“Opeth formed more than 15 years ago, but didn't manage to release an album until five years later, when Candlelight issued their debut, *Orchid*, in 1994. Gradually building an ever-loyal following, the Swedes flirted with semi-mainstream success around the time of the concurrently-recorded *Deliverance*, released in 2002, and *Damnation*, which came out a year later. The first found the band in h”
