Opeth: Blackwater Park
(Its pretty much the zenith of Progressive Death meets Folk metal)
Tiamat: Wildhoney
(Without Tiamat's masterpiece from 1994, you probably don't have any Opeth as we now know it. This was a difinitive album for this kind of music)
Ephel Duath: The Painter's Pallet
(This masterpiece from the Italian Avant Garde band fuses Jazz with metal while tackling the high concept of representing color through musical textures)
more later......





