The front cover of this album says it all. A dark mountain enveloped in trees with fog settling down creates an eerie atmosphere that is conveyed in the music within. Old Path's debut, The Coming of Eternal Dawn, takes you on a journey that places you right in the middle of that snowy forest on that very fog-covered mountaintop. A mixture of black metal and dark ambient create what lone member Hiram Lohr labels "ancient black metal." The mood shifts back and forth from black to ambient, with some songs being completely ambient. The vocals range from horrifying black shrieks to spoken passages, to whispers, to even some chanting. Production is decent with the main annoyance being the fake wolf howls and the use of a drum machine. Overall, an interesting experience that is very grim and very dark.
