What a great year 2025 has been for music. So many great albums, tours, songs, you name it. And now the time has come for…
The 2025 Audioeclectica End Of The Year Lists begin with the list for Best Vocalist. As always the stipulation for this is that an Album or EP had to be released in 2025.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) Will Benoit- SOM 02) Cassidy Fleeman- The Anti Groupies 03) Josh Graham- Guiltless 04) Davey Havok- AFI 05) Jordan Olds- Blood Vulture 06) Sunny Faris- Blackwater Holylight 07) Trent Reznor- Nine Inch Nails 08) Sean Ingram- Idle Heirs 09) Mike McKeever- Heavy Halo 10) Kal Michael- The Owling
What a great year 2025 has been for music. So many great albums, tours, songs, you name it. And now the time has come for…
The 2025 Audioeclectica End Of The Year Lists begin with the list for Best Guitarist. As always the stipulation for this is that an Album or EP had to be released in 2025.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) Jade Puget- AFI 02) Joe Hunt- Nine Necks 03) Jordan Olds- Blood Vulture 04) Mikayla Mayhew- Blackwater Holylight 05) Mike McKeever- Heavy Halo 06) Josh Barber- Idle Heirs 07) Kal Michael- The Owling 08) Reba Meyers- Reba Meyers 09) Pete Loeffler- Chevelle 10) Roman Ibramkhalilvov- Jinjer
What a great year 2025 has been for music. So many great albums, tours, songs, you name it. And now the time has come for…
The 2025 Audioeclectica End Of The Year Lists begin with the list for Best Drummer. As always the stipulation for this is that an Album or EP had to be released in 2025.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) Adam Carson- AFI 02) Patrick Bellinger- Nine Necks 03) Dave Rosenberg- Deadguy 04) Eliese Dorsay- Blackwater Holylight 05) Billy Graves- Guiltless 06) Justin Forrest- SOM 07) Kyla Foster- The Anti Groupies 08) Moe Watson- Blood Vulture 09) Sam Loeffler- Chevelle 10) Art Quanstrom- The Owling
What a great year 2025 has been for music. So many great albums, tours, songs, you name it. And now the time has come for…
The 2025 Audioeclectica End Of The Year Lists begin with the list for Best Bassist. As always the stipulation for this is that an Album or EP had to be released in 2025.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) Hunter Burgan- AFI 02) Matt Bellinger- Nine Necks 03) Jim Baglino- Deadguy 04) Sunny Faris- Blackwater Holylight 05) Sacha Dunable- Guiltless 06) Justin Forrest- SOM 07) Sydney Moore- The Anti Groupies 08) Jordan Olds- Blood Vulture 09) Kemble Walters- Chevelle 10) Zach Cooper- Coheed And Cambria
Today is Bandcamp Friday (when they wave their fee for 24 hours) and why not showcase some great bands and their albums/singles that are out now! Check out these bands and show them some support! There’s a ton of great bands and albums on this list. Take some time and discover something new! Enjoy! If I missed your band, let me know and I’ll add it to the list!
I love when I get sent albums to check out. Sometimes I will go in blind without reading anything about the band and who is in it just so I can be surprised by what I’m listening to. Now this doesn’t always work out for the best but, when it does, oh my, it’s quite the experience. Recently I put an album on that really knocked my socks off! The band name peaked my interest as well as the cover art, so I put it on and what I heard was damn good. What I heard sounded like the perfect blend of 90’s grunge, parts of death metal, goth rock, and doom metal. now, with that in mind allow me to introduce you to Blood Vulture and their debut album, Die Close.
Blood Vulture is the brain child of Jordan OIds, who you might know as Gwarsenio Hall from the very hilarious internet show, Two Minutes To Late Night. This very cinematic debut album takes it’s lead from classic and modern vampiric influences like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Near Dark and Let The Right One In to create a very dark and vivid world that tells a great narrative story while also leading you down a dark musical alley. Throughout the albums 10 songs, you get sucked in more and more (no pun intended- though that worked out perfectly). The epic nature of this album allows you to listen multiple times and get swept away by all that this is. I keep finding more to like with each listen. Another aspect to this album that is quite fun is the guest appearance of A.F.I.’s Jade Puget on the song “Grey Mourning,” which as of this writing, is my favorite song on the album. Shadow’s Fall vocalist Brian Fair guests on the song “Burn For It” and Lingua Ignota’s Kristen Hayter is on the song “Entwined.”
Die Close is not a joke album! This is a really serious album that actually feels deeply personal, as the stories told sift through real life situations but, set in a more “mythical setting” to add a bit more dramatic pause. This is one of the best albums I’ve heard all year. Blood Vulture is definitely in my Top 10 Albums of 2025! The creativity as well as songwriting on Die Close, really shows how talented Jordan is and I look forward to more! This is soooooooo good! You can catch Blood Vulture on tour this fall with GWAR and HELMET!!!!
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