"Ex-Nightwish frontwoman finds the power metal path of least resistance ... For someone who's long been regarded 'controversial', there's very little in Anette Olzon's (ex-Nightwish) new venture that could be considered so. Together with guitarist Jani Liimatainen (ex-Sonata Arctica), on The Dark Element the pair channel the power and melodrama of their former bands while doing away with orchestral complexity in favour of effervescent synths"