Dark Forest is a one-man pagan metal band based in Calgary, Canada. Dark Forest was created in late 2003 by David Parks. The vision of Dark Forest remains to create a style of atmospheric metal fuelled by nature and heathenism. Parks began the initial writing process in late 2003 with the song titled Among Silent Pine. While not a metal song, but rather a nature styled soundtrack, it laid the groundwork for Dark Forest songs to come. The writing process continued from here until early 2005. A four track Demo was arranged and released that summer; this was titled Demo 2005. It received many positive reviews, and was hailed one of the most promising demos of that year. Demo 2005 broke out into the local metal community that summer, and gained much respect and support. Parks continued the writing process to lay the groundwork for his first full-length album. During this same time, a live interest started to appear. A live session line-up was assembled in September of 2005, only two months after the release