Poets of the Fall
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Poets of the Fall is a Finnish rock band from Helsinki. The group consists of Marko Saaresto, Olli Tukiainen, Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen, Jani Snellman, Jaska Mäkinen, and Jari Salminen.
Poets of the Fall performing at Savoy-teatteri, Helsinki, Finland in December 2017
Poets of The Fall performing at Columbia Club in Berlin on 24 April 2008 – left to right: Tukiainen, Snellman, Saaresto, Mäkinen
Sam Lake
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Sami Antero Järvi, better known by his pen name Sam Lake, is a Finnish video game writer and director. He is the creative director at Remedy Entertainment, known for his writing on the popular Max Pay
Poets of the Fall
…had written multiple songs for Saaresto's previous band Fuss 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 video game…
Lake at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, 2014
Lake at E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in 2005
Lake won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Game Developers Choice Awards at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, 2025