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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Audioslave

Audioslave was formed by frontman Chris Cornell of Soungarden and also Temple of the Dog.  It included Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine as well as their drummer and bassist.

Morello and Cornell are both very good musicians, but there styles did not match and none of their songs really have the value of their original bands.

Cochise is really the only good song by them that I like.

The band was from 2001-2007, and they disbanded after a disagreement in musical style, which was for the better.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Hollywood Undead

Hollywood Undead is a more recent band than the others I've mentioned.  They have two albums out as it is, and are known for wearing their masks on stage, although they do remove them during concerts.

Hollywood Undead was made by Charlie Scene, Deuce, J-Dog, J3T, Da Kurlzzz, and Funny Man.  They first made a song entitled 'The Kids' which they put on MySpace.  'The Kids' gained lots of populatiry on MySpace, and it helped them get more famous.

The six band members produced an album entitled 'Swan Songs', but had a hard time publishing it because every record company wanted to censor the album and HU didn't want that.  Swan Songs is known for songs like Undead, No.5, Young, and My Black Dahlia.  This is my favorite album by HU because it has my favorite song by them: 'City'.

Conflict between Deuce and the other 5 members of HU soon sprouted up, and after a while - Deuce was kicked out of HU.  He went off to his secondary band, 'Nine Lives'.  The other five members let Danny into the band.  Danny was an American Idol contestant, although he failed to win the show.

The band, with new bandmate Danny, went off to create a new album.  I know a few songs on the album, but the only one I like is 'Been to Hell', cause it reminds me of 'Undead' off their first album.  I don't like any of the other songs, I don't really like Danny's voice.  I don't even know the name of the album.

Their songs always have rapping in them, and the instruments are either rock-based or more hip-hop-based.  Nevertheless, they're a rap-rock band.