Amorphis "Black Winter Day (Germany, Nuclear Blast, NB 117-2 / 27361 68782)"

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.

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

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

Time: 13:52

Lyrics are based on the Finnish National pole book, "Kalevala".

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Sunlight Studios in September 1993.

Co-produced and co-engineered by Amorphis

Tomas Skogsberg – recording & engineering