Not bad, not great ... not really Xandria

I have really taken time for this album, I first focused myself to listening to the songs, then I let them run times as Background, then as tutoring and ambience ... ultimately I listen into me and has concluded come: That is not a long term relationship.
This album contains the mediocre Nightwish style incredibly bombastic inflated Metal symphonies ... well and good, and I throw the band safe from not having the signs of time interpreted in such a way as the gap closers for the post-Tarja Nightwish era to have considered.
But that makes the individual tracks not know any better.
The Xandria-typical element that is missing RECOGNITION, namely 99% on throughout the album. Hardly grippy melodies that would herauszuerkennen from the inflated wall of sound, barely good vocal hooks, no connection between strong expressive lyrics and tastefully-perfectionist riffing ...
To me it has never happened in an album of this band that I do not hear a single after "oh that lands in any case in the playlist" - have discovered song (also in Nightwish is to me that never happens). Here is exactly the case - not one number stands out somehow.
Sure, the pieces are professionally arranged and sound purely objective point of view perfectly. But for a "real" Xandria I lack the grip, the honesty ... the soul.
No, even though production and arrangements are world class ... for me it remains a non-imaginary to end gift in an opulent, goldbesprühten packaging.
Great frame construct mediocre content.