Crimson hood

"Crimson hood" entered Pump It Up PHOENIX through update 2.07.0 as one of the prize-winning compositions from the Andamiro Music Contest, the brand's songwriting competition, and it is available only in Premium Mode. For Springhead it was something of a homecoming: the track was their first work for PIU in eight years, dating back to "Clue". The music leans on a fast, rough sound, with a sprinkling of classical instrumentation layered in to give it an epic, old-fairy-tale flavor.

The composer framed the piece around Little Red Riding Hood: a girl who loses her grandmother to the wolf trains relentlessly until she becomes a warrior, then finally meets that wolf again for an unavoidable showdown. The BGA, visualized by Siesphere, reimagines all of this as a space-opera battle scene. The starships that appear are named Crimson Hood, Wolfgang and Harbringer G, a nod to the fairy-tale cast; in the action, Wolfgang shoots down Harbringer G, and Crimson Hood takes revenge by destroying it together with a massive alien object.

In PHOENIX the song offers Single charts at S12, S16, S18, S20, S22 and S24, plus Double charts at D18, D22, D24 and D26, all stepped by NIMGO. The S22 coasts along with almost no physical drain until a punishing finish: long stretches of sharp-angle twists that simply cannot be hit cleanly, forcing a mix of precise hits and smudging, which puts it at the top of the level 22 pool. The S24 follows the same shape, calm until the very end, but that finale ranks among the hardest of any S24 chart. The D26 is widely regarded as the toughest Double chart in 2024 PHOENIX: it pours out double-step patterns of every shape from start to finish and climaxes in a roughly 20-second breakdown of dense 16th-note double-step bursts that demand very fast footwork and ankle rotation, especially through the Half section, where ankle strain is a real risk.