For context, this song is part of a Remedy game (Finnish game developer behind Max Payne 1&2, Control, Quantum Break) Alan Wake, a paranormal thriller and action game, where Alan, a fiction writer, loses his wife to some dark force or entity in the woods and starts searching for his wife and trying to solve the mystery. The man in the video is Finnish actor and former theater director Ilkka Villi, who gave his face and movements, but not the voice, to Alan Wake, the main character that the player controls. The obstacles Alan faces in the game are people possessed by the dark force and large objects, even cars, thrown at him by the force. Alan can weaken the force and defeat the foes using light, a flashlight, flare gun, etc, using flashlight to weaken a foe before he can finish it with a pistol, or using a flare for instant elimination. There's quite a lot of storytelling and characters inspired by the works of Stephen King and David Lynch's TV show Twin Peaks and the story is told in episodic format, similat to a TV show, with the next part quickly recapping what happened in the previous episode. Poets of the Fall has done several songs to the game, even posing as Old Gods of Ascard, an traditional style Heavy Metal band. Alan meets 2 members of the band, two old rockers, in the mental asylum he is locked in at 8ne part of the game and it seems the same forces that took Alan's wife, have also inspired the band's music. The force can both inspire imagination and make works of imagination manifeat in the real world. Think of something like Solaris meets Stephen King's IT. Later in the game, Alan and his manager even use the band's stage equipment, pyrotechnics and stage lights to fight a full scale attack of the dark force, with an "Old Gods of Asgard" (Poets of the Fall) song playing on the sound system. In a DLC to Remedy game Control, the world of the game is tied to Alan Wake and "Old Gods of Asgard" provide more music, while Poets of the Fall also appears on the OST with their own name. Markus Kaarlonen, AKA Captain, the Music Producer, keyboard player and Co-songwriter of the band, used to be in the computer demo scene, making MOD music (computer music files that have both the note data and instrument samples in the same file) and Remedy was also started by people in the scene. Markus was working for Remedy's then sister company Futuremark, which was making 3D tech demo / performance testing software, which lead to Poets of the Fall making music for them, with Markus producing, which eventually lead to Markus joining the band. When Sami Järvi, AKA Sam Lake (järvi = a lake), a friend of Markus and main story writer of Remedy games and also, the original face of Max Payne from the first game, wanted Poets of the Fall to turn his poem "A Late Goodbye" into a theme song for Max Payne 2, Poets became a constant collaborator to Remedy game studio.
So many great songs from them in the game Alan Wake, that's how i found out about them anyways. I remember liking this, balance slays the demon and children of the elder god.
For context, this song is part of a Remedy game (Finnish game developer behind Max Payne 1&2, Control, Quantum Break) Alan Wake, a paranormal thriller and action game, where Alan, a fiction writer, loses his wife to some dark force or entity in the woods and starts searching for his wife and trying to solve the mystery. The man in the video is Finnish actor and former theater director Ilkka Villi, who gave his face and movements, but not the voice, to Alan Wake, the main character that the player controls.
The obstacles Alan faces in the game are people possessed by the dark force and large objects, even cars, thrown at him by the force. Alan can weaken the force and defeat the foes using light, a flashlight, flare gun, etc, using flashlight to weaken a foe before he can finish it with a pistol, or using a flare for instant elimination.
There's quite a lot of storytelling and characters inspired by the works of Stephen King and David Lynch's TV show Twin Peaks and the story is told in episodic format, similat to a TV show, with the next part quickly recapping what happened in the previous episode.
Poets of the Fall has done several songs to the game, even posing as Old Gods of Ascard, an traditional style Heavy Metal band. Alan meets 2 members of the band, two old rockers, in the mental asylum he is locked in at 8ne part of the game and it seems the same forces that took Alan's wife, have also inspired the band's music. The force can both inspire imagination and make works of imagination manifeat in the real world. Think of something like Solaris meets Stephen King's IT.
Later in the game, Alan and his manager even use the band's stage equipment, pyrotechnics and stage lights to fight a full scale attack of the dark force, with an "Old Gods of Asgard" (Poets of the Fall) song playing on the sound system.
In a DLC to Remedy game Control, the world of the game is tied to Alan Wake and "Old Gods of Asgard" provide more music, while Poets of the Fall also appears on the OST with their own name.
Markus Kaarlonen, AKA Captain, the Music Producer, keyboard player and Co-songwriter of the band, used to be in the computer demo scene, making MOD music (computer music files that have both the note data and instrument samples in the same file) and Remedy was also started by people in the scene. Markus was working for Remedy's then sister company Futuremark, which was making 3D tech demo / performance testing software, which lead to Poets of the Fall making music for them, with Markus producing, which eventually lead to Markus joining the band. When Sami Järvi, AKA Sam Lake (järvi = a lake), a friend of Markus and main story writer of Remedy games and also, the original face of Max Payne from the first game, wanted Poets of the Fall to turn his poem "A Late Goodbye" into a theme song for Max Payne 2, Poets became a constant collaborator to Remedy game studio.
Hey, thanks for actually making my day
This song appeared in the Alan Wake's game, you should play this videogames to understand this music video. Nice reaction, greets from Mexico \m/
POTF "Where do we draw the line" 🤗... I'm ready to bet you will like it, great lyrics too which is trademark in most POTF songs anyway 🙂
...and for followup song, "Illusion and Dream" 🤗
So many great songs from them in the game Alan Wake, that's how i found out about them anyways. I remember liking this, balance slays the demon and children of the elder god.
its my favorite too I knew the band from this song (i hope my english is correct)
To understand the Song Play Alan wake xD
Thanks For Reacting to The Poets Again, I Suggest Temple of Thought Unplugged Studio Version Next.
Crystal Ball - Eye To Eye featuring Noora Louhimo please.
Please react to Japanese crazy rock band LADYBABY - Nippon Manju