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Biography

Style:
Pacto de Sangre’s style has been defined by many influences that goes from Rock & Commercial Metal all the way through Death Metal & Progresive Metal, having it’s biggest influences in 80’s True Metal. This special quality has been very well accepted by this generation’s metalheads, contrary to what one would believe. The most adequate classification would be Power Metal with strong Speed Metal and Thrash influences.

Influences & Sound:
From Death & Extol to Iron Maiden & Kreator; from Gun's & Roses to Queensryche prevailing the True Metal from the 80’s.

Origin & History:
Pacto de Sangre was born by November 1996 in Puerto Rico, when Eliezer Robles (2nd guitar), after 2 drug overdoses decided to do something to alert others about the risks of drug use, among other things, and with help of his brothers Mizael (bass & growling voice) & Carlos (drums), “Plenitud” (the band’s first name) was born. Félix Guzmán was then added to the line up to do the main guitars and finally the former singer Luis Vila joined.
4 Years later another band appeared with the same name of “Plenitud” so it was changed to “Pacto de Sangre”. Héctor García (METALOMAN) then enters to substitute Vila on vocals and add some high pitched “Tate-Dickinson-Like” vocals to complete the final line up of the band... The rest is history.

In September, 2002, the band released their first Demo/ EP called "ARREPIENTETE" with studio quality previews of the songs “De Verdad”, “Arrepiéntete” & “Holy Ghost”. On 2003, Pacto de Sangre won by unanimous desicion the "Vida Activa Rock Fest" against another 39 local bands and later on "The Best of The Best Rock Contest" against another 25 bands of different metal and Hardcore variants. Then got some good fame all around and opened some mayor concerts in the island with bands like Rob Rock, Bride & Rivera Bomma among others. On December 2003 their full CD called "Alerta" came out selling over 1,000 copies locally in less than 5 months with no radio airplay at all...

Pacto de Sangre is Tight and furious...