Blood Covenant is a five-piece extreme metal

Extreme metal

Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style or sound nearly always associated with genres like black metal,...

 band from Chennai

Chennai

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, India

India

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 which formed in September 2005. The band claims to be of the genre "white extreme metal," a fusion

Fusion (music)

A fusion genre is music that combines two or more styles. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel and country music. The main characteristics of fusion genres are variations in tempo, rhythm, i a sometimes the use of long musical "journeys" that can be divided...

 of Christian metal

Christian metal

Christian metal, also known as white metal, is a form of heavy metal music usually defined by its message in a song's lyrics as well as the band's dedication to Christianity...

, Death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

, Grind metal, and influences of Speed metal

Speed metal

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. Currently the band is working on an album which is due to be released by next year. The band's influences include Mortification

Mortification

Mortification can refer to:*Mortification , theological doctrine*Mortification of the flesh, religious practice of corporal mortification...

, Living Sacrifice

Living Sacrifice

Living Sacrifice is a Christian heavy metal band that formed in September 1989 in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. The band has released seven studio albums, out of which the first three were recorded under R.E.X. Records with their original vocalist Darren Johnson as a more thrash metal and death metal...

, Extol

Extol

Extol is a Christian progressive extreme metal band from Bekkestua, Norway, that was formed in 1993. In 2007, they announced they were splitting up to work on separate projects. The band is known for playing a variety of different styles of metal which include progressive death metal, melodic death...

, Crimson Moonlight

Crimson Moonlight

Crimson Moonlight is a Swedish Christian black metal band which was formed in the summer of 1997 with the mere intention of recording a primitive old school black metal demo and playing one show before breaking up. However, the breakup never happened, and they have since recorded two EPs and two...

, Horde

Horde

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, Frost Like Ashes

Frost Like Ashes

Frost Like Ashes is a Christian blackened death/thrash band that formed in Kansas City, Missouri in 2001. The band has released two EP's and a full-length CD titled Tophet, and their songs have appeared on 2 compilations titled A Brutal Christmas and A Treasury of Sorrows...

, and Antestor

Antestor

Antestor is an extreme metal band formed in 1990 in Jessheim, Norway. Credited for starting the whole northern European Christian extreme metal scene, Antestor is the only Christian band to have an album released by Cacophonous Records, which has also released records by bands such as Dimmu Borgir,...

. All the lyrical content is based on the New Testament

New Testament

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of the Bible.

Band members

• Eddie(Ed Bull), Vocals
• Tim(Wolf), Guitars
• David(Stone)Livingstone, Bassist
• Ronald(Slaughter)Nathanael, Guitars, Backing vocals
• Brijesh(Hurricane)Sereno, Drummer