Prevail is the ninth studio album by Canadian death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Kataklysm

Kataklysm

Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. They call their musical style "northern hyperblast" after an advertisement in M.E.A.T. magazine describing another band, Fear Factory, as "hyperblast". The term refers to the extremely fast blast beats that Kataklysm's drummer, Max Duhamel, fuses into the...

, 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".

Track listing

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

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.

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

Martyr (band)

Martyr is a Canadian death metal band from Trois-Rivières, Québec, founded in 1994 by brothers Daniel and François Mongrain.- History :Formed in 1994 by brothers Daniel and François Mongrain , along with Pier-Luc Lampron and François Richard , Martyr recorded a demo tape in September 1995...

for the performance, as he was home for the birth of his daughter.

Line-up

• Maurizio Iacono - Vocals
• Jean-François Dagenais - Guitar
• François Mongrain - Bass
• Max Duhamel - Drums