Damnation (Album)
Occupation
- Vocals, Guitar: Mikael Åkerfeldt
- Guitar: Peter Lindgren
- Bass: Martin Mendez
- Drums: Martin Lopez
Damnation is the seventh studio album by the Swedish metal band Opeth. It appeared in 2003, Music for Nations.
Creation and publication
After the release of Blackwater Park Opeth toured in 2001 in North America and Europe. Then Mikael Åkerfeldt new, very different -like material began to write. Jonas Renkse Katatonia came up with the idea to publish the different pieces on two contrasting albums. Music for Nations could only be convinced, as the band had agreed to treat both albums as regards the terms of their record contract and the financial support by the record company as a single.
Damnation and Deliverance predecessors were simultaneously recorded in summer 2002. The band and Steven Wilson, who also participated as guest musician (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Damnation produced, mixed and mastered Wilson also the album. Travis Smith was again responsible for the artwork. Sony Music put the album 2006 new, it also appeared several LP editions.
Title list
Style
Damnation is entirely dedicated to the quiet side of Opeth and comes without metal influences, without distorted guitars and guttural vocals from. Mikael Åkerfeldt sings soulful and emotional, the melancholic and atmospheric pieces are orchestrated simply with mostly acoustic guitar and occasional piano and mellotron use and interact with the leisurely pace that is " almost like a entschlackte slow motion version [ of Opeth's ] original sound ". In the press were drawn esp. comparisons to Porcupine Tree.
Reception
The reactions of the press on the album were mixed, but mostly positive. Finds Wolfgang Schäfer from Rock Hard that Damnation " has not become the team had hoped for litter. There is a lack of the disk, especially in the second half of the really exciting ideas and magical moments. " Is also Henning Mangold of the Baby Blue Pages " some places simply too shallow, " Horst Straske praises, however, " the atmospheric coherence of the album "and" very gentle and soulful power structure " of the pieces. Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic lifts the " reliable high-caliber songwriting " out, Rouven thorn of powermetal.de holds Damnation for " an album that has so much depth that it threatens to drown in it ", and the " milestone of a band on the zenith of their creativity is ".