{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{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}}<ref>Rivadavia, Eduardo. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=black-winter-day-ep-mw0000628006|pure_url=yes}} "''Black Winter Day'' Review"]. AllMusic. Retrieved 30 June 2013.</ref> | noprose = yes }} '''''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.<ref>[http://www.amorphis.net/?page_id=2 "Amorphis – Band"]. ''Amorphis.net''. Retrieved 30 June 2013.</ref>

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''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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 }}

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=== 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

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=== Additional personnel === *Ville Tuomi – speech/spoken word *Tomas Skogsberg – recording & engineering

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

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