Okay now let's have a page and a half of "seriously guys stop with the unwarranted hype" posts
Seriously though, imagine if the single, artwork and tracklist came out this very moment. You'd be satisfied now, but with two and a half months left to release date, that would be two and a half months of silence because there would be nothing more to build hype with except interviews, and only we read those. They can't possibly release new info every week when there's a three month gap between mastering the album and the release date!
Seriously, for most bands I listen to, it goes something like this: first they say "we'll probably have an album out this year", and it's often not the two-year schedule DT adheres to; then there's several months of total silence, then there's "we're in the studio and writing", then there's a couple months silence (maaaaaaybe a couple studio pics; certainly not Twitter feeds from 3/5 members and a producer, in-studio docus from which you can decipher a full MIDI line and lyrics!), then the artwork and the tracklist come, then one or more tracks from the album come a few weeks after.
I'd argue we're not in a bad situation though; firstly, it's not the entire fandom, just five or six people on one thread in the forum, and the wait for the DVD has worn us out anyway so we have a right to ramble about this every now and then
if nothing, the thread has become a half-parody of nerdy DT fans, but we parody ourselves because we have nothing better to do atm. It's not a COMPLETE farce.
/Milena retreats to Cave