I just read a post in another topic, saying how if this new album is 70-75 minutes long like most of their albums are, that if every song was about the same length, they would be 8 minutes or so in length. It also said that if there was a 25-minute epic at the end, some songs would be much shorter, at 4-5 minutes like in Octavarium. Personally, if there was an epic, (hoping there is!) I'd want something more of the length of TMOLS or ITPOE pt. 2, so the "shorter" songs would still be a good length, 6-8 minutes or so, as I haven't been a fan of their shortest songs lately -- I don't want to say they feel weak neccessarily, but for me they lack the strength of many DT songs. Of course, I don't count WFS, Regression, TMW, or Vacant because they tie into the next song, and WIMH because it's part of SDOIT.