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Blood Sports (album)

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Blood Sports
Studio album by
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

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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

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

References

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  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Avenger – Blood Sports review". AllMusic. All Media Network. 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.