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, who for nearly a decade has moonlighted as Gwarsenio Hall, host of Two Minutes to Late Night, the world’s only heavy metal talk show and a place for the New York-based comedian and his friends and idols to put satirical spins on iconic songs from the likes of Fleetwood Mac and Guns N’ Roses.

Those ambitions are bigger and more cinematic on Blood Vulture’s debut LP, DIE CLOSE(Pure Noise), delivered with the narrative flair of a horror anthology and the emotional punch of a deathbed confession. Melding the emotive vocal stylings of grunge’s golden era with death metal, goth rock, and doom metal, the album blends classic and modern vampiric influences like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Near Dark and Let The Right One In to create a mangled world with symphonic seven-string guitar swells lurking down every dark musical corridor.

- From Pure Noise