A year later in 2001 the band was joined by former Revival lead guitarist Oleksiy Furman, female keyboardist Vira Kniazeva and former Maranatha member Yevhen Tsesarev replaced Radionov as a bassist.
Artem Stupak focused on his own project, unblack metal duo Evroklidon, and eventually Buzylevych became the rhythm guitarist.
Buzlylevych and Rodionov recorded a death-grind studio project under the name Requital and released the album Retribution for Sin.
In the March 2004, Holy Blood was featured on a compilation of Ukrainian Christian metal bands called Total Armageddon.
During the same month the band launched its website and afterwards their popularity increased notably outside their native country,[2] and started writing third album.
In late 2008, the band went through major line-up changes: in a press release on their website, it was announced that all other members apart from Fedir Buzylevych left to continue under a different name, Oskord, while Fedir will continue under the Holy Blood moniker with new members, including his wife Vira, who was previously in Holy Blood from 2001 to 2005.
With new members surrounding Fedir and Vira, Holy Blood completed fourth album, Shining Sun, in early 2010.
On December 25, 2013, the band announced they are in the studio working on a new album, and released a promotional video featuring a demo of a new song: "Holy Blood".
On February 18, the band's official website was updated, revealing a complete lineup change occurred once again, with the exception of Buzilevich.
In April 2017, it was announced that Holy Blood had signed to Vision of God Records, and released a new EP, Glory to the Heroes, on May 10, 2017.
[10] Waves are Dancing embraced more folk oriented direction as majority of the songs incorporate flute and bagpipe.