IMPORTANT NOTE:
--This order is determined by albums
currently
reviewed on UMR. The lists may change in the future, as more albums from each year are reviewed.
Again, only albums which are reviewed may get ranked.
Top Albums: 1997
9.6--
Iced Earth--Days of Purgatory
9.4--
Conception--Flow
9.4--
Impellitteri--Eye of the Hurricane
9.3--
Bruce Dickinson--Accident of Birth
9.3--
Stratovarius--Visions
9.1--
Jag Panzer--The Fourth Judgment
9.0--
Threshold--Extinct Instinct
9.0--
Overkill--From the Underground and Below
9.0--
Marshall Law--Metal Detector
8.9--
Iron Maiden--Best of the Beast
8.8--
Judas Priest--Jugulator
8.8--
Elegy--State of Mind
8.8--
Iron Savior--Iron Savior
8.8--
Geezer--Black Science
8.7--
Flotsam and Jetsam--High
8.6--
Symphony X--The Divine Wings of Tragedy
8.6--
Impellitteri--Fuel For the Fire
8.6--
Saxon--Unleash the Beast
8.5--
Testament--Demonic
8.5--
Vanden Plas--The God Thing
8.5--
Creed--My Own Prison
8.5--
Treasure Land--Questions
8.5--
Intense--Dark Season
8.4--
Pantera--Official Live: 101 Proof
8.4--
Hammerfall--Glory to the Brave
8.4--
Mr. Blackwell--Burn
8.3--
In Flames--Whoracle
8.3--
Scanner--Ball of the Damned
8.3--
Sanvoisen--Soul Seasons
8.3--
Testament--Signs of Chaos: The Best of Testament
8.2--
Royal Hunt--Paradox
8.2--
Slaughter--Revolution
8.2--
Queensryche--Hear in the Now Frontier
8.2--
Dream Theater--Falling Into Infinity
8.2--
Emerald Rain--Broken Saviours
8.2--
Murder One--Murder One
8.2--
Savior Servant--Savior Servant
8.2--
Lion's Share--Two
8.2--
Criminal--Dead Soul
8.0--
Megadeth--Cryptic Writings
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