Black Winter Day

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Black Winter Day
Amorphis-blackwinterday.jpg
EP by
Amorphis
Released31 January 1995 (1995-01-31)
Recorded
  • September 1993 (1)
  • September 1994 (2–5)
Studio Sunlight Studios
Genre
Length13:59
Label Relapse
Producer
  • Amorphis
  • Tomas Skogsberg
Amorphis chronology
Tales from the Thousand Lakes
(1994)		Black Winter Day
(1995)		 Elegy
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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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. [2]

Contents

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. [3]

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

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Black Winter Day"traditionalKasper Mårtenson3:48
2."Folk of the North"(instrumental) Tomi Koivusaari 1:17
3."Moon and Sun"traditionalKoivusaari3:36
4."Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son"traditionalKoivusaari5:10
Bonus track
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
5."Light My Fire" (The Doors cover)The DoorsThe Doors2:52
Total length:16:44
Fear – Gorefest, split
No.TitleNoteLength
5."Fear" 4:31
6."Raven" 3:07
7."Horrors in a Retarded Mind '94" 3:54
8."Fear"Live5:10
Total length:29:52

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Black Winter Day Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Amorphis – Band". Amorphis.net. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Dol Ammad - Winds Of The Sun , retrieved 26 December 2022
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