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THESE CURSED HANDS Conjure An Amalgamation Of Metal Genres In New Video For “Perihelion”

L–R: Wes Griswold (Guitar), Travis Cody (Drums), Von-Aldrynne Eslava (Vox), Danny Hettum (Bass)

Photo Credit: Kevin Pettigrew – IG: @k.j.88_photography

Emerging from Portland, OR’s thriving metal underground, These Cursed Hands has unveiled a visually stunning new video for “Perihelion”, a track from their conceptual EP “Intelligent (RE)Design”, released in November 2024.

These Cursed Hands continue to push the boundaries of modern metal, crafting a distinctive sound that seamlessly fuses black, progressive, core, death, and thrash metal elements. Their latest EP weaves a dark narrative of divine beings who, weary of humanity’s existence, engineer a cybernetic fungal evolution through possessive spores. The theme draws inspiration from “The Terminator”, “The Last of Us”, and “Resident Evil” while incorporating themes from Norse mythology, Christianity, and Satanism. They comment on the track and the album:

“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. Perihelion is our most structurally complex song, moving between haunting ambiance, crushing death metal, and deathcore riffs.”

These Cursed Hands has earned a reputation for their electrifying live performances, featuring programmed lighting, theatrical props, masks, and raw energy that transforms venues into apocalyptic landscapes. 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. They are recommended for fans of The Black Dahlia Murder, Dark Tranquility, and Thy Art is Murder.

Watch and listen to the music video for “Perihelion” via its premiere on Decibel Magazine HERE.

These Cursed Hands’ latest EP “Intelligent (RE)Design” is available on Spotify and Thesecursedhands.bandcamp.com

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

More info: Thesecursedhands.com | Instagram.com/thesecursedhands | Facebook.com/thesecursedhands

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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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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

“We hope this EP will set a much better tone for the music we intend to continue creating. We have really come together in our writing process and honed in on the overall sound we are trying to achieve. We truly gel together, both as musicians and as friends. We hope people get a mix of brutal heaviness with some ambiance too. We love the journey of peaks and valleys that songs like Perihelion and Event Horizon have. The melodic parts really bring the songs down to make the heavy parts more impactful. Then we have songs like Obsolete Beings and Murderous Intent that just hit you in the face the whole time.” – Travis Cody – These Cursed Hands

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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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