Triumph

If you were to ask most Triumph fans living in the pre-internet era to name the Canadian power trio's debut album, they'd probably tell you it was 1978's Rock & Roll Machine. They'd be wrong ...

Rush's Alex Lifeson says he "didn’t hesitate for a second" when Rick Emmett asked him to sit in.

Like most bands dealing with strong personalities, pressures of success and egos, Canadian power trio Triumph didn't always put across the most united front.

Rik Emmett is joined by his former Triumph bandmates for “Grand Parade,” their first new music together since 1987.

Taken at face value, 1986's The Sport of Kings seemed to have the makings of a classic Triumph album.

Ask the average classic rock fan about Canadian rockers Triumph and their opinions tend to vary drastically.

This will be the first new music from the original lineup since 1987's 'Surveillance.'

The notion may seem a tad overdramatic in retrospect, but, in late March 1979, when Canadian hard rockers Triumph unleashed 'Just a Game' – their second or third album, depending on which side of the 49th Parallel you were standing in – their career longevity was anything but…

In November 1984, Triumph released their seventh album, the aptly named ‘Thunder Seven,’ during what turned out to be a pivotal time in the Canadian power trio’s career.

It couldn't have been easy being Triumph. The virtuosic Canadian hard rock power trio spent their entire career in the shadow of virtuosic Canadian hard rock power trio Rush. They broke up in 1993, but reunited on June 7, 2008. That historic concert will be released as a CD / DVD set, called &a…