Stylistic inconsistency

The anticipation that Nightwish finally something new comes was great disappointment at the first hearing the album unfortunately well.
Shone the previous albums, especially Oceanborn and Wishmaster, yet with unique melodies and the operatic voice Tarja, so these elements are missing here virtually completely, what is regrettable, that these were precisely the elements that made Nightwish unique.
The old albums ran with me up and down without any .. Skip often, as they managed to maintain a single mood arc over the whole plate away. Here, located next to the retracted voice of Tarja, the biggest drawback of the album - between the individual pieces come partly considerable breakthroughs in the mood ... Indian sounds, gefolt of oriental, with no link to each other, just to mention the largest fraction.
The songs appear in some cases significantly better when you hear them only as a single song and can not be run through the entire album.
What I find even that great is that Nightwish Elemnte brings that really do not fit to Nightwish: For example, "Wish I had an Angel" sounds partly by Metal meets Classic meets Techno or a long Indian speech passage in "Creek Mary's Blood" fits honest told not to Nightwish.
The orchestra, which actually led us to believe large, is in this album, unfortunately, too often. It is much better still involved as for example the classical support to Metallica's "S & M", but not in the same league of the classic elements of the recent Nightwish albums.
The voice Marcos, who still took care of Century Child as though unusual, but not bad variety, in my view, is more than a presence on this album, and comes nowhere near to Tarja's class.
Conclusion: the old albums are still ongoing, the new usually remains on the shelf. Hopefully the next album comes back better and less trimmed at mass appeal music.
Playing tips: Planet Hell, Romanticide and Kuolema Tekee Taiteihijan