Blood Sports (album)

Blood Sports
Studio album by
Avenger
Released1984
StudioImpulse Studios, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
GenreHeavy metal
Length31:33
LabelNeat
ProducerMartin Smith
Avenger chronology
Blood Sports
(1984) 		Killer Elite
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal4/10[2]
Hit Parader[3]

Blood Sports is a 1984 album released by the British heavy metal band Avenger. It was reissued in 2002 by Frontline Records.[4]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Enforcer" (Mick Moore, Ian Davison Swift) – 3:52
  2. "You'll Never Take Me (Alive)" (Les Cheetam, Moore, Swift, Gary Young) – 3:22
  3. "Matriarch" (Bob James, Ronnie Montrose, Jim Alcivar, Alan Fitzgerald, Denny Carmassi) – 3:51 (Montrose cover)
  4. "Warfare" (Moore, Swift, Young) – 5:26
Side two
  1. "On the Rocks" (Moore, Young, Brian Ross, Steve Bird) – 2:50
  2. "Rough Ride" (Moore, Swift) – 3:28
  3. "Victims of Force" (Moore, Swift) – 3:30
  4. "Death Race 2000" (Moore, Young) – 3:06
  5. "N.O.T.J." (Moore, Swift) – 5:32

Personnel

Avenger
  • Ian Davison Swift – lead vocals
  • Les Cheetham – guitars
  • Mick Moore – bass guitar
  • Gary Young – drums
Production
  • Martin Smith – producer, engineer

References

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Avenger – Blood Sports review". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  3. ^ Secher, Andy (May 1985). "Import Albums: Avenger – Blood Sports". Hit Parader. No. 248. Derby, Connecticut: Charlton Publications, Inc. p. 58. ISSN 0162-0266. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Avenger (Gbr) – Blood Sports". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
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