Aural Vampire have finally released their 2010 album ‘ZOLTANK’ across streaming platforms. 16 years after its initial CD run, the album has now become easily accessible to a whole new generation of vampires and goths.
The announcement was made on the band’s official X (formerly Twitter) account on September 2nd:
Thank you for waiting, and sorry for the long wait!
— オーラルヴァンパイア (@AuralVampire) September 2, 2026
[ZOLTANK] an album featuring many of Aural Vampire’s most iconic songs, is finally available on streaming services.https://t.co/RoIMWJDSSJ pic.twitter.com/L0nUD1AOmn
‘ZOLTANK’ is the band’s second full album, and also their major debut, released through Avex Trax on May 5th 2010. Most of its 16 tracks are 2010 re-recordings of songs the band had already released, including ‘Freeeeze!!’, ‘Shonanzoku -cannibal coast-‘, and ‘PNFPN’, with the remainder new to the album. It also carries ’69 Balloons’, the theme song for Onechanbara THE MOVIE vorteX.
At just over 70 minutes, ‘ZOLTANK’ remains the group’s longest studio album to date, well ahead of the 50-minute ‘RAZORS ON BACKSTREET’ that followed it.
In the same year the album first dropped, Aural Vampire joined Canadian gothic synth-rockers The Birthday Massacre on their 22-city co-headline US tour with Black Veil Brides.
Listen to ‘ZOLTANK’ now across streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and more.
Aural Vampire
ZOLTANK
Release Date: 05/05/10
Label: Avex Trax
Stream: Links
About Aural Vampire
Aural Vampire officially formed in 2004, with vocalist EXO-CHIKA and "Total Sound Master" RAVEMAN. Their first album, 'Vampire Ecstasy', released independently on March 22nd 2004. In 2008 the band announced they had signed to Avex Trax, and following a set of three digital EPs came their 2nd album and first major, 'ZOLTANK', in 2010. Overseas interest had already been growing by that point, with the band's official biography crediting them with reaching number one among Japanese independent artists on MySpace and topping the site's industrial and new wave charts. That reach helped them join Canadian gothic synth-rockers The Birthday Massacre on their co-headline North American tour with Black Veil Brides and Dommin later that same year. Aural Vampire followed 'ZOLTANK' with the 'Kerguelen Vortex' EP in 2011. In 2016 they were featured on Akira Yamaoka's curated soundtrack for the game Let It Die, alongside more than 100 other artists including VELTPUNCH, ROACH, Survive Said the Prophet, and AILIFDOPA. Their contribution, 'LET IT DIE ~Nosaru~', later appeared on their 2018 single 'Ninja vs Amazones'. They have continued to release music through YOTTABYTE over the years, remaining semi-active to this day. The band's latest EP, 'ZOMBIE NAOCCHATTE', dropped on September 29th 2025.
