Deadwing by Porcupine Tree

Deadwing, Porcupine Tree's eighth studio album, arrived through Lava Records in March 2005, and it began life as something else entirely: a ghost story Steven Wilson had written as a screenplay with Mike Bennion. When the film never found its money, songs meant for the soundtrack, the title track, "Lazarus", "Arriving Somewhere but Not Here", "Open Car" and "Mellotron Scratch", were folded into the band's next record instead. "Lazarus" and "Open Car" are basically Wilson alone, with Gavin Harrison's drums added afterwards.

Wilson produced it himself, and the lineup of Wilson, Richard Barbieri on keyboards, Colin Edwin on bass and Harrison on drums drives the band's prog deeper into metal: serrated riffs that give way to hushed, haunted melody. King Crimson's Adrian Belew tears off guitar solos on the title track and "Halo", while Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt adds harmonies and the second solo on "Arriving Somewhere but Not Here". It became the band's best seller, until Fear of a Blank Planet overtook it.

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