artist Cursed

Well you can only put off writing a bio for so long, ideally without falling back on terms like “punishing,” “force to be reckoned with” or “really carved out a niche for themselves”. Not that these aren’t all true of Cursed. Armed with an arsenal of vintage amplitude and the know-how to use it to inflict maximum auditory trauma, Cursed has been giving the most seasoned soundmen grey hairs and ruining young men and women for several years now already. Cities left in ruins, honor-roll students implicated in violent stage-dives, permanent hearing damage, teen-age disobedience to all levels of authority. All these horrors and much, much worse - all true. Cursed formed amid a harsh Canadian winter somewhere ‘twixt 2001/2002. With one half of the band (R.Moumneh and C.Colohan) living in Montreal and the other (C.McMaster and M.Maxymuik) in and around Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. Moumneh, relocating briefly to Lebanon, temporarily left the band. In his absence, bassist Tom Piraino took his place, playing on all three official Cursed recordings. Returning to Canada, Moumneh returned to the band in late 2003 as a second guitarist, adding unspeakable new amount of volume and fullness to the deafening mix. In late 2004, Cursed parted ways with bass player Tom. Into the fold stepped Dan Dunham, a veteran noise/thrash musician and friend to the band both personally and musically, and whose band (Shallow North Dakota) Cursed members had played with since their teenaged years.