announced fourth album and song ‘War’ for Alan Wake

In mid-2009, after finishing the Revolution Roulette Tour , POTF announced they would be heading into the studio to record their fourth album, the genre of which they described as “cinematic rock”. On 9 December 2009, the band announced a song “War” from their fourth studio album would be featured in a psychological thriller video game Alan Wake developed by Remedy Entertainment. Along with “War”, Alan Wake also features two new songs, “Children of the Elder God” and “The Poet and The Muse”, which were written specifically for the game and performed by Poets of the Fall as the in-game band Old Gods of Asgard . In June 2010, the band released a video for “War” (despite it being only a promotional radio single) which reenacts scenes from the game in live-action. It features Finnish actor Ilkka Villi as the game’s protagonist of the same name (Villi also served as the model used for the creation of the Alan Wake character) and the band, except Saaresto. In the video, the band portrays some of Alan Wake ‘ s in-game antagonists, lumberjacks possessed by an evil force named “the Dark Presence”, collectively called “the Taken”.