THE BLOOD WE'VE GIVEN
- 1Melting In Shag
- 2Cacophony Road
- 3The Year Before And After
- 4Close The Door
- 5Sandpaper Sawdust
- 6His Directional Scars
- 7Ancestral Curse
- 8Jesters Laughing At The Crucifix
- 9Amnestic
- 10Molech's Offering
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"THE BLOOD WE'VE GIVEN" was created alongside HYMNS OF KINSHIP, born from the same process but a different part of the story. If HYMNS OF KINSHIP was an attempt to understand what was handed down to me, this album is the sound of what was taken.
Built from the same family country gospel record, In Jesus’ Name, it was transformed beyond recognition. The album explores the darker edges of not only my upbringing but my family's as well.
Over a month of isolation inside my home studio, I relived painful, suppressed memories, which were morphed into ten tracks.
What remains is a document of the uglier truths I grew up with. A nightmare of an album. An honest expression of what it feels like when faith is weaponized against a child.
In Jesus’ Name, HYMNS OF KINSHIP, and THE BLOOD WE’VE GIVEN are part of a larger transmedia project that unfolds across music and visual storytelling. Following the creation of these albums in the summer of 2025, I spent the remainder of the year developing THEE HYMNALS, an experimental, found-footage hybrid unfiction horror web series (Oct 1, 2025 – Jan 17, 2026) that explores the trauma, history, and stories contained within the music.
The web series examines my actual family’s history, including the tragic loss of their youngest son, John John, and how it shaped their future. Across thirty episodes and thirty songs, the series functions as an alternate reality game (ARG): viewers can follow the cryptic, Southern Gothic narrative or dig deeper to uncover the connections to the albums themselves.
The story follows me navigating symbolic worlds that represent the traumas of my family, collecting six enigmatic melodies to confront and break a generational curse. In this way, the project is both a personal exploration and a reinterpretation of my history through art. Audience interpretation is encouraged. Viewers can treat it as a surreal, cryptic web series, or engage with the deeper musical and narrative layers.
Watch the series and explore the project here:
TikTok: tiktok.com/@theehymnals
YouTube: youtube.com/@theehymnals
Credits:
Written, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered: Justin Allen Nelms
Album Artwork: Justin Williams
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Built from the same family country gospel record, In Jesus’ Name, it was transformed beyond recognition. The album explores the darker edges of not only my upbringing but my family's as well.
Over a month of isolation inside my home studio, I relived painful, suppressed memories, which were morphed into ten tracks.
What remains is a document of the uglier truths I grew up with. A nightmare of an album. An honest expression of what it feels like when faith is weaponized against a child.
In Jesus’ Name, HYMNS OF KINSHIP, and THE BLOOD WE’VE GIVEN are part of a larger transmedia project that unfolds across music and visual storytelling. Following the creation of these albums in the summer of 2025, I spent the remainder of the year developing THEE HYMNALS, an experimental, found-footage hybrid unfiction horror web series (Oct 1, 2025 – Jan 17, 2026) that explores the trauma, history, and stories contained within the music.
The web series examines my actual family’s history, including the tragic loss of their youngest son, John John, and how it shaped their future. Across thirty episodes and thirty songs, the series functions as an alternate reality game (ARG): viewers can follow the cryptic, Southern Gothic narrative or dig deeper to uncover the connections to the albums themselves.
The story follows me navigating symbolic worlds that represent the traumas of my family, collecting six enigmatic melodies to confront and break a generational curse. In this way, the project is both a personal exploration and a reinterpretation of my history through art. Audience interpretation is encouraged. Viewers can treat it as a surreal, cryptic web series, or engage with the deeper musical and narrative layers.
Watch the series and explore the project here:
TikTok: tiktok.com/@theehymnals
YouTube: youtube.com/@theehymnals
Credits:
Written, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered: Justin Allen Nelms
Album Artwork: Justin Williams
license
