Hollywood Undead

Hollywood Undead
Hollywood Undead at Rock am Ring 2015.
General information
Genre (s)	Alternative rock , crossover , nu metal , rap-rock
founding	2005
Website	www.hollywoodundead.com
Current occupation
Lead vocals, bass	Daniel "Danny" Murillo
Rap, keyboard, rhythm guitar, synthesizer, bass	Jorel "J-Dog" Decker
Rap, bass	George "Johnny 3 Tears" Ragan
Rap, vocals, lead guitar	Jordon "Charlie Scene" Terrell
rap	Dylan "Funny Man" Alvarez
former members
rap	Jeff "Shady" Philips
Lead vocals, bass	Aron "Deuce" Erlichman
Rap, percussion, drums	Matthew "Da Kurlzz" Busek

Hollywood Undead is a nu-metal and crossover band from California .

history

Hollywood Undead was founded in 2005. With increasing popularity on the social network Myspace , the group began in June 2005 as a musical project by Jorel "J-Dog" Decker and Aron "Deuce" Erlichman , who was then "Tha Producer". They presented music on their Myspace profile. As the group grew in popularity, they joined Jeff "Shady" Philips, George "Johnny 3 Tears" Ragan, who was then "The Server", Jordon "Charlie Scene" Terrell, Dylan "Funny Man" Alvarez and Matthew "Da Kurlzz" Busek to the project that took the name Hollywood Undead. The steady growth in attention to the profile animated the MySpace manager Tom Anderson the piece No. 5 to the network's compilation album and to offer the group a contract for the Myspace label, a subcontractor of Interscope . The band made their first live appearance in August 2008 at a festival organized by Virgin Mobile . Hollywood Undead has performed alongside artists such as Foo Fighters , Jack Johnson , Kanye West and Nine Inch Nails . The band won the performance through a voting organized by Virgin Mobile , in which they achieved more than half of all votes cast.

The 2008 debut Swan Songs was released through A&M Octone Records , a Universal Music Group subcontractor. Hollywood Undead sold over 20,000 copies of the debut in just a few weeks, reaching number 22 on the Billboard 200 . A year after the debut, the band released the compilation Desperate Measures with B-sides , live recordings and cover versions via A&M Octone Records . After the compilation was released, the band received the Rock on Request Award for Best Crunk / Rock Rap Artist .

Singer Erlichman left Hollywood Undead in 2010 and was replaced by former American Idol candidate Daniel "Danny" Murillo. After appearances with Avenged Sevenfold and Stone Sour on the Nightmare After Christmas tour , Hollywood Undead released their second album American Tragedy in April 2011 . The album, produced by Don Gilmore, sold more than 65,000 copies in a short period of time and debuted in the top five on the Billboard 200. It reached number 4 on the Billboard 200, in Canada it debuted at number 5 and in the UK at number 43 Then the band played the “Revolt” tour with 10 Years and New Medicine , the “Endless Summer” tour with All That Remains and Hyro da Hero . as well as appearances at festivals such as Rock am Ring and Rock im Park .

In November of the same year the band released a remix album based on American Tragedy under the title American Tragedy Redux . Andrew WK and KMFDM, among others, contributed to the remixes. In addition, a song was remixed by a fan that was selected through a competition. In addition to other touring activities, the group began work on the third studio album. Notes from the Underground was released in January 2013. Pre-works were released in October 2012. The album was released in a standard version and a so-called unabridged version with additional material. The group instantly reached number two on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Canadian album charts.

The fourth studio album, Day of the Dead , was released in March 2015. The band returned to the studio in late 2016 to record their fifth studio album, V , also known as Five . After the contract with Interscope was fulfilled, Hollywood Undead founded their own label Dove & Grenade Media in collaboration with BMG Music Publishing to release the album. The first single California Dreaming was released in mid-2017. V appeared in October. In 2018 the group released the standalone single Gotta Let Go . In the same year the EP Psalms was released and two years later the sixth album, New Empire, Vol. 1 .

style

Cover image of the Day of the Dead album

The music of Hollywood Undead is considered a crossover style that is "more" to be assigned to Nu Metal than to genres like rap core . Reviews also refer to the music as “tailor-made Nu-Metal ready-made goods”. In reviews, for example, reference is made to Nu-Metal artists such as Linkin Park , Papa Roach , Crazy Town and Limp Bizkit . The style is particularly comparable to that of the Linkin Park group. In his review of the album New Empire Vol.1, which he wrote for Metal Hammer , Konstantin Michaely describes the group as a " chick version of Linkin Park". Jeanette Grönecke-Preuss sums up the music for Metal.de as “Linkin Park with Elektro-Gezucke ” . For Rock Hard, Thomas Kupfer discussed American Tragedy as the "light version of Linkin Park". Ronny Bittner also reviewed the album New Empire Vol.1 for Rock Hard . This "no longer looks like a light version of Linkin Park and Papa Roach, but like an inferior clone of the two bands."

The group present a "combination of rap, hip-hop and some not really hard guitars, but heavy popping grooves and sugar-sweet pop melodies".

“Also with their fourth album? Day Of The Dead ?? HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD only move on the edge of the metal or rock genre. The music of the Californian sextet is primarily dominated by hip-hop sounds, which are paired with semi-hard guitars, dance sounds and catchy, often poppy rhythms. The vocally varied singing (all band members sing) oscillates between hard rape and kitschy-sweet melodies, which one has to say has catchy tune potential. "

- Conny Schiffbauer on Day of the Dead for Rock Hard

Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2008	Swan Songs A & M / Octone, Polydor	-	-	-	UK85 silver (1 week)UK	US22nd platinum (83 weeks)US	First published: September 2, 2008
2011	American Tragedy A & M / Octone, Polydor	-	-	-	UK43 (1 week) UK	US4th gold (24 weeks)US	First published: April 5, 2011
2013	Notes from the Underground A & M / Octone, Polydor	-	-	-	UK99 (1 week) UK	US2 (8 weeks) US	First published: January 8, 2013
2015	Day of the Dead Interscope	DE34 (1 week) DE	AT65 (1 week) AT	-	UK34 (1 week) UK	US18 (5 weeks) US	First published: March 31, 2015
2017	V BMG	DE24 (1 week) DE	AT17 (1 week) AT	CH40 (1 week) CH	UK31 (1 week) UK	US22 (1 week) US	First published: October 27, 2017
2020	New Empire, Vol. 1 BMG	DE30 (1 week) DE	AT39 (1 week) AT	CH43 (1 week) CH	UK54 (1 week) UK	US125 (1 week) US	First published: February 14, 2020

Live albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2009	Desperate Measures A & M / Octone, Polydor	-	-	-	-	US29 (4 weeks) US	First published: November 10, 2009

Remix albums

• 2011: American Tragedy Redux

EPs

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2009	Swan Songs B-Sides A & M / Octone, Polydor	-	-	-	-	US124 (1 week) US	First published: November 21, 2011

More EPs

• 2010: Swan Songs Rarities
• 2010: Black Dahlia Remixes
• 2018: Psalms

Singles

• 2008: No. 5
• 2008: Christmas in Hollywood
• 2009: Young
• 2009: This Love, This Hate
• 2009: Dove and Grenade
• 2009: Everywhere I Go
• 2010: Black Dahlia
• 2010: Hear Me Now
• 2011: Been to Hell
• 2011: Coming Back Down
• 2011: Comin 'in Hot
• 2011: My Town
• 2011: Bullet
• 2011: Levitate
• 2011: Levitate (Digital Dog Club Mix)
• 2012: We Are
• 2013: Dead Bite
• 2013: Dead Bite (Dead Planets Remix)
• 2013: Another Way Out
• 2014: Day of the Dead
• 2015: Usual Suspects
• 2015: Gravity
• 2015: How We Roll
• 2015: Live Forever
• 2015: Disease
• 2017: California Dreaming
• 2017: Whatever It Takes
• 2017: Renegade
• 2017: We Own the Night
• 2018: Whatever It Takes (Remix)
• 2018: Gotta Let Go
• 2018: Another Level
• 2019: Already Dead
• 2019: Time Bomb
• 2020: Empire
• 2020: Idol ( feat.Tech N9ne )

Web links

Commons : Hollywood Undead  - Collection of Images

• Official website
• Hollywood Undead at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Corey Apar: Hollywood Undead. allmusic, accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ fiercewireless.com: Hollywood Undead Wins Virgin Mobile USA's 'Book The Band' to Capture Spot on Star-Studded Roster at Virgin Mobile Festival ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Music Sales Awards: UK US
4. ↑ Rockonrequest.com: 2009 Top In Rock Awards. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 9, 2011 ; Retrieved January 28, 2012 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT UK US
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael vom Felde: Hollywood Undead: American Tragedy. metal.de, accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Andreas Schiffmann: Hollywood Undead: New Empires Vol.1. Music reviews, accessed July 9, 2020 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Jeanette Grönecke-Preuss: Hollywood Undead: V. metal.de, accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Marcus Schleutermann: Hollywood Undead: V. Rock Hard, accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Konstantin Michaely: Hollywood Undead: New Empires Vol.1. Metal Hammer, accessed July 9, 2020 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Kupfer: Hollywood Undead: American Tragedy. Rock Hard, accessed July 9, 2020 . 
12. ^ Ronny Bittner: Hollywood Undead: New Empires Vol. 1. Rock Hard, accessed July 9, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Conny Schiffbauer: Hollywood Undead: Day of the Dead. Rock Hard, accessed July 9, 2020 .