Damnation
by Opeth
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Opeth bestography
Damnation is ranked 2nd best out of 19 albums by Opeth on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Opeth is Blackwater Park which is ranked number 753 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,296.
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Damnation track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/27/2026 23:00 | Gedi | 155 | 84/100 | |
| 02/26/2026 11:46 | platus | 5,867 | 74/100 | |
| 01/28/2026 16:25 |  jeremy9 | 3,656 | 70/100 | |
| 12/31/2025 12:49 |  doombringer | 2,237 | 75/100 | |
| 12/29/2025 17:58 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.8/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Opeth went to a totally different direction with this album. It set the turning point and the direction to all the following albums after Damnation. I like this album very much, it is more laid back then the previous releases and has some beautiful melodies. It shows the spectrum the band has and also Mikael's voice, that can so much more than just screaming. On this album he never growls or screams. So, every song is relaxing and brings beautiful soundscapes. Especially Windowpane is one of the greatest songs of the band.
jeremy9 11/12/2019 17:53 | #244731
So different so beautiful
My favourite Opeth album and you can hear the influence of Steve Wilson throughout the album. Haunting.
VictorVale 02/16/2019 20:31 | #232054
Extraordinário. Melodias brilhantes que descrevem a tristeza e a melancolia. Contraponto com o outros álbuns da banda.
LedZep 04/30/2018 21:58 | #213952
Such a great album, a counterpart to Deliverance what I believe may be their heaviest release. They really should've been a double album. Opeth is as beautiful as they are hard-hitting, and they certainly show that here.
Gooz 05/23/2014 13:22 | #112743
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It's good, not great. "Windowpane" is phenomenal and could measure up against anything on Blackwater Park, but the rest of the album fails to live up to it. Still pretty dang good, though.
It is true, I only listened to this because Steven Wilson produced, played the keyboard and co-wrote one track. But this is not a Steven Wilson album. It is clearly Mikael Åkerfeldt driven here. Such beautifully haunting tracks. Favourites are: the first 3 tracks, To Rid The Disease and Weakness.
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