The songs of the album were played more and more seldom live leading up the departure of vocalist Tarja Turunen in October 2005, and no songs from the album were performed with vocalists Anette Olzon or Floor Jansen until the Decades: World Tour in 2018. ДЄs of December 2009, Angels Fall First has sold more than 36,000 copies in Finland alone. The original pressing featured Holopainen's home contact address, an accident from reprinting the demo sleeve for the album. I used to be a bit embarrassed but now I can feel proud and nostalgic about those songs. But then Spinefarm heard it and thought it was perfect, so they put it out as it was with no remixing or anything. The funny thing about Angels Fall First is that it was only supposed to be a demo to send out to record labels. But we were too far ambitious at that time for it to remain simply acoustic and making music with just acoustic guitar, keyboards and female voice, was just a bit boring, and we naturally started heading in a heavier direction. We were at my summer cabin, a bunch of friends camping out, barbecuing, singing songs, and then it just hit me that I wanted to start a band. It came about in August 1996, around a campfire. In a 2008 interview with the British magazine Kerrang!, Tuomas Holopainen remembered:

Tuomas Holopainen wrote the music for the album during his time in the Finnish Army.

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