Thunder Seven

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Thunder Seven
Studio album by Triumph
Released	November 10, 1984 (U.S.A) November 19, 1984 (UK)
Recorded	April 1984 – November 1984 at Metalworks Studios, Canada, Producers Workshop, Los Angeles Genre = Progressive rock, Hard rock
Length	40:51
Label	MCA
Producer	Eddie Kramer, Triumph
Professional reviews
All Music Guide Read
Triumph chronology
Never Surrender (1983) Thunder Seven (1984) Stages (1985)

Thunder Seven is a studio album by the Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1984. It was the band's seventh studio album.

The album was certified gold in the US by the RIAA, with sales of over 500,000 copies, on April 21, 2003, almost nineteen years after it's initial release.

"Follow Your Heart" was the band's highest charting single of the time, reaching #88 in both the UK and the US. Though another single was released under the form of "Spellbound" and "Cool Down", neither single proved as successful, only charting in Canada, and barely scraping the top 100.^[1]

Thunder Seven was the last Triumph album to not feature any outside writers, before this the last to feature an outside writer was Rock and Roll Machine in 1977.

[edit] Artwork

The album cover was illustrated by artist Dean Motter and was computerized version of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci. The cover is the largest part of the concept in the album, where the band studies the actions and abnormalities of man at the turn of the 21st century.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc (on CD) (side one of the vinyl and cassette)

1. "Spellbound" (Gil Moore, Mike Levine, Rik Emmett) – 5:11
2. "Rock Out, Roll On" (Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, Gil Moore) – 5:18
3. "Cool Down" (Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, Gil Moore) – 4:51
4. "Follow Your Heart (Gil Moore, Mike Levine, Rik Emmett) – 3:27

[edit] Disc (on CD) (side two of the vinyl and cassette)

1. "Time Goes By" (Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, Gil Moore) – 6:02
2. "Midsummer's Daydream" (Rik Emmett) – 1:41
3. "Time Canon" (Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, Gil Moore) – 1:31
4. "Killing Time" (Rik Emmett, Gil Moore, Mike Levine) – 4:14
5. "Stranger in a Strange Land" (Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, Gil Moore) – 5:15
6. "Little Boy Blues" (Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, Gil Moore) – 3:43

[edit] Singles

• "Follow Your Heart"/"Stranger In A Strange Land" - MCA 52540; released December 8, 1984 (US, Canada and UK)
• "Spellbound"/"Cool Down" - MCA-52520; released December 8, 1984 (Canada, UK and US)
• "Killing Time"/"Rock Out Roll On" - MCA 52635; Promo; December 15, 1984 (US and Canada)

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

[edit] Singles

[edit] Personnel

• Rik Emmett - vocals, guitars, bass guitar, music sequencer, Synthesizer, Clavinett, bass pedals
• Gil Moore - drums, percussion, vocals
• Michael Levine – bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, Organ, Clavinet, bass pedals

with

• Lou Pomanti – synthesizer, keyboards, programming, producer
• Al Rogers – background vocals
• Sandee Bathgate – background vocals
• Dave Dickson – background vocals
• Herb Moore – background vocals
• Andy Holland – background vocals

[edit] Production

• Eddie Kramer – producer, mixer
• Ed Stone – engineer
• Hugh Cooper – mixing
• Noel Golden – assistant engineer
• Yoshiro Kuzumaki – mastering on original LP
• Bob Ludwig – mastering on CD issues
• Brett Zilahi – re-mastering on 2004 re-issue
• Dean Motter – art direction, illustration, design

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Thunder Seven entry at The Official Triumph Homepage
• Thunder Seven Analysis discussion at The Official Triumph Homepage