Blood of Kingu

The challenge of merging native folk music and pagan philosophies with black metal was seemingly not ambitious or all-consuming enough for the members of the Ukraine's widely acclaimed Drudkh. Or else bandmembers Roman Saenko (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Thurios (guitar), Krechet (bass), and Yuriy Sinitsky (drums) wouldn't have found the energy to start a side project in 2005 named Blood of Kingu, in order to explore Sumerian, Egyptian, Tibetan, and Indo-Aryan mythologies. Now, as you'll see by turning to page 217 in your textbooks, Kingu was of course the Babylonian deity who...