To me the solo backgrounds are one of the very best things about this kind of music.
3:09 - 3:26 - Awesome riffing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBppBGOwirQ
2:12 - 2:32 - Particularly the keyboard background...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKknp2RbA18
2:16 - 2:53 - Same thing here. One of the best solos ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVgTSWntH0w
2:33 - 3:40 - MY FUCKING GOD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjZpqgeiGFQ
And now listen to this... 2:40 - 3:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9Fynz2ld0
It's just not on the same level.
It was the overall creativity and epicness. Could RRF have so good solo backgrounds when the solos aren't that colourful either.
But what is better songwriting. Technicality, or atmosphere and enjoyability of the music?
There's great things about newer Bodom as well of course, for example Punch Me I Bleed is really different to the old but it's full of greatness (not on the album, but on live performance, if you try ignore the vocals and listen to the music and louder keys)
39:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdh6IWO8uGg
Something I think deserves a remake. So much epic feel and atmosphere in this song. It contains one of the best guitar solos too. Really there's some of the band's greatest songwriting in the songs LDB, AYDY and PMIB of this album, but it's so sad the keys were mixed down, just couldn't get the vibe on the studio record that you can hear live. More time should've been put on this record in studio and really to get the atmosphere through the keyboards. This song could've been a world-class single. Of course, I'm a sucker for melodic doom metal and this comes pretty close.
I thought so too at first, but when I heard the album, I realized it's really all about the package.
I think a solo should have some melodic idea to make you feel or think in a special way. Even just pure shredding is good if there's an interesting background.
Ugly solo starts off with a melodic idea from the FTR solo. But you can't really even compare them. FTR is as a song a continuous string of godly melodies all tied together fluently from start to finish, one of the greatest songs ever made.
Roope defends the new material saying fans always look at the previous album and say it's better than the new. I think he means to say when they have another album out is when fans start respecting RRF. I think he means the new material sounds grooveless and messy, un-fluent, until you've listened to it for enough time. But I don't think that's all there is to it in RRF, I sincerely think it's less catchy and feels like random notes glued together... sure there's catchy parts too but there's just less magic.