweet Dreams

6. No Longer in Wait

7. Manhunter

8. Return Fire  

9. Dawn of the Magic Aeon

10. Master of Fire

11. Necrophiliac (Slayer cover)

Witness: link removed
I saw that Lord Frostdomain had the new Mörk Gryning up at his site last week and it made me break out this old disc of mine and give it a renewed listen. I used to be into bands like this and Ophthalamia but haven't listened to these discs in a long time. This is my own No Fashion CD rip + scans.

Centinex - Reflections [1997]

Artist: Centinex 

Album: Reflections
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/DZIA6QEPIws
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Carnal Lust
2. Seven Prophecies
3. Before the Dawn
4. The Dimension Beyond
5. My Demon Within
6. In Pain
7. Undivined
8. Darkside
9. Into the Funeral Domain

Witness: -[*]-

Fleshcrawl - Bloodred Massacre [1997]

Artist: Fleshcrawl
Album: Bloodred Massacre
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/Ah11bme9bXI
Country: Germany
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hellspawn
2. Dark Dimension
3. Bloodred Massacre
4. Awaiting the End
5. The Messenger
6. Through the Veil of Dawn
7. Necrophiliac (Slayer Cover)
8. Beyond Belief
9. Slaughter at Dawn

Witness: -[*]-
My own original pressing CD rip \m/\m/

Dimension Zero - Penetrations From the Lost World (EP) [1997]

Artist: Dimension Zero

Album: Penetrations From The Lost World
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/bcnIfGTIO7c
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Through the Virgin Sky
2. Dead Silent Shriek
3. Forgotten...But Not Forgiven
4. Everlasting Neverness

Witness: -[*]-
Swedish supergroup featuring Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Liers In Wait, Lord Belial, and Marduk members, just to name a few. The first 2 tracks on this EP are stellar examples of the melodic death metal genre. CD rip but it's recorded low so crank it up! \m/\m/

Coercion - Forever Dead [1997]

Artist: Coercion
Album: Forever Dead
Year: 1997
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/zv9AxmxCf9o
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Coughing Blood
2. Blind Witness
3. Cursed with Existence
4. Dead Meat
5. Crawling in Filth
6. Breeding the Enemy
7. Down We Go
8. Human Failure
9. March
10. Forever Dead
11. Scattered
12. Grief (Beyond Belief)

Witness: -[*]-
Old school brutality, Swedish style. CD rip + scans (\m/\m/)

The Everdawn - Poems - Burn the Past [1997]

Artist: The Everdawn
Album: Poems - Burn the Past
Year: 1997
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: http://youtu.be/MhrzWgKiKpQ
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Territory Loss
2. When The Sunset Forever Fade
3. Needlework 8
4. Where Pain Never Dies
5. Autumn, Sombre Autumn
6. Burn
7. Poems
8. Opera Of The Damned

Witness: -[*]-
Minor old school melo-death classic. There are a handful of great songs on this disc. It's recorded very low, so crank it up and fucking jam! CD rip + scans.