Progressions of Power by Triumph

Progressions of Power, the fourth album from Mississauga power trio Triumph, rolled out in 1980, and it plays to the strength that made their name: this was a band that lived for the stage. Rik Emmett handles guitar and shares the singing, Gil Moore pounds the drums and takes his turn at the mic, and Mike Levine holds down bass and keyboards, and between them they crank out hard rock with a heavy metal hide.

It got them to 32 on the Billboard 200, with "I Can Survive" scraping into the Hot 100 at 91. The odd one out was "I Live for the Weekend": it went nowhere back home in Canada but gave Triumph their only UK chart single, peaking at 59. The record kept resurfacing afterward, reissued on MCA in 1985 and TRC in 1995, then remastered in 2005 for the band's own TML Entertainment label.

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