Purchased on day of release. About 10 listens so far.
As expected, I love this album and it's the best they've done since The Outer Limits. It's as much of a concept album that you can get, complete with a grand finale track that touches on all the previous songs on the album. (Like DT have done in the past.) Of course, Dan Mongrain is the champion of the album, but I have to give props to Away for his drumming. To a lot of people he's a pretty basic drummer, but on this, he's stepped it up. Snake sounds 20 years younger too, and comes up with a few cool voices I've never heard out of him. I never thought I would hear an orchestra on a Voivod album, but it works.
All in all, I give this a 9 Piggys out of 10.
What I find funny is to listen to War and Pain, then The Wake, and you would swear it's not the same band. Not even the same genre. : )