Yeah - by "soon," we really mean "in the next two months." It's the next phase, though, and it usually happens a couple of months before the album's release, so it's approaching due.
Incidentally, weird little story, but I never got to tell it at the time, and now its so far into the past that it's no longer an issue - I got to see the art and the title of the last album a couple of weeks in advance. You know when you make a sort of "serendipitous" discovery... inasmuch as, you convince yourself that you're not looking to do X thing, so it's not your fault if it happens, but you go in knowing there's a definite chance?
I dug around through Hugh Syme's portfolios in advance of the last album, telling myself that I was just having a look at his art to get an idea of the kinda stuff he might be doing. Might've stumbled across a big moon-encrusted piece titled "DREAM THEATER - Black Clouds & Silver Linings" a couple of weeks before they'd announced even the title.
Reported it to Weymolith off of MP.com like a good little fan, 'cause frankly I didn't want to cause Mike Portnoy another headache. He's big on reveals, and I surely wouldn't be the last enterprising little sneak to stumble across it. 'Course, I've got a hunch they're possibly not using Hugh Syme again 'cause that seemed to be Mike Portnoy's little contact - but yeah, just quite exciting to think that there's a chance that, somewhere, the artwork to ADToE is kicking about, all pristine and new.