The debut Northaunt album which first saw the daylight back in 2001 on Polish label Fluttering Dragon. "The Ominous Silence" is more musical album than its followers, with a lot of piano, guitar and synth melodic parts like in the classical tracks "De Sorte Trær" and "Pain Is Better", but the typical Northaunt elegiac melancholy and dark gloomy nordic ambient soundscapes are already here.