EPK – These Cursed Hands – Intelligent (RE)Design (2024)
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For Fans of Black Dahlia Murder, Dark Tranquility, Thy Art is Murder, Children of Bodom, Ne Obliviscaris
Band: These Cursed Hands
EP: Intelligent (RE)Design
Release: November 1, 2024
Label: Self-Release
Distribution: DistroKid
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““Intelligent (RE)Design” is an impressive display of extreme metal that mixes black metal, metalcore, deathcore, and death metal in an attractively intense sound. These Cursed Hands bring a sense of nostalgia with their music while still bringing a modern and distinctly unique sound to the table. ” – The Metal Verse (2024 – Intelligent (RE)Design)
“These Cursed Hands create a powerful chorus that utilizes sing-screaming to hit melodic notes while still using extreme vocals and continuing the momentum of the song. The band does an excellent job of adding in blackened influences and making the music have an evil and dark overall feel. The track goes into an immersive guitar solo that fades out the song on a highly technical note. Fans of death metal, deathcore, and blackened metal genres will really enjoy These Cursed Hands!” The Metal Verse (2023 – Hell Breaks Loose (single)
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Band: These Cursed Hands
EP: Intelligent (RE)Design
Release: November 1, 2024
Label: Self-Release
Distribution: DistroKid
Track Listing:
1. Advent (opening only) – 0:34
2. Extermination Revelation – 5:06
3. Murderous Intent – 4:20
4. Onset (interlude) – 0:52
5. Obsolete Beings – 3:27
6. Perihelion – 5:16
7. Collapse (interlude) 0:41
8. Event Horizon – 4:50
EP Length: 25:11
All songs performed by:
These Cursed Hands (Wesley Griswold, Von-Aldrynne Eslava, Travis Cody)
All songs written by: These Cursed Hands (Wesley Griswold, Von-Aldrynne Eslava, Travis Cody)
Produced by: These Cursed Hands
Mixed by: Seanan McCullough at Helvete Studio
Mastered by: Seanan McCullough at Helvete Studio
Album Artwork by: Patrick “Wadl” Hofmeister
EP and Band Lineup:
Wesley Griswold – Guitar
Travis Cody – Drums
Von-Aldrynne Eslava – Vox
Danny Hettum – Bass
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About The Album Artwork:
The artwork was done by a good friend of Travis’, Parick “Wadl” Hofmeister. He is an amazing artist who is very detailed in his painting concepts and then goes extremely detailed in his execution.
The artwork for this album represents the co-opting of humanity’s biomass as we are remade by the artificial beings sent to replace us. The hand, desperate to escape, is slowly being absorbed by the biomechanical structures in which it is entwined. – Wesley Griswold
About the EP as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
Musically this album is a dynamic array of sounds and styles, featuring everything from melodic death and black metal to chunky deathcore and brutal death, with even some more ambient sections to haunt the listener. – Wesley Griswold
Track By Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
1. Advent – This short intro sets the apocalyptic tone for the album, with audio clip from the original 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles.
2. Extermination Revelation – This song opens with epic blackened dissonance before moving into a mix of epic melodic death metal riffs and soaring choruses.
3. Murderous Intent – Murderous Intent is an absolute slugfest of deathcore chugs and death metal riffage.
4. Onset – The extermination has begun, and the artificial siren song of our new overlords rings across the land in this short interlude.
5. Obsolete Beings – In Obsolete Beings, we show our thrashier side, with a mix of lightning-fast riffs and hard-hitting choruses capped off with an absolutely crushing breakdown.
6. Perihelion – Perihelion is our most structurally complex song, moving between haunting ambiance and crushing death metal and deathcore riffs.
7. Collapse – In this brief intermezzo, humanity is now all but lost, enslaved, and consumed by our new masters who know only logic and cold calculation.
8. Event Horizon – Our most epic and melodic piece, Event Horizon is a strong coda to our EP that showcases our more progressive side with soaring melodies and a haunting bridge section with guest vocals from Sasha Gordy. – Wesley Griswold
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L – R: Wes Griswold (Guitar), Travis Cody (Drums), Von-Aldrynne Eslava (Vox), Danny Hettum (Bass)
Photo Credit: Kevin Pettigrew – IG: @k.j.88_photography
Hailing from the darkest, dankest depths of Portland Oregon’s fecund metal scene, These Cursed Hands produce a synthesis of the best elements of black, progressive, core, death, and thrash metal that reduces even the most experienced metal listener into a quivering mass of bodily fluids slowly leeching out into the ground. Their vocal aggression, earthshaking heaviness, explosive rhythm, and face-melting riffage regularly annihilate whole audiences, leaving only ashen smears where fans once stood. As the sun rises on these scenes of sonic devastation, the few remaining survivors will pull themselves from the rubble and spread the cursed word.
Hail Liviyatin! The curse is upon us.
EP and Band Lineup:
Wesley Griswold – Guitar
Travis Cody – Drums
Von-Aldrynne Eslava – Vox
Danny Hettum – Bass
Discography:
2024 – Intelligent (RE)Design – EP
2023 – Drowning in Fire – EP
2023 – Lost at Sea – Single
2023 – Hell Breaks Loose – Single
Shared Stage with: Crypta, Great American Ghost, Saltwound, Steaksauce Mustache, 2 Shadows, Blindwolf, Dark Crucible, Asylum of Ashes, Dead Animal Assembly Plant, Four Dead Seasons, Gravewitch
Tours and Festivals
2025 – WinterFest 2K25, Portland OR
2024 – Washington DeathFest VIII
2024 – Oregon DeathFest II – Keslo, WA
2024 – WinterFest 2K24 – Longview, WA
Endorsements:
Drums
Saluda Cymbals – https://www.saludacymbals.com/c/
Scorpion Percussion – https://scorpionpercussion.com/
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