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Poets of the Fall ( POTF ) is a rock band from Finland . It consists of Marko Saaresto (lead vocals), Olli Tukiainen (lead guitar) and Markus Kaarlonen|Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen (keyboards, production). http://www.poetsofthefall.com/aboutpoets On tour the band is supported by Jani Snellman (bass guitar), Jaska Mäkinen (rhythm guitar, backing vocals) and Jari Salminen (drums, percussion).

The band has sold over 100,000 albums in Finland.

History

Early years (2003–2004)

The band was founded in 2003 with the collaboration of Saaresto and Tukiainen who had written multiple songs for Saaresto's previous band Playground and performed with Finnish jazzband Pohjoinen Syke previously.

In 2003, Saaresto's friend Sami Järvi, a script-writer working at Remedy Entertainment handed Saaresto a poem he had written, asking him to turn it into a song to use in Remedy's upcoming video game Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne . The song, entitled Late Goodbye , was used as the ending-theme of the game as well as a recurring motif, being sung and whistled by multiple characters. It was produced by Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen, who joined the band shortly after due to Saaresto and Tukiainen liking his work.

Kaarlonen being a former employee of Benchmark (computing)|benchmark -developer Futuremark , POTF were offered to have their song Lift included in the 2005-literation of Futuremark's benchmarking software 3DMark , which exposed the band to a wider audience than Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne|Max Payne 2 had done.

In order to keep complete control and freedom over the band, the members founded their own independent record label, Insomniac, on which they have released all their CDs as of now.
On 30 June 2004, the Poets released their debut single Late Goodbye in Finland which was followed by Lift (Poets of the Fall song)|Lift on 9 September 2004. http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news , 30 June 2004 – retrieved on 1 October 2010 " http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news , 9 September 2004 The songs charted #14 and #8 on the Finnish single charts and reached #2 and #7 in Yleisradio|YleX's 2004-voting for "Best Finnish song". POTF were also voted "Fresh Newcomer of 2004" by YleX. The videos for both songs were directed by Tuomas "Stobe" Harju. POTF performed at Popkomm 2005 in Berlin. retrieved on 9 April 2011

On 18 December 2004, the Poets released a free download single on their website Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day to market the release of their debut album Signs of Life . http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news , 18 December 2004 After having been taken offline, it was remastered and reissued on the band's second album Carnival of Rust .

Signs of Life (2005–2006)

The band's debut album Signs of Life (Poets of the Fall album)|Signs of Life was released in Finland on 19 January 2005, followed by iTunes on 25 May 2005. retrieved on 9 April 2011 It entered the Finnish Top 40 album chart at number one and has been certified Gold record|platinum by the Finnish IFPI . The album was awarded the Emma-gaala|Emma Award for the "Best Debut Album of the Year 2005" and the band received the "Best Newcomer of the Year"-Award.

Accompanying the album, the band released a video for the song Lift (Poets of the Fall song)|Lift , directed by Tuomas "Stobe" Harju, and used the songs Stay and Illusion and Dream as promotional radio singles. http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news , 13 August 2005 The album contains a password granting access to a secret page on poetsofthefall.com that hosts a remix of the song Lift , entitled "Dramadance Remix" as well as wallpapers made from the Lift -video and the album-artwork.

The title Signs of Life is a reference to the Pink Floyd -instrumental Signs of Life (instrumental)|of the same name released in 1987.

Carnival of Rust (2006–2007)

Having won the "Best Finnish Breakthrough"-Award at the NRJ Radio Awards, POTF released their third single, entitled Carnival of Rust (song)|Carnival of Rust in Finland on 22 March 2006 with a release in Germany following on 1 December 2006. retrieved on 2 October 2010 The single, which entered the Finnish charts at No. 2, features a radio- and an album-edit as well as a live-recording of ''Don't Mess With Me , the fourth track on Signs of Life'', from the band's performance at Rockperry Festival, Vaasa, Finland on 15 July 2005.

On 30 March 2006, the band released the video to Carnival of Rust which shows a gas-masked woman visiting an old carnival, and also references every song from the band's second album Carnival of Rust|of the same name , became hugely popular in Finland, winning two Muuvi Awards as well as the YLE Audience Choice Award as "Best Finnish Music Video of All Time". It was also voted "Best Music Video 2006" by The Voice TV Finland|The Voice . http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news , 3 April 2006 – retrieved on 2 October 2010 In 2009, the video was remastered by Elmeri Raitanen as his Thesis (academic document)|bachelor-thesis in visual and media arts at Lahti Institute of Design and reissued in High-definition video|high definition . Retrieved on 21 April 2011

The Poets' second album Carnival of Rust was released in Finland on 12 April 2006 and has since been released in Sweden, Australia, Ukraine, Russia, Germany and on iTunes. http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news , 12 April 2006, retrieved on 2 October 2010 http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news ,12 September 2006 retrieved on 2 October 2010 It includes 11 new songs, a remastered version of Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day , as well as the . retrieved on 7 March 2011 The cover, which sees the return of the lollipop from the first album, was designed by Tuomas Harju.

Carnival of Rust also went straight to No. 1 on the Finnish charts. It has been certified Music recording sales certification|platinum . It was selected as one of the best albums 2006 by Finland's largest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat , and was nominated for "Best Finnish Album" at the NRJ Radio Awards as well as "Best Rock Album" at the Emma Awards in 2007. http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news , 17 December 2006

Revolution Roulette (2008–2009)

In 2008, POTF redesigned their moth-logo and also changed the font used to display their bandname. They also participated in the Voice's CD compilation Livenä Vieraissa , with a cover version of Chris Cornell|Chris Cornell's song " You Know My Name ", and their own song " Diamonds for Tears ".
In the same year, POTF signed Phoenix Effect, the band of former Sunrise Avenue -guitarist Janne Kärkkäinen to their Insomniac-label and produced their debut album Cyanide Skies with Saaresto / Tukiainen performing additional vocals / guitar work. The album was released on 18 February 2009 in Finland and entered the Finnish album charts at #22. retrieved on 6 October 2010 retrieved on 6 October 2010 POTF also make a cameo-appearance in the video to Phoenix Effect's song "King See No Evil".

Poets of the Fall released their next single called The Ultimate Fling in Finland on 6 February 2008. The single features three variations of the title track (a radio-edit, an album-edit and an impromptu-version) as well as a live recording of Fire , the opening track of the band's second album Carnival of Rust which was recorded during the Poets' performance at Ankkarock|Ankkarock Festival 2007 on 5 August. The single charted at No. 2 in the Finnish singles charts. Months after the release of the single, the band published the accompanying video which consists of fan-recorded footage of the band performing at various gigs.

The third POTF-album, entitled Revolution Roulette , was released in Finlan and on iTunes on 26 March 2008. Its cover was designed by Tuomas Harju and features a giant padlock with a built-in roulette , abandoning the lolipop used on the previous album-covers. The record marks the first POTF-album not produced in Markus Kaarlonen's living-room, but the band's own professional studio. It went straight to the top of the Finnish charts and was certified gold two weeks after being released. http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news 21 May 2008 The band also released the title track of the album as a promotional radio-single. Revolution Roulette is currently the only POTF album that has not been released physically outside Finland. While on tour with the album, the band played their first gig in the United States at Musexpo|Musexpo 2008 in Los Angeles on 29 April 2008. retrieved 5 May 2011

On 18 September 2009, the band released a "Best of"-compilation in India.

Twilight Theater (2010)

In mid-2009, after finishing the Revolution Roulette -tour, the band announced they would be heading into the studio to record their fourth album whose genre they described as "cinematic rock". On 9 December 2009, the band announced that a song entitled "War" from their fourth studio album would be featured in Alan Wake , a psychological thriller video game developed by Remedy Entertainment. Along with "War", Alan Wake also features two new songs, "Children of the Elder God" and "The Poet and The Muse", which were written specifically for the game, and are performed by Poets of the Fall as the in-game band Old Gods of Asgard. In June, the band released a video for "War" (despite it being only a promotional single on radio) which reenacts scenes from the game in live-action. It features Finnish actor Ilkka Villi as the game's protagonist of the same name (Villi also served as the model used for the creation of the Alan Wake character) and the band, except Saaresto. The band portrays in the video some of Alan Wake s in-game antagonists, lumberjacks possessed by an evil force named "the Dark Presence". The antagonists are collectively called "the Taken".

On 18 January, the band announced that their fourth album entitled Twilight Theater would be released on 17 March in Finland and that the first single from the album would be Dreaming Wide Awake (song)|Dreaming Wide Awake which debuted on Radio NRJ Suomi on 21 January and was released on 3 February as a limited-edition single. It reached No. 18 on the Finnish single-charts. http://twitter.com/PoetsOfTheFall/statuses/8037853033

Twilight Theater was released in Finland and on iTunes on 17 March, followed by Germany, Austria and Switzerland on 29 October. It went straight to the top of the Finnish album charts and was certified gold a week after release. retrieved on 18 October 2010

Alchemy Vol.1 (2011)

The band released a double-vinyl edition of their debut album Signs of Life on 19 January 2011, exactly six years after its original release. retrieved on 5 May 2011 A CD& DVD-compilation entitled Alchemy Vol.1 was released on 16 March 2011. It contains the band's whole videography as well as the favourite songs of the band-members and also features two new songs, "No End, No Beginning" and "Can You Hear Me". The latter was released digitally on 2 February 2011 and is featured in the remake of Remedy Entertainment's video game Death Rally . The video to the song was directed by Mikko Harma and premiered on The Voice on 18 March 2011. retrieved 18 March 2011

Temple of Thought (2012)

A fifth studio album Temple of Thought was released on March 21 2012 to conform to the release-cycle of two years set by the previous albums. Its name and album cover was revealed on band's official Facebook page on 25 January 2012.

The first single off the new album Cradled in Love was released for Finnish radio airplay on 24 January 2012. On 26 January it was released for digital download on band's official digistore. The band released the music video for the song "Cradled in Love" on 3 March 2012. "The Happy Song", an original song written for '' Alan Wake's American Nightmare , will also appear on the album. A 45 second snippet of the German radio edit of "Kamikaze Love" was uploaded by remote music on 24th February 2012. The single was released in Germany on 13 April 2012.

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album	Release	Charts	Certifications
2005	Signs of Life	19 January 2005 (Finland) retrieved on 26 February 2012 25 May 2005 (iTunes) retrieved on 30 September 2010 19 January 2011 (Limited Edition Vinyl – official webshop) retrieved on 15 December 2011	#1 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010	Platinum retrieved on 30 September 2010
2006	Carnival of Rust	12 April 2006 (Finland, iTunes) retrieved 26 February 2012 retrieved on 30 September 201012 September 2006 (Sweden) 6 October 2006 (Australia, Russia, Ukraine ) http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 6 October 2006 20 April 2007 (Germany)	#1 (Finland) retrieved on 30.September 2010	Platinum
2008	Revolution Roulette	26 March 2008 (Finland, iTunes) retrieved on 29 September 2010	#1 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010	Gold
2010	Twilight Theater	17 March 2010 (Finland, iTunes) www.discographyworld.com – retrieved on 9 April 2011 retrieved on 29 September 2010 29 October 2010 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) www.poetsofthefall.com – retrieved on 27 September 2010	#1 (Finland)	Gold
2012	Temple of Thought	retrieved 26 February 2012>21 March 2012 (Finland)20 July 2012 (Germany) retrieved on 23 April 2012	#3 (Finland) retrieved on 4 April 2012

Singles

Single	Release	Charts
Late Goodbye	30 June 2004 (Finland)	#14 (Finland)
Lift	9 September 2004 (Finland)21 January 2011 ( Rock Band Network\|RBN )* retrieved on 31 January 2011	#8 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010
Carnival of Rust "	22 March 2006 (Finland) http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 22 March 20061 December 2006 (Germany)	#2 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010
" Sorry Go 'Round " (Limited Edition)	16 August 2006 (Finland) http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news 16 August 2006	#7 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010
" Locking Up the Sun "	29 November 2006 (Finland) http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 29 November 2006	#3 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010
" The Ultimate Fling "	6 February 2008 (Finland) http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 9 January 2008	#2 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010
" Diamonds for Tears "	21 May 2008 (Finland) http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 6 May 2008	#13 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010
Dreaming Wide Awake (Poets of the Fall song)>Dreaming Wide Awake " (Limited Edition)	3 February 2010 (Finland)http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/	#18 (Finland) retrieved on 30 September 2010
"Can You Hear Me"	2 February 2011 (Download) retrieved on 13 March 2011
"Cradled in Love"	25 January 2012 (Download)	#16 (Finland) retrieved on 4 April 2012
"Kamikaze Love"	13 April 2012 (Germany) retrieved 26 February 2012

"*" = refers only to the song, not b-sides etc. featured on the single

B-sides

Year	Song	Included on	Ref
2004	"The Beautiful Ones"	Lift "	retrieved 21 April 2011
2011	"Can You Hear Me"	Alchemy Vol.1
2011	"No End, No Beginning"	Alchemy Vol.1

Compilation albums

Compilation	Medium	Release	Charts
Best of Poets of the Fall	CD	18 September 2009 (India) retrieved on 30 September 2010	—
Alchemy Vol.1	CD+DVD	16 March 2011 retrieved 9 April 2011	#9 (Finland) retrieved on 25 March 2011

Cover songs

Song	Original artist	Featured on	Ref
"Tobacco Road"	Dingo (band)>Dingo	Melkein vieraissa – Nimemme on Dingo	retrieved on 30 September 2010
" You Know My Name "	Chris Cornell	Livenä Vieraissa	retrieved on 30 September 2010

Videography

Year	Video	Director(s)
2004	"Late Goodbye"	Tuomas Harju retrieved on 5 May 2011
2004	"Lift"
2006	"Carnival of Rust"
2006	"Locking Up the Sun"
2008	"The Ultimate Fling"	Sami Mäkelä, Jussi Rautaniemi, Minni Wiitala
2008	"Diamonds For Tears"	Niina Miettinen
2009	"Carnival of Rust" (Special Edition HD Remaster)	Tuomas Harju
2010	"Dreaming Wide Awake"	Oskari Sipola
2010	"War"	Aleksi Koskinen, Akseli Tuomivaara
2011	"Can You Hear Me"	Mikko Harma 1:22 min – retrieved on 9 April 2011
2012	"Balance Slays the Demon"	Remedy EntertainmentAlan Wake's American Nightmare - Collected Videos - Music Video: Balance Slays the Demon
2012	"Cradled in Love"	Santeri Enstedt, Mikko Harma

Tours

Years	Tour	Countries	Concerts	Ref
2004–2005	Signs of Life -Tour	5 (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden)	62	retrieved on 24 December 2010
2006–2007	Carnival of Rust -Tour	8 (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden)	126	retrieved on 24 December 2010
2008–2009	Revolution Roulette -Tour	5 (Finland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, United States)	59	retrieved on 24 December 2010
2010	Twilight Theater -Tour	3 (Finland, Germany, Russia)	24	retrieved on 27 January 2011
2011	Alchemy -Tour	4 (Finland, Russia, Ukraine, India)	17

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Related work	Result	Ref
2004	Game Audio Network Guild Awards	Best Original Vocal Song – Pop	" Late Goodbye "	won	retrieved on 30 September 2010
	Yleisradio	Best Finnish Newcomer	Themselves	won	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 1 January 2005
		Best Finnish Song	Lift "	2nd place
		Best Finnish Song	" Late Goodbye "	7th place
2005	Musiikki & Media Events	Newcomer of '05	Themselves	won	http://www.poetsofthefall.com/news , 25 October 2005
	Radio City	Album of the Year	Signs of Life	7th place	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 14 November 2005
	The Voice	Top 106	Lift	10th place	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 11 December 2005
2006	NRJ Radio Awards	Best Finnish Breakthrough 2005	Themselves	won	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 19 January 2006
	Emma-gaala	Best Newcomer of the Year	Themselves	Won	written by Chris True for All Music Guide – retrieved on 30 September 2010
	Emma-gaala	Best Debut Album of the Year	Signs of Life	Won
	MTV Europe Music Awards	Best Finnish Act	Themselves	won	written for www.pop100.com on 3 November 2006, retrieved on 30 September 2010
	The Voice	Best Music Video 2006	""	won	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 31 December 2006
	The Voice	Best Music Video 2006		12th place
	YLE Audience Choice Award	Best Finnish Music Video of All Time	"Carnival of Rust"	won	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 30 December 2006
2007	NRJ Radio Awards	Best Finnish Band	Themselves	won	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 20 January 2007
		Best Nordic Band	Themselves	nom	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 16 December 2006
		Best Finnish Album	Carnival of Rust	nom
	Muuvi Awards	Bronze Muuvi Award	"Carnival of Rust"	won	http:/ / stobe.net/ #art stobe.net http:/ / stobe.net/ #art , 8 September 2010
	Muuvi Awards	Muuvi People's Choice Award	"Carnival of Rust"	won
	Emma Awards	Best Rock Album	Carnival of Rust	nom
	Helsingin Sanomat	Most Beloved Finnish Rock Song	" Late Goodbye "	nom	http:/ / www.poetsofthefall.com/ news , 28 June 2007
2011	Emma Awards	Best Music Video	"War"	nom	retrieved 6 March 2011

In other media

Song	Featured in	Type of media	Annotations
"Late Goodbye"	Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	Win , Playstation 2	Serves as the ending theme of the game and was written specifically for it. It is sung and whistled by multiple characters throughout the game.
"Lift"	3DMark 05 3D Mark05 credits	benchmarking software	The song is credited as "Lift Me Higher"
Locking up the Sun	Heroes	TV-show	Advertisements of the show in Finland
"Carnival of Rust"	Suden Vuosi (The Year of the Wolf) retrieved on 2 October 2010	movie
Themselves	Phoenix Effect – King See No Evil	music video
"War"	Alan Wake cite web	video game ( Xbox 360 , Win)	Ending theme of episode five ( The Clicker ). During the episode, it is played by Pat Maine on his radio show during a combat sequence in a warehouse. The song is also included on the in-game soundtrack.
Children of the Elder God			POTF are credited as the fictional in-game band Old Gods of Asgard. The song was written specifically for the game and can be heard during a combat sequence taking place during episode four ( The Truth ), as well as during the beginning of the second downloadable-content-episode The Writer . In the latter, the song's guitars and vocals are edited to sound off key. The original version of the song is included on the in-game soundtrack.
"The Poet and the Muse"			Also performed as Old Gods of Asgard, it serves as the ending theme to episode four ( The Truth ), and is included in-game, as well as on the Limited-Edition Soundtrack.
"Late Goodbye"			referenced in the manuscript page The Sudden Stop 2 at the beginning of episode two ( Taken ).
Themselves			The band can be seen briefly on the Harry Garrett Show which can be watched by turning on the television in Alan Wake's flat at the beginning of episode six ( Departure ).
"Can You Hear Me"	Death Rally	video game ( iPhone , iPad )	End credits theme
Grinder's Blues	Rochard retrieved 14 March 2011	PSN )
"Balance Slays the Demon"	'' Alan Wake's American Nightmare '' retrieved 19 December 2011	video game ( Xbox Live Arcade	With the band credited as Old Gods of Asgard, the song can be heard in Act 1, Part 3 in the drive-in's back office on a radio.
"The Happy Song"		video game ( Xbox Live Arcade	Plays whenever Mr. Scratch appears.

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