Top 10 Rock and Metal Albums of 1997

1 City - Strapping Young Lad

2 Ok Computer - Radiohead

3 Around the Fur - Deftones

4 Sehnsucht - Rammstein

5 Ocean Machine: Biomech - Devin Townsend

6 Nimrod - Green Day

7 Jugulator - Judas Priest

8 The More Things Change... - Machine Head

9 Falling Into Infinity - Dream Theater

10 Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber

The Contenders

11 Reload - Metallica

12 Cryptic Writings - Megadeth

13 Hear In the Now Frontier - Queensryche

14 The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters

15 My Own Prison - Creed

16 Whoracle - In Flames

17 Official Live: 101 Proof - Pantera

18 The Pagan Prosperity - Old Man's Child

19 Angels Fall First - Nightwish

20 Keys to Ascension 2 - Yes

21 The Michael Schenker Story Live - The Michael Schenker Group

22 Aftertaste - Helmet

23 The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Symphony X

24 Somewhere Out in Space - Gamma Ray

25 Outcast - Kreator