Haha, root notes?!? Are you serious, or are you seriously tone deaf? Of course, some of it is based around the root because that makes musical sense in given sections. However, if you're seriously suggesting that I only play root notes, then I do not believe that you have even listened to anything Borknagar has done after Quintessence. If this is an attempt at telling people that bass is uninteresting as a musical ingredient (i.e. that you're not slagging me in particular but rather all bassists out there), then it just goes to show that the level of your musical expertise is on par with your social intelligence.