After the band Worlds Collide broke up, featuring Ken Olden on guitar and Hillel Halloway on bass, Damnation began as a studio project; on their early single releases, Olden plays drums in addition to guitar.
[1] In 1998, the group left Jade Tree for Revelation Records and released their second album, Kingdom of Lost Souls, in 1998.
The group split up shortly after, with Olden moving into recording and also working with Ray Cappo in Better Than a Thousand.
[1] Mike McTernan moved to Springfield, MA and sang with When Tigers Fight until 2007, when he and Olden decided to begin recording again.
In 2017, the band released a cover album of Pornography, originally recorded by The Cure.