Black Winter Day

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{{Infobox album

| name = Black Winter Day

| type = EP

| artist = Amorphis

| cover = amorphis-blackwinterday.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|df=y|1995|01|31}}

| recorded = {{ubl|September 1993 (1)|September 1994 (2–5)}}

| venue =

| studio = Sunlight Studios

| genre = {{hlist|Melodic death metal|doom metal}}

| length = {{duration|m=13|s=59}}

| label = Relapse

| producer = {{hlist|Amorphis|Tomas Skogsberg}}

| prev_title = Tales from the Thousand Lakes

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = Elegy

| next_year = 1996

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}Rivadavia, Eduardo. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=black-winter-day-ep-mw0000628006|pure_url=yes}} "Black Winter Day Review"]. AllMusic. Retrieved 30 June 2013.

| noprose = yes

}}

Black Winter Day is a split EP by Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis with Dutch death metal band Gorefest, released in 1995. The track "Black Winter Day" is one of the band's best-known songs and continues to be a crowd favourite in live performances to this very day.[http://www.amorphis.net/?page_id=2 "Amorphis – Band"]. Amorphis.net. Retrieved 30 June 2013.

The song is covered by Children of Bodom on their album I Worship Chaos.

The song is also covered by Dol Ammad and the track appears on their album Winds of the Sun.{{Citation |title=Dol Ammad - Winds Of The Sun |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2889892-Dol-Ammad-Winds-Of-The-Sun |language=en |access-date=2022-12-26}}

This is the last Amorphis release with Kasper Mårtenson and to have the band's original logo.

Track listing

{{Track listing

| title1 = Black Winter Day

| lyrics1 = traditional

| music1 = Kasper Mårtenson

| length1 = 3:48

| title2 = Folk of the North

| lyrics2 = (instrumental)

| music2 = Tomi Koivusaari

| length2 = 1:17

| title3 = Moon and Sun

| lyrics3 = traditional

| music3 = Koivusaari

| length3 = 3:36

| title4 = Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son

| lyrics4 = traditional

| music4 = Koivusaari

| length4 = 5:10

}}

{{Track listing

| total_length = 16:44

| headline = Bonus track

| title5 = Light My Fire

| note5 = The Doors cover

| lyrics5 = The Doors

| music5 = The Doors

| length5 = 2:52

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Fear – Gorefest, split

| total_length = 29:52

| extra_column = Note

| title5 = Fear

| length5 = 4:31

| title6 = Raven

| length6 = 3:07

| title7 = Horrors in a Retarded Mind '94

| length7 = 3:54

| title8 =Fear

| extra8 = Live

| length8 = 5:10

}}

Personnel

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References