Damnation
- Scores: Noise 1, Unease 1, Complexity 1 (each 1 to 5)
- Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock, Folk
- Mood: melancholic, hushed, autumnal
- Sound: clean vocals, mellotron, acoustic and clean guitars, no growls, slow tempos
Opeth recorded this in July to September 2002 at Studio Fredman and Nacksving Studio in Gothenburg, with additional work at Steven Wilson's No Man's Land studio in Hemel Hempstead. It was made in the same sessions as Deliverance and released five months later. It is the first Opeth album with only clean vocals and clean guitars, with prominent Mellotron from Wilson, who co-produced it and handled mixing and mastering. The chorus melody of To Rid the Disease is borrowed from a track by Mikael Åkerfeldt's side project Sörskogen.
Track list
- Windowpane (7:44)
- In My Time of Need (5:46)
- Death Whispered a Lullaby (5:49)
- Closure (5:15)
- Hope Leaves (4:27)
- To Rid the Disease (6:18)
- Ending Credits (3:36)
- Weakness (4:08)