Blood Sports (album)

Blood Sports
Studio album by Avenger
Released	1984
Studio	Impulse Studios, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	31:33
Label	Neat
Producer	Martin Smith
Avenger chronology
Blood Sports (1984) Killer Elite (1985)Killer Elite1985

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	4/10[2]

Blood Sports is a 1984 album released by the British heavy metal band Avenger. It was reissued in 2002 by Frontline Records.^[3]

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. All Media Network. Retrieved 2016-11-27. 
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. ↑ "Avenger (Gbr) - Blood Sports". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-03-23.