Genres:Members:
- Emmy Mack (vocals), Craig Wilkinson (Guitar, Programming), Matt Coleman (bass, 2017-2019), Maverick Burnett (bass, 2019), Ned Jankovic (bass, 2019-), Dan Mc Feeters (drums, 2018), Alex Powys (drums, 2019-)
RedHook are a rock band from Sydney, Australia formed in 2017. The band consists of lead vocalist Emmy Mack, guitarist Craig Wilkinson, drummer Alex Powys, and bassist Ned Jankovic.
Their debut EP Bad Decisions was released on 23 April 2021. A debut studio album, Postcard from a Living Hell, was released in April 2023.
The band describe themselves as "screaming rap rock electro pop mutants", owing to their unusual combination of genres such as metalcore, electronica, and rap. Vocalist Emmy Mack and guitarist Craig Wilkinson work together to write the lyrics. Their sound has been related to bands such as Bring Me the Horizon, Twenty One Pilots, and Hands Like Houses from their "schizophrenic-style rapped vocals, bellowing screams, and soaring clean vocals".
RedHook provides examples of:
- Alice Allusion: The album ''Postcard from a Living Hell" uses this mainly as a metaphor for psychological trauma, most obviously in the tracks "Jabberwocky" (where vocalist Emmy Mack appears as Alice in the music video) and "Off With Your Head" (where she appears as the Queen of Hearts).
- Call-Back: "Scream 2" references two previous songs:
- "Cure 4 Psycho":
This is not a song, it's an insurance policy
In case the psycho there's no cure 4 comes back to finish me- And also "Jabberwocky":
And I fucking hate I let you suppourt me
The night that I met the Jabberwocky - Destructive Romance: Many of their songs are about being in a toxic relationship
- Extreme Doormat: "Soju" is about being a people-pleaser who goes along with things when she wants to tell the person to get fucked - the music video begins with her being talked into going to a party despite feeling sick. The chorus sums it up:So here's another fuck you, don't you
Tell me what to do
Too old for this shit, I quit
Taking it from fucks like you
And maybe one day, I might say it to your face
Instead of swallow it down like soju! - Final Girl:
- "Low Budget Horror" portrays the singer as this, and an online bully as the villain of a bad horror movie.
- "Cure 4 Psycho" namedrops a famous final girl:
''Sidney Prescott, bitch, I'm in this for the sequel! - Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: In "Low Bodget Horror""
Poor mental health is an excuse I can't acquit
For BEING SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT!
People like, people like you repulse me
Treating pain, treating pain like it's currency
You inflict damage 'cause you're damaged to the core
I WON'T ACCEPT IT ANY MORE!
For BEING SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT!
People like, people like you repulse me
Treating pain, treating pain like it's currency
You inflict damage 'cause you're damaged to the core
I WON'T ACCEPT IT ANY MORE!
- Also a case of Real Life Writes the Plot - As Emmy Mack put it,
“A person I’d never met before reached out over social media to give me a heads up that someone else, a total stranger to me, had been (and there really isn’t a more delicate way to put this) viciously blogging her attempts at home-wrecking my relationship.
“Then, after being confronted with what she’d been doing, the bully backtracked and blamed her actions on her mental health. I am so sick of people using mental health to justify hurting and harming others. It’s not.”
“Then, after being confronted with what she’d been doing, the bully backtracked and blamed her actions on her mental health. I am so sick of people using mental health to justify hurting and harming others. It’s not.”
- Hypocrite: In "Cure 4 Psycho":
Up there on your soapbox so damn loud,
Preaching about mental health
But the only time you give a fuck
Is when it affects yourself!
Preaching about mental health
But the only time you give a fuck
Is when it affects yourself!
- Pretender Diss: From "Low Budget Horror":
I'm Exorcist, you're Troll 2
Almost embarrassed for you
Fingerless Freddy threadbare
Not even good enough for my nightmares!
Almost embarrassed for you
Fingerless Freddy threadbare
Not even good enough for my nightmares!
- Self-Deprecation: One T-Shirt sold on their website calls them a "Fuckin' emo cliche".
- Sequel Song: "Scream 2" is a sequel to "Cure 4 Psycho", as the Youtube description states:Scream 2 is the next chapter in a painfully relatable horror story for anyone who has survived narcissistic abuse. It's about the aftermath of escaping the narcissist. Once you remove their power, they may continue trying to hurt you by whatever means remain available to them: vindictive mind games, smear campaigns, sending flying monkey's to do their bidding, weaponising your trauma against you. This is a song about refusing to let them draw more blood. And, unlike the Scream 2 movie franchise, there will be no further sequels. This ends here!
- What Did I Do Last Night?: "Bad Decisions" begins with the line "Oops, I did drugs again last night"
