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Artwork by
Alex O'Dowd

Whatness of Allhorse

from Remorse Of Conscience

February 6th, 2026
8 tracks
55:16
Remorse Of Conscience
Remorse Of Conscience
Whatness of Allhorse
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Whatness of Allhorse
Agenbite Misery
Urbane to comfort them The quaker librarian purred Glittereyed, rufous skull Sought the face, Bearded amid darkgreener shadow, Holyeyed. Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. This verily is that. I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter. Unsheathe your dagger definitions. The maelstrom The sumptuous murder The goad of the flesh embittered Hathaway’s bed The play begins A player arrives It is the ghost, the king and the player is him To a son he speaks, the son of his soul, the prince, young Hamlet and to the son of his body, Hamnet Shakespeare, who has died in Stratford that his namesake may live for ever. I want to know that he did not draw or foresee the logical conclusion you are the dispossessed son I am the murdered father: your mother is the guilty queen. Her ghost at least has been laid for ever. She died, for literature at least, before she was born. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. The maelstrom The sumptuous murder The goad of the flesh embittered Hathaway’s bed The play begins A player arrives It is the ghost, the king and the player is him He wrote Hamlet in the months that followed his father's death. He carried a memory in his wallet: The girl I left behind me. It is a mystical estate,an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten, founded, like the world, macro and microcosm, upon the void. That memory, Venus and Adonis, lay in the bedchamber of every light-of-love in London. Is Katharine the shrew illfavoured? Hortensio calls her young and beautiful. Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to he withal? Good: he left her and gained the world of men. But I Survive But I, entelechy, form of forms am I, by memory prize of their fray Agenbuyer. I paid my way I paid my way
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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. 

Credits

Samuel Graff - Guitars, Vocals, Synth
Cameron Netland - Bass, Vocals
Adam Richards - Drums, Vocals

Additional guitar (track 4, track 7), & synthesizers (track 4, track 7) by Eric Sauter

Recorded 2024-2025
Drums recorded at Highwire Studios
Mixed by Eric Sauter @ Blackheart Sound
Mastered by Brad Boatright @ Audiosiege Studios