Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
A multivalent album of death metal, avant-garde, and soundscapes.
"We love you so much, our country is fucked"
-Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Free to download on Bandcamp: puritanopiate.bandcamp.com
1. The Unconscious of Language (0:00)
2. Unnatural Men with Machine Minds (7:02)
3. Untenanted by any Tangible Form (11:51)
4. Hypomanic Dissolve (22:32)
5. Twilight of Such Day (30:01)
6. Serpentine Collapse (38:55)
7. An Angry Self-Hating Man (42:11)
8. Meat, Steel, Filth, Pastoral (1:05:40)
9. A New Day at Dusk (1:12:36)
All music written by Jason Clemence
All music performed by Jason Clemence on guitars, bass, piano, synth, and vocals
Drums sampled from Arnaud Krakowka and DoomTones, except track 4, drums performed live by Jason
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jason Clemence
Literary Works that appear in spoken word and vocals:
Track 1: Lecture on Lacanian psycholinguistics by Prof. Paul Fry (Yale)
Track 2: Charlie Chaplin, monologue from "The Great Dictator"
Track 5: Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
Track 7: Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"
Track 8: Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
A multivalent album of death metal, avant-garde, and soundscapes.
"We love you so much, our country is fucked"
-Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Free to download on Bandcamp: puritanopiate.bandcamp.com
1. The Unconscious of Language (0:00)
2. Unnatural Men with Machine Minds (7:02)
3. Untenanted by any Tangible Form (11:51)
4. Hypomanic Dissolve (22:32)
5. Twilight of Such Day (30:01)
6. Serpentine Collapse (38:55)
7. An Angry Self-Hating Man (42:11)
8. Meat, Steel, Filth, Pastoral (1:05:40)
9. A New Day at Dusk (1:12:36)
All music written by Jason Clemence
All music performed by Jason Clemence on guitars, bass, piano, synth, and vocals
Drums sampled from Arnaud Krakowka and DoomTones, except track 4, drums performed live by Jason
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jason Clemence
Literary Works that appear in spoken word and vocals:
Track 1: Lecture on Lacanian psycholinguistics by Prof. Paul Fry (Yale)
Track 2: Charlie Chaplin, monologue from "The Great Dictator"
Track 5: Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
Track 7: Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"
Track 8: Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"


![Puritan Opiate - Whispers of Cognitive Obliteration (full dark ambient album)
Composed and Performed on Synth, Piano, and Guitar by Jason Clemence
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jason Clemence
i. Whispers of Cognitive Obliteration (0:00)
ii. Hiss and Clash and Hollow Hum (8:26)
iii. Elusive Regret (24:42)
iv. Serrated Gods (37:05)
v. Intolerable Allegories [remastered from 2023 version] (44:37)
Field recordings on tracks 1 and 4 made in the Massachusetts woods in December 2023 and April 2024.
And I saw the black storm come
Nearer, minute after minute,
Its thunder made the cataracts dumb,
With hiss, and clash, and hollow hum
It neared as if the Devil was in it.
-Percy Shelley Puritan Opiate - Whispers of Cognitive Obliteration (full dark ambient album)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xinDUIPGizw/mqdefault.jpg)

