Black Winter Day

Black Winter Day
EP by Amorphis
Released January 31, 1995
Recorded September 1993 at Sunlight Studios
Genre Melodic death metal, doom metal
Length 13:59
Label Relapse
Producer Amorphis & Tomas Skogsberg
Amorphis chronology

Tales from the Thousand Lakes
(1994)		 Black Winter Day (EP)
(1995)		 Elegy
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Black Winter Day is an EP by the Finnish band Amorphis, 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]

Track listing

No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "Black Winter Day"  traditionalKasper Mårtenson 3:48
2. "Folk of the North"  (instrumental)Tomi Koivusaari 1:17
3. "Moon and Sun"  traditionalKoivusaari 3:36
4. "Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son"  traditionalKoivusaari 5:10
Bonus Track
No. Title Length
5. "Light My Fire" (The Doors cover) 2:52
Total length:
 16:44
Fear - Gorefest Split
No. Title Length
5. "Fear"   4:31
6. "Raven"   3:07
7. "Horrors in a Retarded Mind '94"   3:54
8. "Fear"   5:10
Total length:
 29:52

Personnel

Amorphis

  • Amorphis - arrangements, recording & engineering

Additional personnel

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

Gorefest

References

  1. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Black Winter Day Review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved June 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Amorphis - Band". Amorphis.net. Retrieved June 30, 2013.