"Last Ride of the Day" is the eleventh track from

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's seventh studio album ''

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''. This track was chosen as the official anthem for the Ice Hockey World Championships 2012 in

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produced a remix of the song as the new entrance music of the Kiteen Pallo sports team. Nightwish had previously created an early version of a song titled "Kiteen Pallo" () for the team in the past. Both versions of the songs (kipa.mp3 for the original, and KIPA-90.mp3 for Orkidea's remix) could be found on the Nightwish.com website in the past, but have since been removed when the site was revamped for the release of ''

''. A new video related to the song has been released in 2022.

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