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• Released in 2003, Damnation is easily the most radical departure of Opeth’s career. The companion piece to the previous year’s Deliverance set, to which it was originally inextricably married (before record company marketing men got their dirty little hands on them), the album is the first to explore the group’s non-heavy metal-based songwriting both at length and exclusively.

  Since all of Opeth’s previous outings were specifically conceived for the express purpose of contrasting heavy and light, violent and delicate, black and white, such a uniform presentation would already be surprising enough, but perhaps even more astounding is the realization that Damnation can’t even be termed a heavy metal album. This is because, except for very brief moments in the excellent “Closure,” not a