From the shadowy crypts of somewhere in New York comes a new malevolent demon band, Blood Vulture.
Created by demented mastermind Jordan Old (2 Minutes To Late Night), the sludge metal entity lures listeners in with a mesmerizing melding of gothic romanticism, lush metallic vibes and brutal reckoning on their debut album, “Die Close”, which will see the light on June 27th, 2025, via Pure Noise Records.
Today, Blood Vulture reveals a video for their first song, “A Dream About Starving to Death”. Watch the video below.
Commenting on the track, Old’s says:
“‘A Dream About Starving to Death’ is a song I wrote about a vampire who realizes he is about to watch the world end. He has lived the past the extinction of humanity and lost count of how many days he has been hungry, and he realizes that soon there won’t be an earth anymore. He’s not sure whether it will explode or just rot and crumble, and he’s curious about whether he’ll disintegrate or just float forever in space.
The music video was inspired by the ‘Freddy coming through the wall’ scene from ‘A Nightmare On Elms Street’. I then built it around a sleep paralysis narrative and had a lot of fun creating a Gullermo Del Toro style Hat Man and a goopy void reminiscent of Aliens and the symbiote from Spiderman alongside one of my main visual collaborators for this project, Kelly Harris. She also built and designed ‘Montague’ the puppet from the ‘Blood Vault’ segment at the beginning of the video. She’s a genius”.
Pre-order & pre-save “Die Close” here.
Tracklist:
1. Die Close – Overature
2. An Embrace in the Flood
3. A Dream About Starving ro Death
4. Grey Mourning (feat. Jade Puget)
5. Entwined (feat. Kristin Hayter)
6. Die Close – Interlude
7. Burn For It (feat. Brian Fair)
8. The Silence of God
9. Abomination
10. Die Close – Finale
Deep in the heart of a dark, mythical land (New York) in a bygone era (2025), Blood Vulture has awakened ominous, morose tales of mortality, grief, madness and obsession. The self-described “Gothic sludge” project is the brainchild of Jordan Olds (Two Minutes to Late Night.) On his debut LP, “Die Close” (Pure Noise), Olds melds the emotive vocal stylings of grunge’s golden era with death metal, goth rock, and doom metal through a vampiric lens. The album tells the story of a reclusive vampire long locked away as he grapples with what it means to live forever in a world of impermanence. Blood Vulture’s songs are deeply personal, filtering real life ruminations through fantastical set pieces as tracks like “A Dream About Starving to Death” and the three-part “Die Close” suite ask: What good is immortality if there’s no one to share it with? What’s the true cost of isolation?
