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Dave Tkaczuk (keyboards, synthesizer, programming); Joel Wade, Joel Feeney, Paul Henderson (background vocals).
All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology.
Triumph attempted to rescue their ailing career with the creative about-face of 1987's Surveillance, an album that saw the veteran Canadian trio rejecting many of the commercial concessions adopted on recent efforts for a return to thundering hard rock with progressive rock flourishes emblematic of their early work. Yes, aggressive numbers like "Never Say Never" (clearly the album's statement of intent) and "Headed for Nowhere" (featuring a guest solo from Steve Morse) tended to be as clichéd as ever from a lyrical standpoint, but they easily made up for those failings with Rik Emmett's reborn passion for biting -- heck, positively carnivorous -- riffs that seemed to beg fans not to give up on Triumph just yet! Calculated experimentation was also back on the menu, whether the group was looking ahead via the anthemic, crowd-baiting directness of "Long Time Gone" or harking back to those '70 prog rock roots via the keyboard-intensive "Carry on the Flame," which may have harnessed all of the era's novel synthesizer technology but still sounded curiously reminiscent of Kansas. Unfortunately, the album's overall grade was still diminished by its remaining selection of filler material (including the AOR-flavored mainstream single "Running in the Night"), but Surveillance's stronger cuts at least gave Triumph fans some kind of solace before the end, which would arrive in 1988 with Emmett's departure from the group, making this the final album recorded by the original trio. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia
Additional personnel includes: Steve Morse (acoustic & electric guitars);
Recorded at The Metal Works, Phase One Studios, Toronto, Canada.
Engineers include: Ed Stone, Noel Golden, Hugh Cooper.
Triumph: Rik Emmett (vocals, guitar); Gil Moore (vocals, drums); Mike Levine (bass guitar).
Audio Remasterer: Mike Levine.
Triumph: Rik Emmett (vocals, guitar); Mike Levine (bass); Gil Moore (drums, background vocals).
Triumph Surveillance Songs Surveillance Music Review Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars)   Great CD
Triumph is my favorite canadian rock band and this shows why. Excellant vocals, excellant riffs, everything rocks.
Submitted by Brettem02 (St. Louis, MO) 
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Excellent
This was a really great CD. I don't listen to triumph a lot but, my dad told me about the CD, and I love it. I highly recommend it!!!!!!
Submitted by stephen.markling (Denver, CO)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Excellent send-off
I was very pleased with this CD by Triumph, their sound on here is great, unfortunately, this was the last album by the trio as Rik Emmett pursued a solo career. Never Say Never is a very good opener, good guitar riffs. Also liked the Gil Moore song, Rock You Down and my favorite song is the power ballad All Over Again. Another good song was Carry On the Flame and the environmental conscious All The Kings Horses. Long Time Gone is solid, this album has three outstanding musicians with Emmett, Moore and bassist/keyboardist Mike Levine. This album was underappreciated in the U.S.
Submitted by David (Middletown, NJ USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Greatttttttt album!!!!!!!
This album is one of my favorites fromthe 80's.This trio really rocks and the whole cd is awesome.You gotta have it!!!
Submitted by elchino5150 (Mount Dora,FL,USA)
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One would think that Canadian hard rock power trio Triumph would be in exceedingly high spirits after earning their fourth consecutive platinum album with 1981's career highlight, Allied Forces, but the residue of their most grueling bout of worldwide touring yet had actually left the band physically and creatively exhausted. That being said, the "rock & roll machine" had to keep on right on rolling, and with record company accountants already baying for another million-selling blockbuster, Triumph were soon ensconced back in the studio, trying to harness enough energy and inspiration to make sure that 1983's Never Surrender lived up to the lofty standards ...
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Triumph's once unstoppable "rock & roll machine" was seriously running out of gas by the release of 1984's Thunder Seven, which was named thus because it was, in fact, their seventh studio album in Canada (sixth worldwide). Where the previous year's Never Surrender had managed to disguise the band's dwindling stores of inspiration and desire beneath a semi-convincing imitation of glories past, Thunder Seven revealed a group that was largely going through the motions. Familiar-sounding fare like "Times Go By" and "Stranger in a Strange Land" merely recycled old templates whose potential for original ideas had already been stripped bare, while disposable heavy rock ...
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With 1981's suitably named Allied Forces -- their fourth worldwide release and fifth overall -- the three members of Triumph put aside their differences and collaborated more seamlessly than ever before, fittingly delivering what is arguably the best album of their long career. Like the previous year's particularly intense Progressions of Power, and with the possible exception of a rather forgettable new track, "Ordinary Man," the pedestrian mid-paced rockers that had sometimes derailed previous Triumph albums were conspicuously absent here, replaced by snaggletoothed heavy metal ...
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Triumph's first worldwide release, Rock & Roll Machine, had managed to capture the attention of many hard rock and heavy metal fans (as well as some borderline prog rock nerds), but still many more remained suspicious of the Canadian power trio's similarities to that country's established elder statesmen, Rush. Thankfully, 1979's Just a Game would see Triumph taking measures (albeit discreet ones) to establish a stronger personality of their own, by relinquishing some of those progressive tendencies in exchange for a generally bluesier, unquestionably rock-based songwriting approach that eventually defined them as slightly heavier ...
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Even during the best of times, Triumph's career was defined by a never-ending power struggle between its two lead singers and primary songwriters, Rik Emmett and Gil Moore. So after taking a back seat to guitarist Emmett on the previous year's impressive Just a Game album, drummer Moore fought back to secure a slim margin of victory on 1980's Progressions of Power. One of Triumph's most consistent albums, even though it lacked for major chart-topping hits, Progressions ...
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