Blood of Kingu

{{Short description|Ukrainian extreme metal band}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Blood of Kingu

| image =

| caption =

| years_active = 2005–2016[https://www.facebook.com/Drudkh.Official/posts/1079797578740196 Blood of Kingu is dead.], Facebook.com

| origin = Kharkiv, Ukraine

| genre = Black metal, death metal{{cite web|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/blood_of_kingu_f1 |title=Blood of Kingu Albums: songs, discography, biography, and listening guide |website=Rateyourmusic.com |accessdate=2020-03-13}}

| label = Candlelight, Supernal Music, {{nowrap|Debemur Morti}}, Season of Mist

| website = {{URL|http://www.myspace.com/bloodofkinguband}}

| current_members = Roman Saenko
Thurios
Krechet
Yuriy Sinitsky

}}

Blood of Kingu was a black metal band from Ukraine formed in 2005 by Roman Saenko, the main member of Drudkh, Dark Ages and Hate Forest.

Lyrically, Blood of Kingu deals with Sumerian/Ancient Egyptian and Indo-European mythology and history. The vocals include death growls as well as Tibetan chants.{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}}.

On 7 December 2007, they released their first album, De occulta philosophia. It was re-released with alternate layout and packaging.

Their second album, Sun in the House of the Scorpion, was recorded in the autumn of 2009 and released on 24 May 2010 by Candlelight Records.

On mid-2016, Blood of Kingu had announced on their Facebook page that the band has ended. After that, Roman Saenko has started another new Black metal band called "Windswept" which its debut album will be released in March 2017 with its first track "Blinding and Bottomless abyss is howling".{{cite web|url=http://www.terrorizer.com/news/listen-to-the-first-track-from-windswept-the-new-drudkh-side-project/ |title=Listen to the first track from Windswept the new Drudkh side-project |website=Terrorizer.com |accessdate=2020-03-13}} Its lyrical inspiration is mostly from nature, similar to Drudkh{{Cite web |url=http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Windswept/3540421633/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=25 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517132633/http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Windswept/3540421633 |archive-date=17 May 2017 |url-status=dead }}