I'd like more lead-orientation instead of technical riffing. It doesn't have to be ice cream melodies, I'd love heavy riffing that's moody and "melodic". There's great elements in this music and it's all about the proper way of using them. On top of the talent there needs to be drive, passion, anger and atmosphere and stuff.
The melodies are somehow eerily depressing, even the beautiful Homeland melody. Maybe it's somekind of nostalgia from the times I listened to it. It's a long time since I listened to them. Some great stuff in Talking of the Trees (whole song) and Translucent Image (parts of the song and the Intro). Too inexperienced otherwise. Talking of the Trees is too far from Bodom's style to be used.
The chorus guitar of Translucent Image was used in Sinergy's Beware the Heavens, but I think they should use this fast keyboard section in a song on the new COB album, as it's one of the better ideas they ever had and would surely spice up an aggressive COB track:
1:30 - 1:50
Use it in a transition between intro and first verse, and in the transition between 1st chorus and the following verse and maybe third time later in the song. Just another crazy Joonas-idea if you want to make another headbanger hit song... we all want COB to make an album that's powerfully catchy world-class death metal that throws in genious keyboard ideas.
I like the way the third one descends to this nice guitar solo (from 3:00 on). This is also nice example of how a melodic idea on a solo makes it more delicious, altough this feels so out of context in the song but that's due to the inexperience.
Talking of the Trees is the best Inearthed track and it was remade for Something Wild but it didn't turn out well or didn't fit the style so it wasn't included. So technically SW was intended to have 8 songs I guess. Maybe if the record isn't destroyed they'll one day let it out online.
