Artist: Triumph
Title: “Live At US Festival”
Label: TML Entertainment
Release Date: 9/23/2003
Genre: Hard Rock
Rating: 4/5

Released in celebration of the band’s 20th anniversary of the legendary performance at the 1983 US Festival comes “Live At The US Festival”, and it’s a concert recording that finds Canada’s own Triumph as a band on top of their game and aiming straight for the future with excellence. The band was appearing on the bill during the Rock day of the Festival and was touring in support of their “Never Surrender” album but despite that being the release the guys would deliver a set loaded with numbers from their earlier albums as well. The CD captures the entire set of eight songs and it’s a stunning performance that can only be considered flawless in its overall sound and sonic delivery. The bonus ninth track is a live recording of “Follow Your Heart”, the blockbuster tune that would come from the “Never Surrender” follow up “Thunder Seven”. Triumph was an amazing band of three musicians and while their number matched Rush, they were a little more straight ahead Power Rock than their Progressive countrymen and were one of the core groups who the term “Arena Rock” was coined about. Fans of the band will attest to their abilities any day of the week and if you were lucky enough to have seen them live back in the day then you know exactly what I am talking about. They always sounded bigger than a three piece band and that was because of the shared vocals of Rik Emmett and Gil Moore and the very powerful and tasty Heavy Rock that they were always delivering. While the set list is rather short there are nothing but their most revered anthems in it and that makes this a perfect part of your ever growing CD library. There is a booklet included but its more of a foldout and there is very little to enjoy on that. There is nothing to speak of in the way of band or live performance photos.
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