It's passed a long time from the last band's news about the activities inside the studio for next album, much what were the guidelines that the group has used and even less are unbalanced to utter a few words about what we should expect. But besides all this even more important for fans the revelation of a release date cause we don't await time to enjoy relaxing the masterpiece.
Unfortunately for us it is still time to wait impatiently, Mike assured everyone when he said: "We have a mountain of material" this proves that we are dealing with something that has long had been working for the previous album and that possibly don't have inserted in LPUnderground, we can have the pleasure of being able to hear on this occasion.
Time back, more precisely to the ATS era, Chester in an interview said that he would like to release more material each year; Honestly I love this intention he had and / or they have had and that's what they tried to do (instead of every year, every two years) but that is a reasonable and acceptable time.
Now according to this theory, the new album should be out this year and given that we are coming in the summer, it would be likely to be released in the second half of this year and with the last update it seems that at the time didn't have the hitch on the workmanship. I personally believe to be confident on the next album, provided always that THP has been a very good success, but it is pleasing to see the work they execute, especially the breaks.
So in conclusion: unfortunately there is no official date yet, but always be ready that, in a not too distant future, we will have some good news!
I hope these few words were enough to make you to be careful about who gives false hope (especially those person who say that such a date will be released album)