- Triumph: Rock and Roll Machine (Music from the Documentary) · 1976
- Classics · 1976
- Allied Forces · 1976
- Rock & Roll Machine · 1977
- The Sport of Kings · 1985
- Just a Game · 1976
- Triumph: Rock and Roll Machine (Music from the Documentary) · 1976
- Classics · 1976
- Classics · 1979
- Classics · 1981
- Surveillance · 1987
- Classics · 1976
- Never Surrender · 1976
Essential Albums
- Considered by fans and critics alike to be the band’s best recording, Triumph’s fifth album, Allied Forces, has a subtle tension running throughout. Where previous works found singing drummer Gil Moore and guitarist/vocalist Rik Emmett jockeying for alpha frontman status, here they exercised a healthier competition within their songwriting collaborations. As a result, “Fool for Your Love” hits the ground running with the muscle of Grand Funk Railroad and the vocal precision of Boston. The mellowed acoustic guitar picking and reedy Moog notes that introduce the following “Magic Power” hark back to the band’s early Emerson, Lake & Palmer influence. The song soon unfolds and rocks out like a tougher-sounding Journey. But it’s the title track that brings the album to its head. Though Triumph was reticent to be pigeonholed as a metal act, “Allied Force” exemplifies the marriage of late-'70s heavy metal and early-'80s AOR production. The cool sound effects produced by bassist Mike Levine in “Air Raid,” plus the classical guitar interlude “Petite Etude,” helped flesh out an already-strong album.
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Music Videos
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Artist Playlists
- A hit-making, '70s-spawned power trio from Toronto that isn't Rush.
Live Albums
- 1985
Compilations
About Triumph
Comprising Rik Emmett, Gil Moore and Mike Levine, Canadian power trio, Triumph, shared many similarities to Rush aside from geographical location. All three members were highly accomplished musicians who experimented with many facets of high-tech melodic rock, yet they followed a rockier road than their fellow countrymen. Characterized by Emmett’s high-pitched vocals and intricate guitar work, rife with keyboard fills and boasting a thunderous rhythm section, they made their breakthrough with 1979’s JUST A GAME, their third album. The subsequent ALLIED FORCES and NEVER SURRENDER both attained gold status in the States in the early-'80s. As the band was winding down in 1986, THE SPORT OF KINGS saw the band move in a blatantly commercial direction as the outfit scored the unlikely top 40 hit "Somebody's Out There."
- ORIGIN
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- FORMED
- 1975
- GENRE
- Rock