Never Surrender (album)

Never Surrender
Studio album by Triumph
Released	January 28, 1983
Recorded	1982 at Metalworks Studios, Mississauga, ON
Genre	Hard rock, Heavy metal
Length	40:31
Label	RCA, TML
Producer	Triumph, David Thoener
Triumph chronology
Allied Forces (1981) Never Surrender (1983) Thunder Seven (1984)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

Never Surrender is the sixth studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1983. The album reached #26 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart assisted by the singles "All the Way", "A World of Fantasy" and "Never Surrender" which hit #2, #3 and #23, respectively, on the Mainstream Rock chart of 1983. A remastered CD was first released in 1985 on MCA Records (then again in 1995 on the band's own TRC label). A new remaster was released in November 2004 on the band's own label TML Entertainment.

Track listing

All songs by Rik Emmett / Michael Levine / Gil Moore except where otherwise noted.

1. "Too Much Thinking" – 5:39
2. "A World of Fantasy" (Emmett, Levine, Moore, Tammy Patrick) – 5:03
3. "A Minor Prelude" – :44
4. "All the Way" – 3:45
5. "Battle Cry" – 5:00
6. "Overture (Processional)" – 1:52
7. "Never Surrender" – 6:41
8. "When the Lights Go Down" – 5:08
9. "Writing on the Wall" – 3:39
10. "Epilogue (Resolution)" – 2:42

Personnel

• Rik Emmett – guitars, synthesizer, vocoder, lead vocals; dobro in "When The Lights Go Down"
• Gil Moore – drums, percussions, vocals
• Michael Levine – bass, organ, synthesizer, piano

Production

• Triumph & David Thoener – producer
• Ed Stone – engineer
• Hugh Cooper – assistant engineer
• Joe Owens – director
• Joe Brescio – mastering
• Brett Zilahi – remastering on 2004 re-issue
• Bob Ludwig – remastering on 1985 and 1995 issues
• Dean Motter – art direction, design

References

1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. Never Surrender at AllMusic. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
2. Review of Never Surrender on Rolling Stone