J-Dog is one of the six current members of Hollywood Undead.

Jorel Decker was born in Los Angeles, California on May 1, 1984. His mother was, as J-Dog describes “a hippie” and his father was a truck driver, and insisted on Jorel becoming a truck driver later on in life as well. He first met future band mate Johnny 3 Tears when he was very young, but they didn’t like each other when they first met.

He grew up with Deuce and hung out regularly with Charlie Scene’s older brother, Jake Terrell.

His first musical interest was when his mom took him to see the British band “The Who” live when he was 13, and it motivated him to start making music, and the bass player of the band specifically made him have a particular interest in playing bass.

He also never went to high school or college and was never really “schooled” by his parents due to his mother’s disapproval of the public school system.

During his teenage years, Jorel wanted to be in a gang, and started hanging out with several members of gangs. Eventually his parents sent him away to a reform school in New Mexico to spend time away from the gang violence and nature of Los Angeles. His father also eventually started working there since his family couldn’t afford it. When asked about living there, Jorel stated “I hated it at the time, but in retrospect after I left there I realized that really saved my life.”

He was at the reform school for a year, before graduating the program only to be sent back two years later.

After he got out of the reform school, he started playing in several bands, some of which his future Hollywood Undead bandmates were present in as well.

One of his later bands was The Kids, which initially started out as a project with his lifelong friend Aron “Deuce” Erlichman and friend Jeff Phillips. The band went on to become Hollywood Undead, with Jorel being the only remaining founding member.

Around 2008, his brother, Evan Decker committed suicide. Jorel was deeply effected by his loss, and wrote the song The Loss about him.

On May 2, 2015 he became engaged to his longtime girlfriend Vanessa James onstage at the Carolina Rebellion.

On November 5. 2016 Jorel married Vanessa James.

J-Dog plays the most instruments out of the band, he plays guitar, bass, keyboard, and synthesizers. He can also play the drums, but does not do it for the band.

Upon creating his mask, J-Dog found a dollar bill next to him. He put it on his mask to make it unique.

J-Dog often provides the most aggressive lyrics for the band. When he raps, his lyrics are about dying, love problems, stronger thoughts, and violence. On occasions, most commonly in older songs, he’ll sing about partying and girls, however this hasn’t been done recently, with J-Dog being absent from major parts on all party-themed songs in Notes from the Underground and Day Of The Dead other than Up in Smoke and Guzzle, Guzzle.

J-Dog’s favorite songs from the band are Hear Me Now, Been to Hell, S.C.A.V.A. and Outside. His favorite from Day of the Dead is Usual Suspects, mostly because of its music video. War Child is his favorite song to perform.