Good point put forward by Lolpocolypse, in that some people seem to be basing their votes on the discographies of the bands rather than the individual albums being presented. The Enslaved album is good but Blackwater Park is a classic prog-metal album high on atmosphere and chillingly bleak with fantastic vocals by Akerfeldt, as his great vocals range from chilling grunts to melodies. The heaviness of the album gives way to gentle acoustic and piano pieces with great ambient soundscapes, in fact the only band that were covering similiar territory at the time were fellow Swedish band Tiamat (a great favourite of mine) and Porucpine Tree would pinch ideas back from Opeth for their In Absentia album the following year. As said, Opeth wins hands down here, its just a shame they adopted a somewhat predicatable formula after this album, of which its got to the stage were I hardly listen to the band anymore.
Opeth -3
Enslaved -2
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