Deliverance (Opeth album)

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Deliverance
Studio album by Opeth
Released	12 November 2002
Recorded	22 July-4 September 2002
Genre	Technical Death Metal
Length	61:50
Label	Koch
Producer	Opeth and Steven Wilson
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (favourable) link
Opeth chronology
Blackwater Park (2001) Deliverance (2002) Damnation (2003)

Deliverance is Opeth's sixth studio album, following the band's highly successful 2001 album, Blackwater Park. It was recorded between July 22 and September 4, 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, as Deliverance is considered to be one of the band's heaviest albums^{[citation needed]} whereas Damnation experimented with a much mellower progressive rock-influenced sound.^{[citation needed]}

Deliverance and Damnation were originally intended to be released as a double album, but the band eventually decided against this and released them separately, approximately six months apart from one another.

The album peaked on Top Heatseekers at #16 and the Top Independent Albums chart at #19.^[1]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Notes 3 Personnel 3.1 Band members 3.2 Guests 3.3 Production 4 References

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Mikael Åkerfeldt.

1. "Wreath" – 11:10
2. "Deliverance" – 13:36
3. "A Fair Judgement" – 10:24
4. "For Absent Friends" – 2:17
5. "Master's Apprentices" – 10:32
6. "By the Pain I See in Others" – 13:51

[edit] Notes

• The track "Master's Apprentices" was named after the seminal Australian hard/progressive rock group The Masters Apprentices.^[2]
• 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.
• Opeth won a Swedish Grammy with Deliverance for "best hard rock performance."^{[citation needed]}
• At the end of "By the Pain I See in Others", after a moment of silence, backwards chanting starts to play. When reversed, verses from the previous track "Master's Apprentices" can be heard.
• According to the official Opeth website, "By the Pain I See in Others" is guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt's least favorite Opeth song.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Band members

• Mikael Åkerfeldt – vocals, guitar
• Peter Lindgren – guitar
• Martin Mendez – bass
• Martin Lopez – drums

[edit] Guests

• Steven Wilson – backing vocals, guitar, mellotron

[edit] Production

• Produced by Opeth and Steven Wilson
• Fredrik Nordström − Engineer
• Andy Sneap − Mixing
• Travis Smith − Design, Photography, Execution
• Rex Zachary − Photography
• Ken Seaney − Photography

[edit] References

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