Reading this thread, I agree with the fact that, as many have said, DT should take the direction they took after SDOIT, with a heavier record.
However I wouldn't mind to hear a dark, gloomy album like Awake for example.
More songs like The Mirror, Lie, Lifting Shadows, Scarred, Learning to Live, Repentance, The Great Debate.. and more elements from JM and MM in the songwriting process.
Speaking about JR and JP:
-I think that those massive orchestral arrangements should be blended with the sound of an Awake-type record (which is something DT actually did in ADTOE, mixing symphonic elements with an I&W sound).
-Personally I would be interested hearing JP with an 8 string guitar.
I predict an early 2018 release or if they end touring in August and enter in the studio immediately after, it could be possible a late 2017 release (but I doubt it).