Blood, Sweat and No Tears
| Blood, Sweat, and No Tears | ||||
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| Released | June 26, 1989 | |||
| Studio | Normandy Sound (Warren, Rhode Island) | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk | |||
| Length | 28:26 | |||
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| Producer | Sick of It All | |||
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Blood, Sweat, and No Tears is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Sick of It All, released on June 26, 1989, through the Relativity Records imprint label In-Effect Records. The band recorded and mixed the album in three days with engineer Tom Soares at Normandy Sound in Warren, Rhode Island. Future Sick of It All bassist Craig Setari assisted during recording and contributed to the lyrics of "Bullshit Justice" and "The Blood and the Sweat".
Sick of It All promoted Blood, Sweat, and No Tears through tours of the United States with Bad Brains, Leeway, D.R.I. and Agnostic Front, and a music video for "Injustice System". A surprise success, Blood, Sweat, and No Tears sold over 100,000 copies and is retrospectively regarded as a defining New York hardcore album, although vocalist Lou Koller considers it to be unlistenable due to the quality of the band's performances. After initially planning to re-record the album in its entirety, Sick of It All re-recorded a number of its songs for their tenth album XXV Nonstop (2011).