Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
A tribute/homage to the riffy 80s thrash metal I stumbled across in high school and college, albums like Kill Em All, Reign in Blood, Altars of Madness, and Rust in Peace. Followed by a more modern, spacey, progressive movement. I can't shred like Azagthoth or Mustaine, but it was a blast to put this together.
Song title inspired by the album art to Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss.
Music composed by Jason Clemence
Guitars, Bass, Drums, and Synths performed by Jason Clemence
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jason Clemence
A tribute/homage to the riffy 80s thrash metal I stumbled across in high school and college, albums like Kill Em All, Reign in Blood, Altars of Madness, and Rust in Peace. Followed by a more modern, spacey, progressive movement. I can't shred like Azagthoth or Mustaine, but it was a blast to put this together.
Song title inspired by the album art to Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss.
Music composed by Jason Clemence
Guitars, Bass, Drums, and Synths performed by Jason Clemence
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jason Clemence
![Puritan Opiate - Ten Blades Hover Delicately Above Your Ruination
A double-length album of VERY dark ambient.
Some tracks released as singles. Other tracks pulled from my archives, never released before today.
Written, Performed, and Produced by Jason Clemence
Cover Art taken from the Ten of Swords in Victoria Ivas Black Tarot
Tracks:
1. Heretical Doxology (0:00)
2. The Immolation of an Angry and Self-Hating Man (10:02)
3. Neurotheistic [extended version] (33:33)
4. Confessions in Defiance of Fire (54:57)
5. Exquisite Consequence (1:05:07)
6. Despair is Seldom Eternal (1:24:23)
7. Untenanted by any Tangible Form (1:37:26)
8. Intolerable Allegories [increased tempo remaster] (1:48:08)
Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask, which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
-E.A. Poe, The Masque of the Red Death Puritan Opiate - Ten Blades Hover Delicately Above Your Ruination](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VmbnJ6648L8/mqdefault.jpg)





![Puritan Opiate - Neurotheistic (full-length album)
I. Our Frail Barks Founder in Darkness (0:00)
II. Cursed Neutrality (5:54)
III. Small Death in the Red Room (12:43)
IV. Of Old Earth Newly Turned (19:58)
V. The Failure of Outward Forms (27:15)
VI. Neurotheistic (32:40)
VII. Hollow-Eyed & Hateful (43:44)
VIII. Despair is Not Eternal (48:43)
Puritan Opiate is Jason Clemence
All music written by Jason Clemence
Lyrics adapted from Virginia Woolf (I), Charlotte Brontë (III), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (V)
Guitars, Bass, Synths, Piano, and Vocals performed by Jason Clemence.
Drums sampled from @ArnaudKrakowka and @DoomTones; Sequenced by Jason Clemence, except track 7, percussion performed live by Jason Clemence
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jason Clemence
©2024
[he] belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand, since to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the wheel of sensation has the power to crystallise and transfix the moment upon which its gloom or radiance rests . . . for him, the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness.
-V. Woolf, 1927 Puritan Opiate - Neurotheistic (full-length album)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YhEkFa0KLx4/mqdefault.jpg)



