The expression power trio couldn´t be more suitable when it comes to Canadian band Triumph!Their first 3 albums as well as the successful 1984 album Thunder Seven are all classics, melodic rock with the big letter M. I never get tired of hearing songs like "Follow your heart", "It takes time" and "Lay it on the line".
The 1986 album "The sport of kings" didn´t sound like the typical Triumph record with hard rock riffs but leaned more towards AOR and never was as popular by the fans as their early stuff. This is truly an underrated album with lots of great songs like "Somebody´s out there", "Just one night" and "Tears in the rain".
As proof of their really high "low" level when it comes to songwriting, any hardrock band would die to have their names on albums like "Progressions of power", "Allied forces", "Never surrender" and "Surveillance". Wow!
Their last studio album from 1992 was recorded without guitarist/singer Rik Emmett and is also their weakest record, not so bad really because Triumph never release any crap but it´s not the same without Emmett.
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