Hollywood Undead was formed in June/July 2005 by J-Dog and Deuce (past member). All of the members have grown up in LA, California. Nowadays there are five members; J-Dog (vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer), Charlie Scene (vocals, lead guitar), Johnny 3 Tears (vocals, bass guitar), Funny Man (vocals) and Danny (vocals, keyboards, guitar). There are also three past members; Da Kurlzz (vocals, drums, percussion, left in June 2017) Deuce (vocals, left in 2009 for an unconfirmed reason) and Shady Jeff (vocals, left in 2007 because of disagreement with other members). All members wear masks and use nicknames. They are well known for their sarcastic and accurate lyrics. Some of their songs are about partying, drinking, taking drugs, girls but also about love, feelings, being heartless, having a broken heart and similar things.

The name “Hollywood Undead” was introduced by J-Dog when he and Deuce wrote a song called “Hollywood,” and at the time called the band “Undead” (this designation comes from the times when they used to call people who lived in Hollywood “undead” because they were partying all the time and that is why they thought they looked like zombies). J-Dog wrote the band name and name of the song on a small CD and showed it to his neighbor. The neighbor didn’t read it correctly, and thought that both of those words were the name of the band. J-Dog liked the way it sounded, and the name stuck.

Their first album was released on September 2nd, 2008. It was called Swan Songs and includes songs like “City”, “Black Dahlia” and “Everywhere I Go”.
Second studio album was called American Tragedy and was released in 2011. On this album, the main vocals are sung by Danny rather than Deuce. American Tragedy features songs such as “Been to Hell”, “S.C.A.V.A.”, “Bullet”.
Third album was titled Notes From The Underground. It was released in 2013. Songs from this album included “We Are”, “From the Ground”, “Outside” and many others.
In 2015 they released their fourth album entitled Day of the Dead where you can find songs like “Day of the Dead”, “Disease” or “Fuck the World”.
On October 27th, 2017 the album Five was released. The band states that it is “ their best album so far”. Some tracks on this album include “California Dreaming”, “Whatever It Takes”, “Renegade” or “We Own The Night”.