Your Top 10 Hard Rock/Metal Released In 1997

No Order...

Cryptic Writings by Megadeth
Unleash The Beast by Saxon
Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk by Emperor
Come My Fanatics by Electric Wizard
The Fourth Judgement by Jag Panzer
Among Majestic Ruin by Morgion
Frequencies From Planet Ten by Orange Goblin
From The Underground And Below by Overkill
Reborn by Living Sacrafice
The Horse That Bud Bought by Galactic Cowboys

Honorable Mention- Live At The Fillmore East 2/11/69 by Grateful Dead

I couldn't just do 10, so here's an additional to make 11!!

Morgion - Among Majestic Ruin (my best friends band)
Edge of Sanity - Infernal
Edge of Sanity - Cryptic
Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Vader – Black to the Blind
Vital Remains – Forever Underground
Immortal – Blizzard Beasts
Malevolent Creation - In Cold Blood
Necrophobic - Darkside
Old Man's Child – The Pagan Prosperity
Dark Tranquillity – The Mind's I

The best EP's of that year in MY opinion are:

Incantation - The Forsaken Mourning of Angelic Anguish
Krabathor - Mortal Memories
Novembers Doom - For Every Leaf That Falls

'97 was a good year for metal, a lot of good stuff came out. It felt like we'd finally started to turn a corner after a long dry spell.

Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
Iron Savior - s/t
Judas Priest - Jugulator
Overkill - From The Underground & Below
Misfits - American Psycho
Jag Panzer - The Fourth Judgement
Raven - Everything Louder
Savatage - The Wake of Magellan*

*not released in U.S. till 1998.

Honorable mention: HammerFall - Glory To The Brave

In no order :

Brainstorm - Hungry
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
Overkill - From The Underground And Below
Judas Priest - Jugulator
KISS - Carnival Of Souls
Primal Fear - Primal Fear
Impellitteri - Eye Of The Hurricane
Flotsam And Jetsam - High
Steel Prophet - Into The Void
Stratovarius - Visions

It maybe wasn't the best year ever, but the highlights sure are bright!

1. Savatage - Wake of Magellan
2. Stratovarius - Visions
3. Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
4. Saxon - Unleash the Beast
5. Impellitteri - Eye of the Hurricane
6. Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out in Space
7. Judas Priest - Jugulator (YES! It's one of their best, a solid 9/10!)
8. Axel Rudi Pell - Magic
9. Jag Panzer - The Fourth Judgement
10. Royal Hunt - Paradox

I will have to flog myself for not being able to fit in Threshold's Extinct Instinct. It is pretty great, and I think I will play it again right now. But that top 10 is pretty solid. I can't fit it in. The problem with '97 and with most of the years of the 90's lies in the quality of the 11-50/100 when the industry had just abandoned this type of music, and obviously it's the smaller bands that immediately suffer.

Strapping Young Lad - City
Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Living Sacrifice - Reborn
Paradise Lost - One Second
Six Feet Under - Warpath
Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave
Misfits - American Psycho
Flotsam And Jetsam - High

007 wrote:

In no order :

Brainstorm - Hungry
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
Overkill - From The Underground And Below
Judas Priest - Jugulator
KISS - Carnival Of Souls
Primal Fear - Primal Fear
Impellitteri - Eye Of The Hurricane
Flotsam And Jetsam - High
Steel Prophet - Into The Void
Stratovarius - Visions

I like your list and I need to get those Flotsam and Steel Prophet albums. I also have four Brainstorm CDs, but Hungry is not one of them. It's really that good?

Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Misfits - American Psycho
Judas Priest - Jugulator
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Malevolent Creation - In Cold Blood
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
Defleshed - Under the Blade
Extreme Noise Terror - Damage 381
Jungle Rot - Slaughter the Weak
Liar - Invictus

Lari wrote:

007 wrote:

In no order :

Brainstorm - Hungry
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
Overkill - From The Underground And Below
Judas Priest - Jugulator
KISS - Carnival Of Souls
Primal Fear - Primal Fear
Impellitteri - Eye Of The Hurricane
Flotsam And Jetsam - High
Steel Prophet - Into The Void
Stratovarius - Visions

I like your list and I need to get those Flotsam and Steel Prophet albums. I also have four Brainstorm CDs, but Hungry is not one of them. It's really that good?

I think it is. Check these out :

That's my favourite Brainstorm album