I'm italian and I read carefully that review. Sounds promising, of course there's a lot of ballads but it's inevitable, we're talking about 34 tracks. I like the idea of a musical, I do love the circus-oriented themes, I love JL playing different characters... don't know if I will love that Disney stuff..... Didn't quite catch what the reviewer means.....
So the "all metal" thing is related to one or a couple of tracks (no big issue, in my opinion). Most of tracks seems to have an epic a/o symphonic sound and that IS DEFINITELY good.