Black Winter Day

Black Winter Day
EP by Amorphis
Released	31 January 1995 (1995-01-31)
Recorded	September 1993 (1) September 1994 (2–5)
Studio	Sunlight Studios
Genres	Melodic death metal doom metal
Length	13:59
Label	Relapse
Producers	Amorphis Tomas Skogsberg
Amorphis chronology
Tales from the Thousand Lakes (1994) Black Winter Day (1995) Elegy (1996)

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Black Winter Day is a split EP by Finnish progressive 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.

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.

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

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Black Winter Day"	traditional	Kasper Mårtenson	3:48
2.	"Folk of the North"	(instrumental)	Tomi Koivusaari	1:17
3.	"Moon and Sun"	traditional	Koivusaari	3:36
4.	"Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son"	traditional	Koivusaari	5:10

Bonus track

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
5.	"Light My Fire" (The Doors cover)	The Doors	The Doors	2:52
Total length:				16:44

Fear – Gorefest, split

No.	Title	Note	Length
5.	"Fear"		4:31
6.	"Raven"		3:07
7.	"Horrors in a Retarded Mind '94"		3:54
8.	"Fear"	Live	5:10
Total length:			29:52

Personnel

Amorphis

• Amorphis – arrangements, recording and engineering
  • Tomi Koivusaari – vocals and rhythm guitar
  • Esa Holopainen – lead guitar
  • Olli-Pekka Laine – bass guitar
  • Kasper Martenson – keyboards
  • Jan Rechberger – drums

Additional personnel

• Ville Tuomi – speech/spoken word
• Tomas Skogsberg – recording & engineering

Gorefest

• Jan-Chris de Koeijer – vocals and bass
• Boudewijn Bonebakker – guitars
• Frank Harthoorn – guitars
• Ed Warby – drums