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| Released | 22 April 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 22 July – 4 September 2002 7 October 2002 | |||
| Studio | Various
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| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 43:03 | |||
| Label | Koch (US), Music For Nations (UK) | |||
| Producer | Opeth, Steven Wilson | |||
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Damnation is the seventh studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was released on 22 April 2003, five months after Deliverance, which was recorded at the same time. Damnation is the last Opeth album to date to be produced by Steven Wilson although he did mix two future albums, Heritage and Pale Communion. Mikael Åkerfeldt dedicated both Damnation and Deliverance to his grandmother, who died in a car accident during the time the albums were being recorded.[3]
The album was a radical departure from Opeth's typical death metal sound, and the first Opeth album to use all clean vocals, clean guitars, and prominent Mellotron, as well as being inspired by 1970s progressive rock, particularly the work of the British band Camel,[4] which typically features no heavy riffs or extended fast tempos. Despite the change in style from Opeth's previous albums, Damnation was critically acclaimed and boosted their popularity, leading to the release of Lamentations on DVD in late 2003.
- ^ [1] Archived September 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2] Archived January 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Opeth - Trivia - Metal Storm".
- ^ According to the liner notes to Deliverance