How We Wrote Undead, By Hollywood Undead’s Johnny 3 Tears
By the late ‘00s, nu-metal had long since been and gone. From the grit and grime, violence and crime of Los Angeles’ meanest streets, however, a band of hustlers weren’t about to let anything as fickle as fashion dictate the direction of their sound. Fused in The City Of Angels’ curious melting-pot – where glam-metallers, wannabe rappers and very real street thugs rubbed shoulders on the daily – Hollywood Undead’s music was less a continuation of the sound benchmarked by local heroes like Korn and Linkin Park than a new strain, vividly reflecting their own gritty existence. In many ways, that existence was ugly. Lyrics like ‘Johnny’s taking heads off of all f*ggots who hate,’ aren’t the product of refined upbringing. But an ugliness was also present in a post-millenn...
