  | 
Angra | 
  | 
Freedom Call (1996) [EP] | 
  | 
  | 
Power Metal, Progressive Metal | 
70 | 
1 | 
  | 
Angra | 
  | 
Holy Live (1997) [Live] | 
  | 
  | 
Power Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Artension | 
  | 
Phoenix Rising (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
90 | 
1 | 
  | 
Avalon | 
  | 
Mystic Places (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Power Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Conception | 
  | 
Flow (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Power Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
DGM | 
  | 
Change Direction (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Dreamscape | 
  | 
Trance - Like State (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Eldritch | 
  | 
Headquake (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Eternity X | 
  | 
The Edge (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Headline | 
  | 
Escape (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Power Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Ivanhoe | 
  | 
Polarized (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Jordan Rudess | 
  | 
Secrets Of The Muse (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Manigance | 
  | 
Signe De Vie (1997) [EP] | 
  | 
  | 
Power Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Mekong Delta | 
  | 
Pictures At An Exhibition (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Pain Of Salvation | 
  | 
Entropia (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
85 | 
1 | 
  | 
Sieges Even | 
  | 
Uneven (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Vanishing Point | 
  | 
In Thought (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Voivod | 
  | 
Phobos (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Digital Ruin | 
  | 
Listen (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Cirrha Niva | 
  | 
The Mirror World Dimension (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Gothic Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensrÿche | 
  | 
spOOL (1997) [Single] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Queensrÿche | 
  | 
Sign of the Times (1997) [Single] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
The Dillinger Escape Plan | 
  | 
The Dillinger Escape Plan (1997) [EP] | 
  | 
  | 
Mathcore, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Shai Hulud | 
  | 
A Profound Hatred of Man (1997) [EP] | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metalcore | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Threshold | 
  | 
Extinct Instinct (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Symphony X | 
  | 
The Divine Wings of Tragedy (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal, Power Metal | 
92.5 | 
2 | 
  | 
Kamelot | 
  | 
Dominion (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Power Metal, Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Fates Warning | 
  | 
A Pleasant Shade Of Gray (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 | 
  | 
Elegy | 
  | 
State of Mind (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Power Metal, Progressive Metal | 
75 | 
1 | 
  | 
Thought Industry | 
  | 
Black Umbrella (1997) | 
  | 
  | 
Progressive Metal | 
- | 
0 |