Their first album was released last January and is still in the Top 40 album chart. Even when the huge success of the debut album doesn’t show any kind of fading, the band is releasing their new album already in the beginning of April. Like the first album, the new one, called Carnival Of Rust, is filled with melodic rock songs which are like made for radio play.

– We were just so enthusiastic about making new music, explains Marko Saaresto when it comes to the rapid releasing of the new album.

Signs Of Life, the first album of Poets Of The Fall, a band from Helsinki, has sold almost 30 000 pieces. But to whom? Noone seems to know. Are the buyers of the album those listeners of Radio City that don’t like heavy? Or the rock lovers who fell in love with the energetic on-stage performances during some of the 70 gigs last year? Or perhaps those, who voted the singer Mark to be "Mr. Pop" in the last years voting of Stara.fi?

Whatever the truth, the thing that triggered off the popularity of the band was the song Late Goodbye, which the scriptwriter of the producing company Remedy, Sami Jarvi, chose as the song of the credits of Max Payne 2. The ones addicted to computer games probably aren’t the main target group for them, but cause of the game, the band got loads of publicity.

Late Goodbye, released in fall 2004 was played a lot on radios and people seemed to like the song. – At that point we had loads of discussions with big record companies but they had already much stuff going on and they couldn’t sign us. So marketing was pretty much handled by the song playing on radio and me and Ollie running around doing as much interviews as we could. Finally someone told us that we are a band about which a huge fuss is made already before the album is out. We got the word out. Still it was really unbelievable that the album went to number one in the charts. I still don’t quite get it, Mark wonders.

As we are writing this, Signs Of Life has spent 47 weeks in the Finnish Top 40 chart. From other albums on the list only the album of PMMP has been there longer. Both bands also got some awards in the yearly Emma-gala where people in the Finnish music business pat each other on the back.

Already four popular singles have been released from Signs Of Life and the band could have milked the album even more if they would have wanted to. Instead, Ollie, Mark and Captain have recorded the second album which will be out already on early April. Musicwise, the Poets are driving pretty close to the white line but the speed is high.

In Carnival of Rust you will find the Poets Of The Fall who have gotten rid of their teething problems. Music rocking in the spirit of REM, Pearl Jam and Live, for example, is sentimental and manly, all in one package, but made much more sure-handedly than in the first album.

The cracking title song will be released as the first single from the new album. If you have wondered why the 35-year old Mark has been running around with a cap on his head all the time, it has nothing to do with losing hair, he just lost his eyebrows when shooting the new video.

- Our old songs are playing so well on the radio that we are a bit nervous if they will start to play the new single. Stay is on air a lot at the moment and it’s advertised a lot as "new music from Poets Of The Fall". But it’s from our first album, which has been out since over a year. So we are a bit anxious if they are going to find this new album.

- It might have been wise to wait with the album till fall but there is nothing to be done anymore now that the gigs and all have been sold and so on. We really didn’t think that the first album would stay so popular this long. And now that the second album is ready, you can’t sit on it, you’ve got to get it out to the stores as soon as possible.

- We just had this great urge to start making new music and so we did. We didn’t think in October that the songs from the first album could still be playing.