Triumph "Thunder Seven"

Thunder Seven is the seventh studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in November 1984. The second half of the album follows a concept based on various time-related themes.

The album was certified gold in the US by the RIAA, with sales of over 500,000 copies, on April 21, 2003, almost nineteen years after its initial release.

"Follow Your Heart" was the band's highest charting single of the time, reaching #88 in both the UK and the US. "Spellbound" was also released as a single, though it didn't prove as successful, only charting in Canada and barely scraping the top 100.

Thunder Seven was the last Triumph album that did not feature any outside writers. All prior Triumph albums, with the exception of 1977's Rock & Roll Machine, were written entirely by the band members.

The album cover was illustrated by artist Dean Motter and was a mechanized version of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci. The cover is a visible element of the album's concept, in which the band examines the actions and abnormalities of man at the turn of the 21st century.

Track listing

All tracks written by Gil Moore, Mike Levine and Rik Emmett, except where noted.

1. "Spellbound" – 5:11 (lead vocals: Gil Moore)
2. "Rock Out, Roll On" – 5:18 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
3. "Cool Down" – 4:51 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
4. "Follow Your Heart" – 3:27 (lead vocals: Gil Moore & Rik Emmett)
5. "Time Goes By" – 6:02 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
6. "Midsummer's Daydream" (Rik Emmett) – 1:41 (instrumental)
7. "Time Canon" – 1:31 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
8. "Killing Time" – 4:14 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett & Gil Moore)
9. "Stranger in a Strange Land" – 5:15 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
10. "Little Boy Blues" – 3:43 (instrumental)

Eddie Kramer – producer, mixer

Ed Stone – engineer

Hugh Cooper – mixing

Noel Golden – assistant engineer

Yoshiro Kuzumaki – mastering on original LP

Bob Ludwig – mastering on CD issues

Brett Zilahi – re-mastering on 2004 re-issue

Dean Motter – art direction, illustration, design

Triumph "Never Surrender (USA, MCAD-5543, MCA Records)"

Never Surrender is the sixth studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1982. The album reached #26 on the Billboard Albums chart assisted by the singles "All the Way", "A World of Fantasy" and "Never Surrender" which hit #2, #3 and #23, respectively, on the Billboard's Mainstream Top Rock Tracks chart in 1983. "All the Way" (the third of the three tracks to chart) was Triumph's highest charting song on the Top Rock Tracks chart, but did not sustain that level of popularity with Triumph fans as the song is not included on their 1985 live album Stages, the later Classics (a Greatest Hits album) or 2005's Livin' for the Weekend: The Anthology album.

In Canada, the album peaked at No. 29 on the RPM album chart (compared to No. 13 for the their previous album, Allied Forces) and none of the singles managed to reach the Top 100 of the RPM Singles chart, although they received some airplay at album-oriented rock stations.

A remastered CD was first released in 1985 on MCA Records (then again in 1995 on the band's own TRC label). A new remaster was released in November 2004 on the band's own label TML Entertainment.

Track listing

All songs by Rik Emmett / Michael Levine / Gil Moore except where otherwise noted.

1. "Too Much Thinking" – 5:39 (lead vocals: Gil Moore)
2. "A World of Fantasy" (Emmett, Levine, Moore, Tammy Patrick) – 5:03 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
3. "A Minor Prelude" – 0:44 (instrumental)
4. "All the Way" – 3:45 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
5. "Battle Cry" – 5:00 (lead vocals: Gil Moore)
6. "Overture (Processional)" – 1:52 (instrumental)
7. "Never Surrender" – 6:41 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
8. "When the Lights Go Down" – 5:08 (lead vocals: Gil Moore)
9. "Writing on the Wall" – 3:39 (lead vocals: Rik Emmett)
10. "Epilogue (Resolution)" – 2:42 (instrumental)

Triumph and David Thoener – producers

Ed Stone – engineer

Hugh Cooper – assistant engineer

Joe Owens – director

Joe Brescio – mastering

Brett Zilahi – remastering on 2004 re-issue

Bob Ludwig – remastering on 1985 and 1995 issues

Dean Motter – art direction, design

Triumph "Allied Forces"

Allied Forces is the fifth studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1981. The album reached #23 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart assisted by the singles "Magic Power" and "Fight the Good Fight," which hit #8 and #18, respectively, on the Mainstream Rock chart of 1981. A remastered CD was first released in 1985 on MCA, then again in 1995 on the band's TRC label, and for a third time in 2004 on the band's label TML Entertainment (formerly TRC Records). It is considered their signature record.

Tracklist:

1. Fool For Your Love
2. Magic Power
3. Air Raid
4. Allied Forces
5. Hot Time (In This City Tonight)
6. Fight The Good Fight
7. Ordinary Man
8. Petite Etude
9. Say Goodbye

Producer – David Thoener, Triumph 

Written-By – Gil Moore, Mike Levine, Rik Emmett

Originally released in 1981

Triumph "Progressions Of Power"

Progressions of Power is the fourth studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1980. The album reached number 32 on the Billboard 200[1] and the single "I Can Survive" hit number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980. The single "I Live for the Weekend", though not a success in the band's home country, gave them their only charting single in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 59. The album was re-released in 1985 on MCA Records, then on TRC Records in 1995, and remastered in 2005 and re-issued on the band's own label TML Entertainment (formerly known as TRC Records).

Triumph "Just A Game"

Just a Game is the third studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1979. The album contains one of Triumph's most popular songs on FM album-oriented radio, "Lay it on the Line", and the Top 40 hit "Hold On", which peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 33 in Canada.

The vinyl LP version of the album featured a sleeve that folded open to reveal a board game (though later pressings just contained a regular vinyl sleeve without this.) According to a Rockline interview, the board game was Rik's idea, but Mike was the one who actually designed it and decided to make it impossible to win.


The front cover of the album revealed a futuristic world where every symbol depicts a song featured on the album.