Length 61:50 Artist Opeth | Deliverance
(2002) Damnation
(2003) Release date 4 November 2002 | |
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Released 12 November 2002 (2002-11-12) Recorded 22 July 2002 – 4 September 2002 at Maestro Musik and Studio Fredman Label Koch, Music for Nations Genres Progressive rock, Death metal, Progressive metal, Technical death metal Producers Mikael Åkerfeldt, Steven Wilson Awards Grammis Award for Hard Rock/Metal of the Year Similar Damnation, Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, My Arms - Your Hearse, Still Life | ||
Deliverance is Swedish heavy metal band Opeth's sixth studio album. It was released on 12 November 2002. It was recorded between 22 July and 4 September 2002 (see 2002 in music), at the same time as Damnation, which was released the following year. The two albums contrast starkly with one another, purposely dividing the band's two most prevalent styles, as Deliverance is considered to be one of the band's heaviest albums, whereas Damnation experiments with a much mellower progressive rock-influenced sound.
Contents
Background
The band originally intended for Deliverance and Damnation to be released as a double album, but the record company eventually decided against this and released them separately, approximately five months apart from one another in order to promote them properly.
The recording sessions also became a writing session of two albums worth of material, causing the recordings to be long as there were no songs written prior to that point. Åkerfeldt wrote the songs in the night and recorded them with the band during the days.
The track "Master's Apprentices" was named after the Australian hard/progressive rock group The Masters Apprentices. The track "For Absent Friends" was named after a song of the same name, originally appearing on the album Nursery Cryme by progressive rock group Genesis.
At the end of "By the Pain I See in Others", the final note fades slowly and ends at 10:40. Silence follows until 12:00, followed by two backmasked verses from "Master's Apprentices" at 12:20 and 13:15. This two backmasking verses are a ghost track.
Reception
Deliverance peaked on Top Heatseekers at No. 16 and the Top Independent Albums chart at No. 19, making it the first Opeth release ever to chart. Opeth also won a Grammis Award for Best Hard Rock Performance after releasing the album.
Track listing
All tracks written by Mikael Åkerfeldt.
Opeth
Additional personnel
Songs
1Wreath11:10
2Deliverance13:36
3A Fair Judgement10:24