THESE CURSED HANDS

These Cursed Hands are:
Wesley Griswold –guitar
Travis Cody – drums
Von-Aldrynne Eslava – vocals
Danny Hettum – bass

discography:

Decibel Magazine:
“The band fuse black, progressive, core, death, and thrash metal elements, and, on their latest album, tell the story of ‘divine beings who, weary of humanity’s existence, engineer a cybernetic fungal evolution through possessive spores.’ Inspired by religion and science fiction, they keep it weird on the record.”
The Metal Verse (2024 – Intelligent (RE)Design):
“‘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 (2023 – Hell Breaks Loose (single):
“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!”

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.
In November 2024 These Cursed Hands released their second EP ‘Intelligent (RE)Design‘.
This EP was mixed and mastered by Seanan McCullough at the Helvete Studio.
Wesley Griswold tells us about this second EP:
“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.”
And Travis Cody continues:
“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.”
Wesley Griswold informs us about the artwork of the EP-cover:
“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.”
And Wesley continues by explaining EP ‘Intelligent (RE)Design‘ song by song:
‘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.”
‘Extermination Revelation’:
“This song opens with epic blackened dissonance before moving into a mix of epic melodic death metal riffs and soaring choruses.”
‘Murderous Intent’:
“‘Murderous Intent’ is an absolute slugfest of deathcore chugs and death metal riffage.”
‘Onset’:
“The extermination has begun, and the artificial siren song of our new overlords rings across the land in this short interlude.”
‘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.”
‘Perihelion’:
“‘Perihelion’ is our most structurally complex song, moving between haunting ambiance and crushing death metal and deathcore riffs.”
‘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.”
‘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.”