The band's original line-up includes the songwriter Attila Wind (vocals/guitars), Bálint Hamvas (bass), and Viktor Albert (drums).

The sound of the band is generally a mix of flanging and light distorted guitars, throbbing bass, and enchanting keyboard melodies.

This demo entitled Vanity helped the band recruit Albert who was Hamvas's classmate at the Budapest Business School.

After several concerts at local clubs, in spring 2001 the band started using the name Dawnstar, which is a combination of ″dawn″ and ″star″ as an alternative for Morning Star or Venus, instead of Ansellia.

On 10 April 2010, Dawnstar played at the Fringe Festival in Pécs which was selected to be the European Capital of Culture for the same year.

The band hired Dávid Schram, who previously worked on Shell Beach's This Is Desolation and FreshFabrik's MORA, as mixing and mastering engineer for their album.

[12] On 19 May 2013, Dawnstar uploaded three songs (Love's Gonna Be Tender, In Heaven We Meet Again, Ophelia) from their upcoming studio album on YouTube[13] and SoundCloud[14] and three months later the full record was available on Bandcamp.

The video was inspired by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez's psychological horror movie Blair Witch Project.

[19][20] On 12 February 2016 the band played a show at Szilvuplé Bár és Varieté in Budapest with three guest vocalist including: Viktória Wind (née Bordács), Zsófia Toporczy (Plüssnapalm), and Viktóra Sereg.

[22] In the video Wind is wandering in the streets of London, The United Kingdom passing by some famous sights such as Tower Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral.