''Twilight Theater'' is the fourth studio album by the

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Poets of the Fall Poets of the Fall (POTF) is a Finnish rock band from Helsinki. The group consists of Marko Saaresto (lead vocals), Olli Tukiainen (lead guitar), Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen (keyboards, production), Jani Snellman (bass), Jaska Mäkinen (rhythm gu ...

. It was released in

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on 17 March 2010Twilight Theater out now
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on 29 October. The record went gold in its first week after jumping to #1 on the Finnish album charts.Poets of the Fall certification data according to the Finnish IFPI
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and released as part of

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Collector's Edition soundtrack on 2 March 2012. It was released as a single on February, 16th.

Track listing

Release history

Singles

Trivia

*The track ''War'' is featured in the

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*The track ''15 Minute Flame'' was partly inspired by the movie

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*The album is the first the band considers to feature "cinematic rock" instead of "alternative rock" on the previous three albums *The

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on the cover is based on a photo showing the band's vocalist Marko Saaresto *The ticket on the album-cover contains the original release date of the album as well as a sequence of numbers that translates into

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References

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