An hour long album sounds just good enough to me. The longer ones tend to feel a bit padded out, and though I *love* epics, I really quite enjoyed the more concise, tighter song-writing on some of the songs on DT12. If it's like DT12 again, I'll be happy, which has some great songs in the 6-8 minute range, so if we get more like "The Bigger Picture" and "Surrender To Reason", I'm sure it'll be great!
As for the song titles, I really like "Untethered Angel", "Fall Into The Light", "At Wit's End" and "Pale Blue Dot" (as cliche as it is). The more peculiar ones are smack-dab in the middle with "Barstool Warrior", "Room 137" and "S2N", while "Paralyzed" and "Out Of Reach" sound like titles that should have been DT songs LONG ago but are for some reason just now happening! And the supposed bonus track "Viper King" sounds like it's still a working title, though I'm sure the lyrics will contextualize the title...maybe. And near as I can tell, none of the new song abbreviations seem to conflict with other songs - UA, FITL, BW, R137, S2N (lol), AWE, OOR, and PBD.
I hope PBD is the closing epic, a la "Illumination Theory", and that we get at least one solid ballad. It's also nice to see Magini *finally* contribute some lyrics, and more from Myung is always a good thing.
-Marc.