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EPK – These Cursed Hands – Intelligent (RE)Design (2024)
Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com
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/
NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – February 3, 2025
Hungary’s SIN OF GOD Unleashes A Tsunami of Extreme “Black Waves”
Fourth Studio Album “Blood Bound” Out February 18th, 2025 via Extius Stratagem Records
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L-R: Krisztián Páncél (bass) / Tamás Kis (guitar) / Tamás Schupkégel (vocals) / Balázs Botyánszki (drums)
Photo credit: László Varga/VARESZ.Fotó
Hungary’s SIN OF GOD is unleashing a tsunami of relentless extreme metal with “Black Waves”, the second single off their new album “Blood Bound” out on February 18th, 2025 from Exitus Stratagem Records. The track is a barrage of fearless death metal that will drown your senses in an apocalyptic world without escape.
Listen to “Black Waves” at https://youtu.be/u6h13peGlrs
With influences in thrash, ODM, and blackened and progressive death metal, Sin of God‘s next sacrificial offering “Blood Bound” will please both old and new-school death metal fans at the same time. This new full-length presents a collection of variations that exhibit brutality and softness. It is something fans have heard in the past from the band but it has never sounded like this.
Exploring our present society, the record resonates with everything surrounding us, from the good and the bad to the beautiful and ugly, to life and death. “Blood Bound” is not a concept album, but it is united by the pain and rage that boils inside and felt over seven slaughtering tracks.
“This record is somewhat different from the previous ones. It’s more complex and based on modern death metal. We built Blood Bound musically on contrasts. There are amazingly fast parts (260 BPM) but really slow parts as well. It’s old-school and new-school death metal at the same time. Blood Bound is (life and) death metal at its finest, not for the faint of heart, that’s for sure!” adds guitarist Tamás Kis.
Recommended for fans of Aborted, Bloodbath, Cattle Decapitation, Cryptopsy, and Psycroptic, Sin of God’s fourth studio album “Blood Bound” is out on February 18, 2025, from Exitus Stratagem Records, and available for physical pre-order and digital pre-save at the following links:
Digital – https://hypeddit.com/sinofgod/bloodbound
CD pre-order – https://www.exsrmusic.com/store/p/sin-of-god-blood-bound-lp-cd
First single / Music Video – “No Return” – https://youtu.be/r9vmBJSdu_U
Spotify – https://hypeddit.com/sinofgod/noreturn1
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Track Listing:
1. Blood Bound (3:52)
2. Black Waves (4:16)
3. No Return (4:58)
4. The Unbelief (4:49)
5. Diabolical Agitation (7:44)
6. Obulus (3:28)
7. Cerebral Malfunction (4:02)
Album Length: 33:09
Album Credits:
Album recorded at: Denevér Hangstúdió, Hungary
Mixed and mastered by Sam Winslow/Sam Winslow Music
Album artwork by Tamás Kis
Album Band Lineup:
Tamás Schupkégel – Vocals
Tamás Kis – Guitar
Michele Gawen Augello – Bass
Balázs Botyánszki – Drums
Live Band Lineup:
Tamás Schupkégel – Vocals
Tamás Kis – Guitar
Krisztián Páncél – Bass
Balázs Botyánszki – Drums
More info:
Exsrmusic.com | Facebook.com/ExSRecords | Instagram.com/exsrmusic
Sinofgod.com | Facebook.com/sinofgodhu | Instagram.com/sinofgodmetal
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“The record is just killer, full of menacing death metal that doesn’t lean too hard into the old- or new-school sound; think a crossbreed of Book of Black Earth, Deicide, and Fleshgod Apocalypse sans opera, and you’ll have some idea of what these guys are like. Modern death metal fans will love the band’s technicality and production, while classic headbangers will dig their atmosphere and badass riffs. Definitely get into them.” – Metalsucks (Aenigmata – 2016)
“Aenigmata is the band’s latest release, a merciless, destructive Death Metal album in its finest form. Inspired by the occult writings of Alchemy and the dissection of the faith in mankind, the album delivers much darkened and more ferocious sounds than the previous releases. Having a close kinship with bands like Morbid Angel, Immolation, Nile, Behemoth, Krisiun, Dead Congregation and the likes in terms of sonority, the opus is a perfect blending of unilluminated Traditional Death Metal & remorseless Brutal/Technical Death Metal. The 09 tracked album is likely to be embraced by the fans of OSDM & Dark Themed Technical Death Metal.” – Extreminal (Aenigmata – 2016)
“The Hungarians from Sinf Of God play high-energy death metal, and when their riffs hit our eardrums, you get the impression that Attila himself is leading the wild hordes, leaving behind fields of destruction strewn with the corpses of enemies.” – KVLT (Aenigmata – 2016)
“There’s very little to complain about “Aenigmata”, it sounds damn good, both from a musical and production perspective. The songs are varied and technical and it took a few spins for the record to settle but that normally is a good thing as it grows for each spin… it’s a solid Death Metal record and with this, I should go easily to it when digging out Brutal music.” – Metal Kaoz – (Aenigmata – 2016)
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