Fire of Love is the debut album of the American rock band the Gun Club, released in 1981 on Ruby Records.

The album is considered groundbreaking in being the first of its kind to combine the hard, stripped-down sound of punk rock with American roots music.

[11] In turn, this innovation helped to create the punk blues style as well as inspiring countless garage rock musicians.

He says the band "extracts from the blues those elements (anger, frustration, vivid imagery) most resonant with the disaffections of a modern young white [man].

Green concludes, "[t]he Gun Club relies on no strict formulas yet it is undeniably the blues that is being transmuted into a medium for Pierce's dark visions and neuroses.