Wake Frank
Turn it up
Out of the ground. Into the pit. The debut single from FRANK of Dunhollow.
A CreativeDNA release
Music video: 12 Oct, 8 am Sydney / 11 Oct, 5 pm New YorkThe music video.
Music video: 12 Oct, 8 am Sydney / 11 Oct, 5 pm New York
About the track
The audience is dead. The band is live.
“Wake Frank” is the debut single from FRANK of Dunhollow, the band at the heart of the animated world of FRANK. Industrial rock and gothic horror collide in Dunhollow—a city where the living and the dead share the streets, and the underground belongs to the dead.
At the centre stands Frank: a creature built as a weapon, now holding down the bass alongside vampire frontman Laz Volt, guitarist Stitch and drummer Crash Wilder.
Out of the ground. Into the pit.
The world behind Wake Frank
Below the rain-soaked streets of Dunhollow lies The Crypt. Beyond its skull-shaped entrance, the dead gather beneath red lights. The rule on the door is simple: no living allowed.
Onstage, there is one exception.
Stitch is the band’s only living member—a guitarist whose talent earns him a place in a room that would otherwise turn him away. Laz Volt commands the crowd. Crash Wilder keeps time. Behind them, massive and almost motionless, Frank anchors the band on bass.
Frank was created for violence. Music became part of his life through the boy he raised. When Stitch needed a band, Frank picked up the bass. For a creature who believes himself incapable of feeling, it is a revealing choice.
“Wake Frank” is the first release from this world. The music offers a way into its characters before their larger story unfolds in the animated series: a city divided between living and dead, a band that crosses that divide, and a creature finding a place he was never built to occupy.
How the track was made
Darren Kirk on making the track:
“I generate multiple takes in Suno, picking out my favourite vocals, riffs, choruses and breakdowns. Sometimes one take has a great verse and another has the chorus I’m after.
I bring those takes into Ableton Live, cut up the parts I like best and rearrange the track. That lets me bring those moments together instead of settling for one version.
Then I put the assembled version back through Suno as a cover to help smooth out the joins and bring it all together.
Finally, it’s back into Ableton Live for mastering.”
Credits
Created by Darren Kirk (CreativeDNA).
Arrangement, audio editing and mastering: Darren Kirk.
AI music generation and cover processing: Suno.
Audio editing, arrangement and mastering software: Ableton Live.
Music video created using OpenArt.
Released 11 October 2026.
Label: CreativeDNA.
Lyrics
Verse 1
Wake found me in the back room
Underneath the floor
I wiped my hands to heaven
Nailed my name above the door
Every sky's a scripture
Every stitch a lie
Every little voltage kiss
To start the dead to rise (rise, rise, rise, rise)
Chorus
Wake, Frank! Let the dead boy sing
Wake, Frank! Hear the church bells ring
I was made from the pieces you buried in the dark
Wake, Frank! Now I'm coming for your heart
Now I'm coming for your heart
Verse 2
The surgeon wears a white coat
With blood beneath the cuff
He says that love is just a circuit
And hate is not enough
The base tastes like a body
Deep beneath the ground
The drums keep punching forward
Like a coffin kicking out (out, out, out, out)
Bridge
No mother, no maker, no grave deep enough
No father, no savior, no god in the blood
Outro
Wake, Frank! Let the dead boy sing
Wake, Frank! Hear the church bells ring
I was made from the pieces you buried in the dark
Wake, Frank! Now I'm coming for your heart