Honour & Blood is the fourth album by the British heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band Tank

Tank (band)

Tank is a British heavy metal band, formed in 1980 by Algy Ward, a former member of The Damned. The band is known as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement...

, released in 1984. By the time of this album Algy Ward

Algy Ward

Alasdair Mackie "Algy" Ward is an English rock and roll bass guitarist and singer.-Biography:He was first active as a member of the Australian punk band The Saints before joining British group The Damned and playing on Machine Gun Etiquette...

 was the last original member of the group remaining, as the Brabbs brothers had been replaced by Cliff Evans on guitar and Graeme Crallan

Graeme Crallan

Graeme Crallan was a British heavy metal drummer from Hartlepool, England. Also known as Crash Crallan, he formed White Spirit along with Janick Gers in 1975. They released their debut album in 1980. The album flopped and they split up in 1981. Crallan then joined up with Tank in 1984, and played...

 on drums (reuniting Crallan with his former bandmate in White Spirit

White spirit

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, Mick Tucker). The album follows much the same format as the band's previous album This Means War

This Means War

This Means War is the third album by British heavy metal band Tank, released in 1983. On this album, the line-up expanded to a four-piece, with the addition of second guitarist Mick Tucker, former member of the NWOBHM band White Spirit...

, 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

Chain of Fools (song)

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" is a cover of the 1967 hit by Aretha Franklin

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.

Track listing

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

1. "The War Drags Ever On" – 8:14
2. "When All Hell Freezes Over" – 5:56
3. "Honour and Blood" – 6:31
4. "Chain of Fools
   Chain of Fools (song)
   "Chain of Fools" is a song written by Don Covay. Aretha Franklin first released the song as a single in 1967 and subsequently it appeared on many of her albums. It reached number one on the U.S...
   
   " (Don Covay
   Don Covay
   Don Covay is an American R&B/rock and roll/soul music singer and songwriter most active in the 1950s and 1960s, who received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994...
   
   ) – 4:08
5. "W.M.L.A. (Wasting My Life Away)" – 5:17
6. "Too Tired to Wait for Love" (Algy Ward) – 4:37
7. "Kill" – 8:00

CD Bonus Track

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

8. "The Man Who Never Was" (from the Japanese CD version of Honour & Blood) – 4:30
   

Personnel

• Algy Ward
  Algy Ward
  Alasdair Mackie "Algy" Ward is an English rock and roll bass guitarist and singer.-Biography:He was first active as a member of the Australian punk band The Saints before joining British group The Damned and playing on Machine Gun Etiquette...
  
   – vocals, bass
• Cliff Evans – guitar
• Mick Tucker – guitar
• Graeme Crallan
  Graeme Crallan
  Graeme Crallan was a British heavy metal drummer from Hartlepool, England. Also known as Crash Crallan, he formed White Spirit along with Janick Gers in 1975. They released their debut album in 1980. The album flopped and they split up in 1981. Crallan then joined up with Tank in 1984, and played...
  
  – drums