This past summer Jordan Olds, a.k.a. Two Minutes to Late Night’s Gwarsenio Hall, released the debut album from his vampiric goth-grunge project Blood Vulture, Die Close — including the standout cut “Burn for It” featuring Shadows Fall‘s Brian Fair. Today (October 14th), just in time for Halloween, he’s offered up the song’s ghoulish music video, which was stars Sleigh Bells‘ Alexis Krauss and was inspired by 1981’s cult psychological horror film Possession.
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“The video is a homage to one of my favorite movies, Possession,” Olds commented. “Almost every shot in the video is a recreation of a scene from the movie paced to the music. For decades, it was so difficult to actually watch the movie. It was banned in the US when it originally came out and then it wasn’t allowed on streaming for a long time. Now thanks to Kino Lorber and Metrograph, there’s tons of screenings and streaming services — including the free ones from the library — showing the full version. I consider it to be one of the great masterpieces in alternative cinema with two of the best on screen performances of all time and my favorite camera work ever.
“This whole idea was basically a Trojan horse to get people excited about that movie again. I also couldn’t be more grateful to my friend Alexis Krauss for trusting me with this idea and giving so much time and energy to this. It takes a special kind of artist and a special kind of talent to find a way to be fully compelling for five entire minutes by themselves and Alexis is that kind of special.”
Next up for Blood Vulture, Olds and his bandmates will hit the road with GWAR, Helmet and the Dwarves, starting October 18th in Salt Lake City, Utah. Check out the full itinerary here.
Die Close is out now via Pure Noise Records.