Holy Blood

Holy Blood is a Christian Fowk metal baund frae Kiev in Ukraine.  They stairtit out in 1999 an haes set furth thrie albums syne than.

History
Holy Blood wis stairtit in 1999 bi Fedir Buzylevych (guitar an vocals), Myhailo Rodionov (bass guitar) an Dmytro Titorenko (drums). At the stairt their style wis bruital haurdcore, but suin chynged tae a mair hivy soondin deid/grind metal style. 
Efter eikin mair muisikers tae the line-up (Yevhen Tsesarev replacin Rodionov on bass, Oleksiy Furman jyned as lead guiarist an Vira Knyazeva wis eikit tae play keybuirds) their style chynged ance mair tae a mair melodic deid metal. Vira Knyazeva an Fedir Buzylevych wis mairiet in 2001.
It wis wi this line-up that the baund recordit their first album, cried The Wanderer in 2002.
Whan guitarist Oleksiy Furman quat the baund in 2002, he wis replaced bi Artem Stupak, an Buzylevych eikit the block flute tae the baund's soond. Wi thir chynges, the baund teuk a mair Fowk metal approach. They stairted scrievin wi a wheen mair fowk influences for their seicont album that wis cried Waves Are Dancing, released on the Christian Metal label Bombworks Records in 2004 (efter some mair line-up chynges).   

Muisical chairactereestics
The fowk elements o Holy Blood's muisic is taen frae Ukranian fowk tradeetions an a tait Celtic muisic an aw. Flutes an bagpipes aften gies the sang its main fowk style melody wi black or deid metal guitars an drums gien the backin.
The metal elements is taen frae black metal an deid metal. Their vocals is for ordinar black metal style harsk vocals (baith hie an law pitched), but they uise a tait operatic female vocals an queirs in some o thier sangs an aw. They scrieve their sangs in the Ukrainian leid an aye scrieve anent their Christian faith, heiven, God etc.

Discography
Albums
 The Wanderer (2002)
 Waves Are Dancing (2004)
 The Patriot (2007)
 Shining Sun (2010)

Compilations
 Total Armageddon (2004)
 Smashed Ground (2005)
Videos
 The Spring (2004)
 The Patriot (2006)

Line-Up
Current Members
 Fedir Buzylevych -  Vocals an Guitar
 Vira Kniazeva, Vocals
 Serhiy Nahorny -  Lead Guitar
 Oleksiy "Axxent" Andrushenko - Bass Guitar
 Dmytro Titorenko -  Drums
 Volodyslav Malytsky -  Keybuirds

Umwhile Members
 Artem Stupak- Lead Guitar
 Yevhen Tsesarev- Bass
 Myhailo Rodionov- Guitar
 Vira Knyazyova-  Keybuirds
  Vyacheslav Kirishun - Fowk instruments

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Category:Ukrainian hivy metal muisical groups
Category:Christian metal muisical groups
Category:Fowk metal muisical groups