Without silence there can be no music.

Finnish rockers Poets of the Fall - singer Marko, guitarist Olli and keyboardist Captain - started out their musical adventure from scratch in 2003. Marko sold everything he had to invest in pursuing the love of his life, music, with his buddies Olli and Captain. He moved into his folks' basement, when he couldn't keep a place of his own any longer. The guys then built a little studio of their own in Captain's living room for the recording and producing sessions, and kept an office in Olli's beat up old car. The result of the recording sessions was a novel blend of pop, rock, metal and industrial sounds.

The band's first single was Late Goodbye, written for the acclaimed computer game Max Payne 2. Reaching millions of people through the game, the song went number one in Finland, and earned the guys international recognition and the first prize at the G.A.N.G. Awards in 2004.

Their debut album Signs of Life went straight to #1 in the Finnish album chart in January 2005. The next album Carnival of Rust, released in April 2006, did the same. Remarkably, the group's debut was still on the official Top 40 chart, and stayed there for over a year. To date, both albums have sold platinum in Finland. The seven singles released from the albums have dominated Finnish radios, with the song Carnival of Rust being one of the most played and requested songs of 2006.

In addition to their success on album and radio charts, the trio has received numerous awards and honors from their work and achievements. Among others, they won the Commercial Radio Stations' Newcomer of the Year 2005 award, the best Finnish breakthrough at the NRJ Radio Awards, and two awards at the annual Emma Award ceremony (the Finnish Grammys) - the best debut album and the best new act. Recently, the guys were awarded as the best Finnish act at the MTV Europe Music Awards, and the video Carnival of Rust was voted the best Finnish music video of all time in Musiikki-TV's competition and the best video of 2006 on The Voice.

In 2005 and 2006, Poets of the Fall played a hugely successful tour spanning Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Estonia and Russia. The tour will continue in 2007.