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Hollywood Undead

Rating: N


For fuck’s sake – this is the band that supposedly got close to 2.9 million MySpace hits (don’t get me started on MySpace marketing conspiracies) and 97 million plays?! In the simplest of terms, Hollywood Undead is six Slipknot-meets-emo mask-wearing MCs with a musical gimmick as shameless as their image.

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Blending distorted guitars, synth lines and throwaway hip-hopish beats with lyrical flows full of unconvincing misogyny, heartbreak and violence, all six voices resemble a near-unlistenable parody of Eminem at his most ranty and miffed. No, that doesn’t do Swan Song’s shittiness justice. Imagine every one of the worst musical moments from Insane Clown Posse, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park distilled down to an unimaginably potent elixir of shit, then multiplied by 5 million and finally used to kill babies.

Top track: Sell Your Soul

Hollywood Undead get creepy at the Phoenix, tonight (April 23)

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