Formed in a makeshift studio in the heart of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Hatchets For Hands is the studio project of musician producers Brian Parks and Cullen Poythress. Driven by a mutual obsession for authentic musicianship and heavy metal, the band takes cues from many styles within the genre—nodding elements of early American thrash, grind, and traditional death to the soaring leads and infectious melodies akin to Northern Europe's melodic death metal exports. Hatchets have been featured by Revolver, Decibel, Metal Injection, Spotify Tattoo, Ghost Cult Magazine and many others. The duo released their debut EP ‘Convulsions of a Dying Empire’ on May 11th, 2018.