Opeth- Damnation

[MarkDTMMZ]

This album is probably already old news to most of you, but I'm discovering it for the first time it is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. It's Gothic yet pretty, ugly yet gorgeous. That's a very strange way to feel, but I feel this album really caputres it. It's one of those albums you get lost in, and your eyebrows raise every time they make those amazingly twisted chord movements. They're not forced at all either which is so cool. Steve Wilson did a great job playing keys, and an even better job with the production.
The album art is so indicitive of the album's mood and draws you right in. Just like Train of Thought, the plain but deep artwork takes you right into the center of the album and helps paint a picture that is so chilling though equally inviting.

Mark
www.mmzband.com

[lighthouse]

Hi Mark, I think I `ve made a post about this record before.....but anyway, this album ROCKS!!, I think is one of the most beauiful peaces of music I `ve ever heard....and as Arjen Lucassen said: I`ve become addicted to it!!
hahahaha

Cheers
Juan Pablo

[MarkDTMMZ]

Me too, I was actually driving with Damnation on through a town with really old historical buildings, cemeteries and country sides that I felt reminded me of the mood of the album, and I felt like I was driving through the mental picture that the CD paints. It was a really cool feeling.

Mark
www.mmzband.com

[Roddy_Bottum]

A great album. Deliverance and Damnation were ment to be released as a 2 Disc set although the band wanted them released spereately so they would really be two seperate entites. Great mood and musicanship all through the album :)

[El Duderino]

deliverance and damnation compliment each other perfectly...deliv. has some of my favorite opeth songs, and damn. is just magical

[whitelightening]

Not to be contrary or argumentative, but I've had the album for about three months now and I can't seem to get past the third or fourth song. I have tried, but it just sounds like too much of the same for me. I'm a much bigger fan of deliverance as where damnation just does nothing for me. It's sort of like Tool, where I can see, here and appreciate the musicianship, but I just don't get anything out of it. Go ahead, mark me down as probably the only person in the world who doesn't like this album.

[El Duderino]

i can definitely see where youre coming from...

i couldnt get past hope leaves for the longest time....what did it for me was when i got Lamentations (live dvd) and saw them perform the album live...after that i appreciated it a lot more...

the same thing kinda happened with Six Degrees and the World Tourbulence tour in 2002...i HATED the great debate but after seeing it live, i loved it and still do

[lighthouse]

Well....I declare myself addicted to it.....I just can`t stop listening the whole thing, it`s amazing. And Lamentations is even better. they have lots of feeling and that original sound.....!!.....exept Ending Credits, that is soooo much Camel!! 8)


Juan Pablo

[MarkDTMMZ]

The last few tunes aren't as catchy as the first few are. But once you appreciate them, you get pretty addicted to it like Lighthouse said. The way the album ends is bad ass. The transition between tracks 4 and 5 can catch you off guard when you're not used to it too. I've seen a little bit of the Lamnations DVD, I'm looking forward to getting it and watching them play the whole thing live. I hope they do more stuff like this in the future.

Mark
www.mmzband.com

[NecroVMX]

just so you know, the reason it wasn't released as a double cd with deliverance is not becuase of the band, but rather the label. more money that way :P

[lighthouse]

just so you know, the reason it wasn't released as a double cd with deliverance is not becuase of the band, but rather the label. more money that way


Well on the documentary on the Lamentations DVD Mikael says that the reason was that they had a lot of mellow riffs and ideas that someone suggested that they should release a mellow album and a heavy one :D


Juan Pablo

[MarkDTMMZ]

Interesting, I didn't know that. Either way, they're so completly different that it's cool to have two seperate things so you look at them different when you put them on. Then again you could just make it a double album, but whatever.

Mark
www.mmzband.com