Hopefully this hasn't been done before or in a long time, but do you think it would have been cooler/better/greater/worse/stupid/whatever the fuck u want...if Deliverance and Damnation came in a double cd case and were released on the same date, so you could listen to them back to back.
Deliverance+Damnation
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The Grimace
New Metal Member
Before Damnation came out I was wishing they were a double, but now I'm glad Damnation was given proper separation from Deliverance and the rest of the catalogue. It's nice to look at it as it's own unique little thing from all else Opeth has done.
Kenneth R.
Cináed
hmmm i think it would have been cool to have it as a 2CD set, but yeah. it IS different and should be treated as something out there that they did, apart from their other work
NFU
I like pie.
it was cool at the time of release...to have 2 different Opeth albums being released one after the other...usually one must wait a year or 2 to hear new material from a band.
but looking at it from a current standpoint, it wouldnt matter to me either way.
but looking at it from a current standpoint, it wouldnt matter to me either way.
Demoke
This is the Almighty:
I'm one of those who think that they should have been released together as a whole unit because they were meant to be one.
Demoke
This is the Almighty:
Otherwise, I would have liked them recorded in different sessions and, you know, we've talked about this some time...
B Crouch
Human
How long after was Damnation released after Deliverance? I see it was 2002/2003, respectively, but was it a matter of weeks, a couple of months?
Jinn
Saint
I like it a lot as two separate albums. A main reason of this is as a double-album it wouldn't gel if disc one was Deliverance and disc two was Damnation. Listening to them back to back doesn't feel cohesive to me (aside from the fact that Opeth in general feels cohesive if you know what I mean by this). So, for a succesful double disc you would have to intersperse the songs and mesh the albums together. And this is where it doesn't work. Damnation's predominantly clean nature obviously separates it from other Opeth albums, and its quiet, sad, reflective feeling creates a tension, drama, and reconciliation unique to it. Benighted, Credence, Harvest all work because they are unique within the album. If every other song were clean and a little more straightforward compositionally it would be a far less interesting listen for both the Damnation and Deliverance songs.
They are seperate because they are two completely different albums. Which is good because i hate double cd cases anyway.
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Luz
Cowgirl From Hell
I said that it dosen't really matter. However they were intended at one point to be a double album. I think if I were in a situation where I was showing someone new to the band what they are about. It would be neat to whip out a single album where you have all these mellow songs, and on the other hand just as much heavy material in one album. The more I think about it a ying yang album would have been a good thing.
An advantage for us with the two individual albums is that we get twice the artwork and a distinct visual theme.
Maleficus
Drow Warrior
I didn't mind it being seperate, I think each one deserved to be seperate, it would be cool if they came with a re-release of it as a double cd, though. but thats more interested in making money so I would doubt that
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I like them seperate, because I heard them both at different times throughtout my first checking out of the albums. It wouldn't have mattered though to me either way, they still would have had the same impact on me.
