Dude it IS long to record and release an album, all the post-prod, label shit, stuff like that, very time consuming
Usually you can have a good 6 months between the first day in the studio and the release.
For instance, C-C went in studio for Evisceration plague on Sept 2008, and album released on Feb 3rd, thats about 6 months, more or less.
Now if Hypocrisy entered studio on Nov 2008, expect something like June or maybe July 2009, prolly longer than 6 months since there a gap of one month for the Pain's tour, so Peter is gonna begin post-prod only at the end of Feb.
so no, as far as Im concerned, nothing is wrong with the new album. Only thing that bugs me so far is the fact that Hypocrisy give so few information, we have no choice but to draw conclusions from online rumours/contacts.
Of course such thing can lead to unexpected wait and deceptions. Now should we expect the first trailer next week, or in 4 weeks?
But people, its hardly realistic to think we will get the album on April 2009.
May would be a miracle IMO