Oh yes, ETID, how could I forget that...
Everything sounded good and seemed different with the artwork theme. It really makes an impact on how we perceive music.
I think Janne should play the beginning of his ETID solo the emotional way like on the album. I always thought the weird thing they do live with that solo part is the last place for an unnecessary improvisation or humorous twist, which it is really. It's the couple of notes on the keyboard solo, which are played as a long note on the album with a minimal carefully thought-out pitch bend, but live it's done tapping the key for short notes, I think they do it like this always when live. The long notes would give it a more emotional, sad and balladic feel.
Otherwise it's great they use a prominent cold keyboard atmosphere for the new album. Other keyboard-related stuff I realized was the Downfall orchestral hits were louder than ever before, and the strings on HCDR seemed to be straight out of the new album sound patches, a cold sound... Some background keys were more audible on the song HoB, which was interesting.
