Having won the NRJ Radio Awards’ “Best Finnish Breakthrough”, POTF released their third single, ” Carnival of Rust “, on 22 March 2006 in Finland and on 1 December 2006 in Germany. The single entered the Finnish charts at #2 and features a radio- and an album-edit as well as a live-recording of “Don’t Mess With Me”, the fourth track on Signs of Life , from the band’s performance at Rockperry Festival, Vaasa, Finland on 15 July 2005. On 30 March 2006, the band released the music video for “Carnival of Rust” which shows a gas-masked woman visiting an old carnival, and also references every song from the band’s second album of the same name . The video became hugely popular in Finland, winning two Muuvi Awards and the YLE Audience Choice Award as “Best Finnish Music Video of All Time”. It was also voted “Best Music Video 2006” by The Voice . In 2009, it was remastered by Elmeri Raitanen as his bachelor-thesis in visual and media arts at Lahti Institute of Design and reissued in HD .
released single ‘Carnival of Rust’
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