"Love Like Blood" is Killing Joke's second single from their fifth studio album, Night Time. Produced by Chris Kimsey, the song was characterized as gothic rock and new wave.

"Love Like Blood" was originally released by E.G. Records in January 1985 as a 12" in the UK, and a 12" maxi single in Germany. The 7" single on E.G. was released in the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany. Polydor also released a 12" single in the Netherlands and a 12" maxi single in France. E.G. Records' 12" and 12" maxi singles’ A-sides featured the track "Love Like Blood (Version)", a different version of the song, and as B-sides, the radio version of "Love Like Blood" and "Blue Feather (Version)", the same track list as Polydor’s release. E.G.'s 12" maxi single, released in Germany, featured the same tracks, as did Polydor’s maxi single released in France. E.G.’s 7” single exempted "Love Like Blood (Version)" and instead featured the radio version of "Love Like Blood" as the A-side. E.G. also released "Love Like Blood (Gestalt Mix)" in the UK as a 12" single. It replaced "Love Like Blood (Version)" with the remix as an A-side, and was limited to only 2000 copies. It later appeared on the 2008 reissue of Night Time, along with a completely different version of "Blue Feather" that did not appear on any of the releases of "Love Like Blood". "Love Like Blood" was reissued in 1998 as a 12" single by Butterfly Records, as a live remix, alongside a remix of the song "Intellect" from Killing Joke’s 11th studio album, Democracy.

"Love Like Blood" was an international hit and defined Killing Joke in the 1980s. Allmusic stated:

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