Name: Paralysed by RedHook
Duration: 3 min 18 s
Description: Produced By Stevie Knight (Trophy Eyes, Stand Atlantic) and Dave Petrovic (Northlane, Tonight Alive) and mixed/mastered by Andrew Wade (A Day To Remember, Neck Deep, The Ghost Inside).

Produced by Stevie Knight (Stand Atlantic, Yours Truly) and mixed by James Paul Wisner (Underoath, Paramore), ‘Jabberwocky’ is an intensely personal song that addresses vocalist Emmy Mack’s experience of being sexually assaulted while on RedHook’s first ever overseas tour.

Using the metaphor of the Jabberwocky (a fictional monster from the Alice In Wonderland mythos which, in the Irwin Allen film adaptation, Alice is ultimately able to vanquish by convincing herself it doesn’t exist), the song centres on Emmy’s coping process of denying her own trauma and the monster who inflicted it in order to effectively “go on with the show”.

Menacing guitars and frenetic synths charge beneath Mack’s powerful vocals, building into a psychotic dubstep-inspired breakdown before the vulnerable chorus lyrics take centre stage.

Emmy explains the inspiration behind the track:

“As difficult as this song was to write, I felt like it was something I had to do. One of the main ways I cope when horrible things happen in life is by listening to music. But when this happened to me, for the very first time, I couldn’t find a song that resonated with what I was going through. Isn’t it strange that we’ve heard so many stories about high-profile male predators in the heavy music space over the past few years, and yet there are so few songs in the genre that deal with sexual assault itself from a female perspective? I really wanted to help change that.”

Jabberwocky

Love, Drugs & Misery

Death of Me

The Reckoning

Breakdown

Witten by Emmy Mack & Craig Wilkinson

Self-Produced by Craig Wilkinson

SAY is a heavy riffing firecracker with an irresistible vocal hook taking aim at Emmy’s experiences of misogyny in the music industry both before & after the #metoo movement. It’s a song for anyone who’s ever been made to feel like their voice doesn’t matter.

Imposter Ft. Yours Truly

Let the Sparks Fly

Let the Sparks Fly (Reignited)

Archetypes Collide

They Don’t Know

Falling with the Giants

not all woman have a womb

Produced By Stevie Knight (Trophy Eyes, Stand Atlantic) and Dave Petrovic (Northlane, Tonight Alive) and mixed/mastered by Andrew Wade (A Day To Remember, Neck Deep, The Ghost Inside).

Paralysed

Ghost Myself

Independent. Heavy/Alternative Rock
Sydney, AU.

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