It was fair to put Lateralus up against Blackwater Park. Lateralus is Tool's most highly regarded album, just as Blackwater Park is often Opeth's most highly regarded album. Undertow expanded on Opiate, Ænima expanded on Undertow, and Lateralus expanded on Ænima. Tool's music becomes more and more complex and abstract with every release. It really doesn't matter which album you would choose over Lateralus, because what you think isn't going to change anything. Lateralus is still often referred to as Tool's best album, and it still beat Blackwater Park. What exactly are you trying to prove?
When it comes to intricateness and divergency, Tool absolutely eradicate Opeth. Lateralus is one of Tool's most progressive albums. In fact, Lateralus alone is more progressive than anything Opeth have ever recorded. It's certainly more progressive than Undertow as well. If you don't think that Lateralus is a heavy, progressive album, then it's quite obvious that you are the one that needs to 'get real'.
Now quit trying to shove your uneducated opinion down everyone's throat and get back on topic.
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Lock to field screen, row the ocean onto sentient ground.
New rites of a Vedic sun to attend the blue horizon.
Prevails flight resplendent, sails the shrine effulgent windship.
Stillness breathes apex supreme - I walk toward the mountain.
Crowns the sovereic rite to freedom.
Shored the origin forms to a ground accede.
Axiom core of the light shrine flight to shining.
Glows serene to attenuate the space and time.
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