REDHOOK // Drop New Single ‘Low Budget Horror’

Don’t let the D-grade title fool ya! RedHook have slashed their way to the top with another killer number, Low Budget Horror.

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It’s easily their heaviest offering to date, featuring a mammoth blend of metal, hard rock and pop-punk. It was also self-produced by the band for the first time, mixed by James Paul Wisner (Stand Atlantic, Underoath) and mastered by Sam Guaiana (Between You & Me).

As frontwoman Emmy Mack explains: “Writing Low Budget Horror was a necessary catharsis for me after a bit of a messed-up experience I had during Sydney’s 2021 COVID lockdown. 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 & blamed her actions on her mental health.”

Mack adds: “I am so sick of people using mental health to justify hurting and harming others. This song is the sound of me processing all my thoughts & feelings around that situation–anger, shock, disgust, pity. Lyrically, Low Budget Horror is a metaphor for online bullies and the pain they try to inflict, casting their targets as victims in a gruesome public spectacle. But more often than not, it’s a pretty D-grade performance.”

Low Budget Horror follows the release of the scarily good Sentimental Surgery and their debut EP Bad Decisions. 

RedHook are set to play UNIFY this March. They’ll also appear at the rescheduled Halloween Hysteria in April and will headline the Bring Ya Mates tour in May.

Low Budget Horror is available now.

REDHOOK 2022 Tour Dates:

SOUTH GIPPSLAND // UNIFY // Saturday, 12th March
BRISBANE // HALLOWEEN HYSTERIA // Friday, 2nd April

MELBOURNE // Friday, 6th May // Max Watts
ADELAIDE // Saturday, 7th May // Lions Art Factory
SYDNEY // Thursday, 12th May // Oxford Art Factory
BRISBANE // Friday, 13th May // The Zoo
PERTH // Saturday, 14th May // Jack Rabbit Slims

Tickets available here.