Wearing masks and making music successfully: Hollywood Undead from California have been doing just that since 2005, a combination that doesn't just work for the likes of Slipknot. On fan shirts and other Hollywood Undead merch the six band members are each displayed with their individual masks. However, the beginning was anything but easy for Hollywood Undead: Their first record label MySpace Records wanted to intervene too much with the songwriting of the first record SWAN SONGS (2007) which later led to Hollywood Undead leaving MySpace Records and for two years after they had to search for a new partner that wouldn't censor their lyrics about sex, alcohol and emo kids. Soon they found A&M Octone Records, the label who wanted to work with "the gang", as Hollywood Undead refer to themselves. With their mix of rap and nu metal on their record NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND (2013) Hollywood Undead made it to #2 in the US charts, their latest record DAY OF THE DEAD (2015) made it to #18.
