Old Mornings Dawn

Old Mornings Dawn
Studio album by Summoning
Released	June 5, 2013
Recorded	2012-2013 at Nachtschattenstudio
Genre	Atmospheric black metal
Length	64:27
Label	Napalm
Producer	Summoning
Summoning chronology
Oath Bound (2006) Old Mornings Dawn (2013)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Exclaim!	[1]
Metal Storm	9/10[2]
Pitchfork Media	6.9/10[3]
Ultimate Guitar	6.3/10[4]

Old Mornings Dawn is the seventh full-length album by Summoning. With two bonus tracks contained by the box-set and forest green, white and orange vinyl double LP versions, this album is to the date the band's longest one. The cover art is based on George Hetzel's painting, Rocky Gorge. Silenius commented on the album's title: "Old Mornings Dawn is no concept album, but this time we mostly experienced the stories and legends of Eärendil the mariner: half man half eldar, ancestor of the kings of Númenor, with the Silmaril of his forehead he became an immortal star. 4 songs are dealing with this topic. The lyrics of another two songs come from the poems "City of Present Sorrow" and "Town of Dreams", two very old poems by J. R. R. Tolkien written at a time when the first world war was raging. The rest of the lyrics came from unknown writers or are written by myself and as ever are closely woven to the Tolkien universe". ^[5]

Track listing

• All songs by Summoning. (2013 Summoning/Iron Avantgarde Publishing)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Evernight" (instrumental)	02:48
2.	"Flammifer"	07:07
3.	"Old Mornings Dawn"	09:29
4.	"The White Tower"	09:35
5.	"Caradhras"	09:31
6.	"Of Pale White Morns and Darkened Eves"	08:22
7.	"The Wandering Fire"	08:02
8.	"Earthshine"	09:33
Total length:		64:27

Bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
9.	"The Darkening of Valinor" (instrumental)	04:04
10.	"With Fire and Sword"	06:46
Total length:		75:17

Line-up

• Protector - guitars, keyboards, drum programming, vocals on 4, 7, 8 and 10, backing vocals on 3
• Silenius - keyboards, bass, vocals on 2, 3, 5 and 6
• Erika Szűcs - voice on 1 and 4
• David Says - spoken words on 3 and 8

Chart positions

Chart (2013)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[6]	193
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[7]	24
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8]	98
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[9]	51
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[10]	99

External links

• Old Mornings Dawn at Discogs

References

1. Munro, Tyler (June 4, 2013). "Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn". Exclaim!. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
2. "Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn review". Metal Storm. June 7, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
3. Kelly, Kim (July 12, 2013). "Summoning: Old Mornings Dawn". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
4. "Old Mornings Dawn Review". Ultimate Guitar. June 7, 2013. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
5. Interview with Summoning, by Grande-Rock.com retrieved on November 22nd, 2013.
6. "Ultratop.be – Summoning – Old Mornings Dawn" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
7. "Summoning: Old Mornings Dawn" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
8. "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
9. "Swedishcharts.com – Summoning – Old Mornings Dawn". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
10. "Swisscharts.com – Summoning – Old Mornings Dawn". Hung Medien. Retrieved February 1, 2014.