AGENBITE MISERY Announce New Single “Cascara Sagrada” from Forthcoming Debut Remorse of Conscience

Extreme-metal visionaries AGENBITE MISERY return with their newest single, “Cascara Sagrada,” a ferocious and intricately constructed piece that showcases the band’s most adventurous writing to date. The track serves as the latest preview of their debut full-length Remorse of Conscience, a concept album that adapts every chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses into a standalone sonic experience.

Originally the final composition written for the record, “Cascara Sagrada” stands apart with its non-traditional structure, technical ambition, and uniquely dissonant atmosphere. Drawing heavily from avant-extreme acts like Pyrrhon and Convulsing, the single embodies the unsettling tension and warped melodicism that defines the band’s sound.

Lyrically and conceptually, the song adapts “Calypso,” the fourth episode of Ulysses, introducing protagonist Leopold Bloom as he navigates a sequence of mundane morning rituals. AGENBITE MISERY push this banality into sinister territory, using repetition, structural distortion, and grinding dissonance to reflect the bleak monotony simmering beneath everyday life. Motifs recur like intrusive thoughts, constantly familiar, perpetually destabilized.

Musically, “Cascara Sagrada” traverses a bold and unpredictable arc: a sludgy, odd-meter opening riff with sliding guitars and angular drum phrasing; a Slint-inspired indie-rock passage filled with tense chord voicings; a plunge into a psychedelic black-metal spiral; an unconventional solo section featuring core-leaning chugs, an explosive drum showcase, and a dissonant death-metal guitar lead; and finally, an extended crescendo of supreme dissonance, slowing in tempo as the band grinds between two unnerving chords, culminating in an uncomfortably powerful resolution.

The lyrics mirror this escalating unease. The opening lines reference Bloom’s domestic tasks (“Kidneys were in his mind”) before spiraling into the concept of metempsychosis, the novel’s core theme of spiritual migration across identities and histories. A spoken-word interlude draws directly from Joyce’s depiction of Bloom in the bathroom, injecting dark humor amid the turmoil. The climactic section erupts into a fever-dream vision of biblical desolation and ancestral dread. The final vocal barrage (“Grey horror seared his flesh / Cold oils slid along his veins…”) pushes the song to a visceral emotional peak.

With Remorse of Conscience, AGENBITE MISERY carve out a singular artistic space where literary modernism and extreme metal collide with startling clarity. “Cascara Sagrada” offers a vivid glimpse into the album’s ambition. The song presents a transformative, genre-defying journey through one of literature’s most challenging works, reimagined through a lens of sonic extremity.

About AGENBITE MISERY:
AGENBITE MISERY is a New Hampshire-based trio that fuses literary ambition with the visceral force of experimental metal. Formed in 2022 by guitarist Sam Graff, bassist Cam Netland, and drummer Adam Richards, the band emerged from a shared academic background in literature and a mutual devotion to the most extreme and boundary-pushing corners of heavy music.

At its core, AGENBITE MISERY is a project rooted in transformation. Their work doesn’t merely incorporate influences, it dismantles them, reshapes them, and recontextualizes them within a vision that is as cerebral as it is punishing. Their sound weaves together elements of black metal, sludge, death metal, post-punk, ambient, and noise rock, unified not by style but by intent: to confront, to immerse, and to challenge.

Individually, the members bring a history of musical experimentation: Sam Graff and Adam Richards were longtime collaborators in the avant-garde project UNDER GREEN SUNS and the Boston metalcore outfit VICARIUM, while Cam Netland previously fronted the Connecticut stoner/black metal band COAGULATE. Together, they’ve forged something entirely distinct, a collective voice that draws from their diverse histories but refuses to be defined by any one genre or scene.

AGENBITE MISERY exists at the edge of metal and the margins of modern art, translating abstract ideas into concrete sound with unrelenting force. Whether performing live or recording in isolation, their ethos remains constant: dig deeper, aim higher, and never repeat what has already been done.

AGENBITE MISERY is:
Sam Graff – Guitars / Vocals / Synth
Cam Netland – Bass / Vocals
Adam Richards – Drums / Vocals

Connect with AGENBITE MISERY:
Bandcamp: https://agenbitemisery.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574211514876#
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AGENBITE MISERY Release “A Charitable View of Temporary Insanity”

Experimental metal trio AGENBITE MISERY have released “A Charitable View of Temporary Insanity,” the latest track from their forthcoming debut album Remorse of Consciousness, due out February 6, 2026.

Serving as the emotional centerpiece of the record’s first half, the song is a sprawling meditation on death, memory, and inner turmoil. It adapts the “Hades” episode from James Joyce’s Ulysses, in which protagonist Leopold Bloom journeys through Dublin to attend a funeral while reflecting on personal loss. With lyrics drawn directly from Bloom’s internal monologue, the band translates Joyce’s psychological density into a massive, genre-warping composition.

The track unfolds with a gentle, ambient intro that evokes the quiet tension of a city morning. Subtle field recordings and bass harmonics set the scene before a crushing sludge riff drops in, anchoring the song’s emotional gravity. From there, the composition drifts between suffocating heaviness and moments of haunted clarity. Elements of funeral doom, acoustic interludes, blackened chaos, and harsh noise are woven together with meticulous intent.

One of the track’s most jarring moments comes when the instrumentation falls away completely, leaving only sparse percussion and a raw, grief-stricken vocal. The lyrics, drawn from Bloom’s thoughts about his deceased infant son, strike with an emotional immediacy that few metal bands attempt, let alone deliver with this level of conviction.

“A Charitable View of Temporary Insanity” is a clear statement of purpose from a band committed to exploring the limits of what heavy music can express. While dense and ambitious, the song remains grounded in thoughtful, evocative songwriting that rewards close listening.

Remorse of Consciousness adapts each chapter of Ulysses into a standalone piece, forming a concept album that bridges literary complexity with sonic extremity. With this single, AGENBITE MISERY continues to carve out a space entirely their own, where literature and extreme metal converge with startling clarity.

About AGENBITE MISERY:
AGENBITE MISERY is a New Hampshire-based trio that fuses literary ambition with the visceral force of experimental metal. Formed in 2022 by guitarist Sam Graff, bassist Cam Netland, and drummer Adam Richards, the band emerged from a shared academic background in literature and a mutual devotion to the most extreme and boundary-pushing corners of heavy music.

At its core, AGENBITE MISERY is a project rooted in transformation. Their work doesn’t merely incorporate influences, it dismantles them, reshapes them, and recontextualizes them within a vision that is as cerebral as it is punishing. Their sound weaves together elements of black metal, sludge, death metal, post-punk, ambient, and noise rock, unified not by style but by intent: to confront, to immerse, and to challenge.

Individually, the members bring a history of musical experimentation: Sam Graff and Adam Richards were longtime collaborators in the avant-garde project UNDER GREEN SUNS and the Boston metalcore outfit VICARIUM, while Cam Netland previously fronted the Connecticut stoner/black metal band COAGULATE. Together, they’ve forged something entirely distinct, a collective voice that draws from their diverse histories but refuses to be defined by any one genre or scene.

AGENBITE MISERY exists at the edge of metal and the margins of modern art, translating abstract ideas into concrete sound with unrelenting force. Whether performing live or recording in isolation, their ethos remains constant: dig deeper, aim higher, and never repeat what has already been done.

AGENBITE MISERY is:
Sam Graff – Guitars / Vocals / Synth
Cam Netland – Bass / Vocals
Adam Richards – Drums / Vocals

Connect with AGENBITE MISERY:
Bandcamp: https://agenbitemisery.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574211514876#
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agenbitemisery/?hl=en
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwjOZilhkqTRkZHpJJwlbhw
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dYQgCtNvpvNWwfQ06LQQZ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/agenbite-misery/1716987132
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@agenbite.misery
Ampwall: https://agenbitemisery.ampwall.com/

AGENBITE MISERY - Remorse of Conscience

AGENBITE MISERY is a New Hampshire-based trio whose debut album Remorse of Conscience is one of the most ambitious concept records to emerge from the modern extreme metal underground. Formed in late 2022 by guitarist Sam Graff, bassist Cam Netland, and drummer Adam Richards, the band began with a deceptively simple idea: to adapt James Joyce’s Ulysses into an experimental metal album. What emerged from that idea is a 55-minute odyssey of layered sonic aggression and literary depth, an album that blends blackened sludge, dissonant death metal, post-punk, ambient drone, and more into a singular, genre-defying statement of purpose.

The name AGENBITE MISERY is itself a reflection of the band’s literary roots, pulled from a line in Ulysses that references the 14th-century English devotional text Agenbite of Inwit. The phrase, literally “again-bite of inner wit,” or modernized as “remorse of conscience," became the perfect thematic and philosophical framework for an album steeped in grief, alienation, and the search for meaning in modern life. The band’s name was chosen because it reflects the deep, biting sorrow that pervades the novel and their music. Though the original pronunciation might have been “ah-jehn-bite,” the band opts for a harder, contemporary “ae-ghen-bite” as a nod to their mission of dragging ancient texts into the present.

Remorse of Conscience was written over the course of 2023 and recorded in 2024, entirely self-produced by the band, with mixing by Eric Sauter and mastering by Brad Boatright. The recording sessions were a direct extension of the trio’s collaborative ethos: a commitment to honesty, maximalism, and transformation. Each of the album’s eight songs adapts a chapter from Ulysses, using lyrics pulled directly from Joyce’s prose and reshaping them into brutal, beautiful sonic forms. The band sees each track not merely as a song but as a new translation, an attempt to convert stream-of-consciousness literature into aural energy.

About AGENBITE MISERY:

AGENBITE MISERY is a New Hampshire-based trio that fuses literary ambition with the visceral force of experimental metal. Formed in 2022 by guitarist Sam Graff, bassist Cam Netland, and drummer Adam Richards, the band emerged from a shared academic background in literature and a mutual devotion to the most extreme and boundary-pushing corners of heavy music.

At its core, AGENBITE MISERY is a project rooted in transformation. Their work doesn’t merely incorporate influences, it dismantles them, reshapes them, and recontextualizes them within a vision that is as cerebral as it is punishing. Their sound weaves together elements of black metal, sludge, death metal, post-punk, ambient, and noise rock, unified not by style but by intent: to confront, to immerse, and to challenge.

Individually, the members bring a history of musical experimentation: Sam Graff and Adam Richards were longtime collaborators in the avant-garde project UNDER GREEN SUNS and the Boston metalcore outfit VICARIUM, while Cam Netland previously fronted the Connecticut stoner/black metal band COAGULATE. Together, they’ve forged something entirely distinct, a collective voice that draws from their diverse histories but refuses to be defined by any one genre or scene.

AGENBITE MISERY exists at the edge of metal and the margins of modern art, translating abstract ideas into concrete sound with unrelenting force. Whether performing live or recording in isolation, their ethos remains constant: dig deeper, aim higher, and never repeat what has already been done.

AGENBITE MISERY is:

Sam Graff – Guitars / Vocals / Synth
Cam Netland – Bass / Vocals
Adam Richards – Drums / Vocals

Connect with AGENBITE MISERY: