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
