Damn, Ghost Reveries was completed before even signing on to Roadrunner, at least that's what I hear. Sellouts? No way.
From the two tracks I heard off GR, there is NO way they sold out. Ghost of Perdition is as brilliant as the finest offerings that we have heard from the band. The Grand Conjuration is a damn good track as well (I think people will like it more now knowing that there are indeed going to be many acoustic moments throughout the album.) TGC seems like a fitting track near the end, since it is a concept album. As a whole, the song works...I like it more than I did before after gearing GoP, knowing the two tracks are just SO different from one another.
Man, the wait for this album is truly going to be a painful one. Aye.