Prevail (album)

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Prevail
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ReleasedMay 23, 2008 (2008-05-23)
Genre Death metal, melodic death metal
Length44:10
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Jean-François Dagenais
Kataklysm chronology
In the Arms of Devastation
(2006)
Prevail
(2008)
Heaven's Venom
(2010)
Singles from Prevail
  1. "Taking the World by Storm"
    Released: May 30, 2008
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Prevail is the ninth studio album by Canadian death metal band Kataklysm, released May 23, 2008 in Europe and June 6, 2008 in North America. Music videos were filmed for the tracks "Taking The World By Storm" and "Blood in Heaven".

Canadians citizens of Canada

Canadians are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, several of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Canadian.

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion, nature, philosophy, science fiction, and politics.

Kataklysm heavy metal band from Canada

Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. They have released thirteen studio albums, one EP and two DVDs as of 2018. Kataklysm won their first Juno Award for best album of the year in the "heavy metal" category for their 2015 album Of Ghosts & Gods.The band's albums have charted throughout the world, including the Billboard Top 100 in the United States.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Prevail"3:54
2."Taking the World by Storm"3:59
3."The Chains of Power"3:19
4."As Death Lingers"3:30
5."Blood in Heaven"5:15
6."To the Throne of Sorrow"4:49
7."Breathe to Dominate"3:59
8."Tear Down the Kingdom"4:21
9."The Vultures Are Watching"5:57
10."The Last Effort (Renaissance II)"5:01
Total length:44:10

A bonus DVD was included containing the "Taking the World by Storm" video, a photo gallery and a live performance in December 2007 at DeepRockDrive studios in Las Vegas. The songs were voted for by fans watching the performance online.

No.TitleLength
1."Like Angels Weeping (The Dark)" 
2."As I Slither" 
3."In Shadows & Dust" 
4."Crippled and Broken" 
5."The Ambassador of Pain" 
6."Let Them Burn" 
7."Manipulator of Souls" 
8."The Resurrected" 
9."Face The Face of War" 
10."Where The Enemy Sleeps" 
11."The Road To Devastation" 

Bass player Stéphane Barbe was replaced by François Mongrain from the band Martyr for the performance, as he was home for the birth of his daughter.

Martyr is a Canadian death metal band from Trois-Rivières, Québec. Their musical style consist of mostly progressive use of melodics and variations of thrash and death metal influences.

Personnel

Kataklysm
Jean-François Dagenais Canadian musician

Jean-François Dagenais is an American Juno Award winning record producer, mix engineer, guitarist and songwriter specializing in the rock and metal genres. Born and raised in Canada J-F is now a naturalized citizen of the United States living in Dallas, Texas. He is best known as guitarist for the metal band Kataklysm and for producing and mixing many heavy metal albums and its subgenres.

Guest musicians
Cannibal Corpse American death metal band

Cannibal Corpse is a death metal band from Buffalo, New York, now based in Tampa, Florida. Formed in December 1988, the band has released fourteen studio albums, two box sets, four video albums, and two live albums. The band has had little radio or television exposure throughout its career, although a cult following began to build after the release of the 1991 album Butchered at Birth and 1992 album Tomb of the Mutilated. As of 2015, they achieved worldwide sales of two million units for combined sales of all their albums, making them the top-selling death metal band of all time.

Overkill (band) American thrash metal band

Overkill is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. They have gone through many line-up changes, leaving bassist D. D. Verni and lead vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth as the only constant members. In addition to Verni and Ellsworth, Overkill's current lineup includes Dave Linsk on lead guitar, Derek Tailer on rhythm guitar and Jason Bittner on drums. Along with Nuclear Assault and Anthrax, whose one-time lead guitarist Dan Spitz was also an early member of Overkill, the band is one of the most successful East Coast thrash metal bands, and they are often called "the Motörhead of thrash metal". The band has a notable mascot named "Chaly", a skeletal bat with a skull-like face, horns, bony wings and green eyes, who has appeared on most of their album covers.

Jason Suecof is an American record producer, mixer, guitarist and songwriter.

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References

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  2. Rivadavia, Eduardo. Prevail at AllMusic