‘Two Minutes To Late Night‘ host Jordan Olds is stepping out from behind the corpsepaint of his ‘Gwarsenio Hall‘ persona with his gothic sludge metal band, Blood Vulture. Their debut album “Die Close” will be out June 27th on Pure Noise Records. A video for the lead single, “A Dream About Starving To Death“, has just made its way out into the world and Olds said alongside it:
“‘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 Elm 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.”
Two Minutes To Late Night delivered a prolific series of episodes and bedroom covers featuring various metal and rock artists. This new project continues that sense of collaboration to an extent, with the likes of AFI‘s Jade Puget, Shadows Fall‘s Brian Fair and Kristin Hayter (Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, formerly Lingua Ignota) all guesting.
“Die Close” track listing:
01 – “Die Close – Overature”
02 – “An Embrace In The Flood”
03 – “A Dream About Starving To Death”
04 – “Grey Mourning” (feat. Jade Puget)
05 – “Entwined” (feat. Kristin Hayter)
06 – “Die Close – Interlude”
07 – “Burn For It” (feat. Brian Fair)
08 – “The Silence of God”
09 – “Abomination”
10 – “Die Close – Finale”
“Die Close” pre-orders are available through lnk.to/BloodVulture.
