Honour & Blood
Studio album by
Tank
ReleasedDecember 1984
Recorded1984
StudioSound Suite Studios, London, UK
GenreHeavy metal
Length42:43
LabelMusic for Nations
ProducerTank
Tank chronology
This Means War
(1983)		 Honour & Blood
(1984)		 Tank
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[2]

Honour & Blood is the fourth album by the English heavy metal band Tank, released in 1984. By the time of this album Algy Ward was the last original member of the group remaining, as the Brabbs brothers had been replaced by Cliff Evans on guitar and Graeme Crallan on drums (reuniting Crallan with his former bandmate in White Spirit, Mick Tucker). The album follows much the same format as the band's previous album This Means War, with seven songs, several quite lengthy, of melodic heavy metal primarily about the topic of war. However, the band explores some different subject matter on side two, as "W.M.L.A." and "Too Tired to Wait for Love", express frustration in love, while "Chain of Fools" is a cover of the 1967 hit by Aretha Franklin.[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Algy Ward and Mick Tucker except where noted.

Side one
  1. "The War Drags Ever On" – 8:14
  2. "When All Hell Freezes Over" – 5:56
  3. "Honour and Blood" – 6:31
Side two
  1. "Chain of Fools" (Don Covay) – 4:08
  2. "W.M.L.A. (Wasting My Life Away)" – 5:17
  3. "Too Tired to Wait for Love" (Algy Ward) – 4:37
  4. "Kill" – 8:00
CD edition bonus track

Various editions of the album have been available on CD with the following bonus track:

  1. "The Man Who Never Was" ("Echoes of a Distant Battle" B-side) – 4:30

Personnel

Tank
Production
  • Alvin Clark, Peter Rackham - engineers

References

  1. ↑ Heibutzki, Ralph. "Tank - Honour & Blood 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. 351. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  3. ↑ "Tank (Gbr) - Honour & Blood". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
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