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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 .
Damnation was released on 14 April 2003, and garnered the band its first appearance on the US Billboard 200 at number 192. [29] The album also won the 2003 Swedish Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. [32] On 1 January 2016, Opeth re-released both Deliverance and Damnation in one package, containing CD and DVD versions, along with new ...
The second album, Damnation was released a year later, and peaked at number 192 on the Billboard 200. [4] [6] Per Wiberg joined the band as a keyboardist and recorded Ghost Reveries, which peaked at number 64 on the Billboard 200. [6] Lopez and Lindgren both left Opeth and were replaced by Martin Axenrot and Fredrik Åkesson.
All of the songs on My Arms, Your Hearse are shorter than ten minutes, whereas on Opeth's previous album, Morningrise, every song exceeds this length. The album is dedicated to Lee Barrett (of Candlelight Records). [3] The title of the album is derived from the lyrics of the song "Drip, Drip" by the band Comus. [4]
Lamentations features Opeth playing the album Damnation in its entirety (with the song "Harvest" from Blackwater Park put in the running order before the last song), followed by some of the band's songs from Blackwater Park and Deliverance.
A few months after the making of the demos, Åkerfeldt was having dinner with Wilson in which the two discussed the idea of Wilson producing the next Opeth album. [12] After Åkerfeldt sent Wilson the demos he had recorded, Wilson agreed to produce the album. [12] Opeth entered Studio Fredman to begin work on Blackwater Park on August 10, 2000 ...
The recording for Deliverance and Damnation was fraught with troubles. The band had originally started recording the album in Nacksving Studio, but the recording process was plagued, not just by a variety of technical issues ranging from equipment breaking down to drum mics changing positions or disappearing, but also internal band issues.
Lindgren joined Opeth in 1991 as bassist for a show, but ended up switched to guitars. As explained in "The Making of Deliverance and Damnation" on Opeth's live DVD Lamentations, lead-playing duties were based on ease of Mikael Åkerfeldt's vocal delivery and which of the two might want a given solo more. If Åkerfeldt was having trouble with a ...