Blood Vulture

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.

“The record deals with acceptance,” Olds explains, noting the existential crises the characters in his songs face mirror the process of putting the project together. Die Closetells the story of The Master, 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 big questions: What good is immortality if there’s no one to share it with? What’s the true cost of isolation? 

In reality, they’re questions Olds has found himself asking over the past few years, filtering relationships with friends, family, and even his dog through the crimson-hued lens of the afterlife and set to hypnotic quicksand breakdowns. Add in cameos from Kristin Hayter, Shadows Fall vocalist Brian Fair and Olds’ guitar hero, AFI’s Jade Puget, and the project is one of the most accomplished debuts in some time.

And, just as every crypt needs its keeper, every saga needs its storyteller: To bring these tales to life, Olds worked with special effects artist Kelly Harris to create Montague, a vampire familiar bound to The Master’s every whim. Montague presents Blood Vulture’s story across the audiovisual spectrum with a wink and a snarl, the perfect avatar for these tales of the undead – and an entry to the world Olds hopes to create, exposing audiences to the music that’s moved him his entire life in a way that’s accessible for fans of all genres. It’s the fusion of melodicism and metal taken to even greater extremes, heavier, grimier and more mournful.

“My favorite grunge bands were bringing this very specific, distinct vocal style over what, to them, was the heaviest music,” he says. “I wanted to push that even further with death metal and sludge metal influences and to make it feel authentic as possible.” 

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