Gadigal/Sydney-based alt-rock genre-benders RedHook are back gnashing their teeth and licking their lips on Cannibal, featuring Naarm/Melbourne metalcore titans Alpha Wolf – produced by Stevie Knight (Stand Atlantic) and mixed by James Paul Wisner (Underoath, Paramore).
Cannibal is a dark and sexy industrial metal stomper inspired by both bands’ collective vision to celebrate more sexual liberation, and particularly female sexual empowerment, in heavy music.
Vocalist Emmy Mack talks about the inspiration behind Cannibal: “I wanted to write a song that felt like Nine Inch Nails meets ‘WAP’. An empowering metal anthem that would help me smash some of the stigma and shame around sex that I felt for a long time after surviving SA. Consensual sex is one of the most awesome things in the world! And we’re beyond grateful to the legends in Alpha Wolf for backing this vision, for helping us inject more sexual liberation into the world of heavy music, and above all, for conspiring with us to create a horny metal song about oral sex that people can fuck to.”
In honour of their previous track Breaking Up With, RedHook have just announced their biggest Australian headline shows ever this August and September. The tour package is bursting with femme power, with the band to be joined by Naarm/Melbourne melodic rock force The Beautiful Monument and Mulubinba/Newcastle pop-punk stalwarts Eat Your Heart Out, with Boorloo/Perth metalcore rising stars Patient Sixty-Seven opening the night.
Emmy Mack adds: “It’s been 16 months between Soju shots, but we’re ready for a full send! We couldn’t be more excited to hit the road with this insanely good lineup (to be honest, I’m very excited for the ladies’ bathroom to be extra crowded on this tour) and hang with all our legendary fans, who are the entire reason we do what we do. See you in the saxophone circle pit!”
RedHook had a jam-packed live schedule across 2023, which saw them tour Australia supporting legendary rockers The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane’s Addiction, before completing their biggest ever, largely sold-out headline tour, which included a recording of triple j‘s Live At The Wireless at their sold-out Naarm/Melbourne show at the Corner Hotel.
Their debut record, 2023’s ‘Postcard From A Living Hell’ peaked at #10 on the ARIA Album Charts and was triple j‘s Feature Album. Their final musical offering of 2023, previous single Tourist, was embraced by triple j, Double J, Kerrang! Radio (UK), The Music and Punktastic (UK). Previous releases have also received immense support from the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, BBC Radio 1 (UK), Kerrang! (UK), triple j Unearthed, NME, Hysteria Magazine, Kill Your Stereo, MANIACS and Wall of Sound.
Cannibal, Breaking Up With, Scream 2 and Tourist are the first tastes of a larger release to be announced in the coming months.
REDHOOK
BREAKING UP WITH TOUR
Tickets available from weareredhook.com
FRI 30 AUG | UC HUB, NGUNNAWAL/CANBERRA ACT
SAT 31 AUG | THE STATION, NGARIGO/JINDABYNE NSW
THU 5 SEP | AMPLIFIER, BOORLOO/PERTH WA *
FRI 6 SEP | 170 RUSSELL, NAARM/MELBOURNE VIC
SAT 7 SEP | UNI BAR, KUWARNA/ADELAIDE SA
THU 12 SEP | KING STREET, MULUBINBA/NEWCASTLE NSW
FRI 13 SEP | MANNING BAR, GADIGAL/SYDNEY NSW
SAT 14 SEP | THE TRIFFID, MEANJIN/BRISBANE QLD
* The Beautiful Monument not appearing in Boorloo/Perth
With thanks to Good Intent
