Hollywood Undead is an American rap rock band from California, formed in 2005. The band members perform in individual masks in order to maintain an air of mystery. This originated from the members’ MySpace profile which they filled with pictures of themselves in hockey masks.

The band originated in 2005 from a song titled “The Kids” that Deuce and J-Dog posted on the band’s Myspace profile to positive reviews, leading them to form the group Hollywood Undead with their friends Johnny 3 Tears, Charlie Scene, Funny Man, Da Kurlzz and Shady Jeff. Shady Jeff later left, leaving the band with only six members. In their first nine weeks on MySpace they had almost a million plays and by 2006 they were said to be leading MySpace’s top unsigned artists list with over 8 million plays. By November 2008, the band had over 440,000 friends on MySpace. They made their live debut in August 2008 at the Virgin Mobile Festival after winning 285,000 votes, over half the total, in a Book the Band contest against four other bands. Their popular song “Undead” is featured on the Madden NFL 09 soundtrack and was released as an official single on August 19, 2008, making it the second single from Swan Songs. Their song “Young” is featured as one of the 20 bonus downloadable tracks in the music video game Rock Band 2. “Undead” is also featured in a trailer for the new G.I. Joe movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). Their song “Young” is also featured in a recent Velvet Assassin trailer. Currently, they are scheduled to perform Sunday, May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival.

The band spent nearly three years working on their first album. They first signed a record contract with Myspace Records in 2005 but they left the label after the label tried to censor their first album. They then signed a contract with A&M/Octone Records and their first album, Swan Songs was released on September 2, 2008 and reached #22 on the Billboard 200 in its first week of release, selling 21,000 copies. Their first album Swan Songs will be released by Polydor Records on May 18, 2009 in the United Kingdom with 2 bonus tracks.

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Tracklist :

1. Undead
2. Sell Your Soul
3. Everywhere I Go
4. No Other Place
5. No. 5
6. Young
7. Black Dhalia
8. This Love, This Hate
9. Bottle And A Gun
10. California
11. City
12. The Diary
13. Pimpin
14. Paradise Lost

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Scar Symmetry – Holographic Universe

Scar Symmetry is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Avesta. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast records.

Formed in April 2004, Scar Symmetry came together during the band Altered Aeon’s recording session at Jonas Kjellgren’s Black Lounge Studios. That same month, the band recorded a demo for the song “Seeds of Rebellion” which helped the band get a recording contract with Cold Records (a subsidiary of Metal Blade Records).

In July 2005, the band entered Black Lounge Studios to begin recording their debut album, Symmetric in Design. They followed it up by playing festivals in Europe, as well as touring with Soilwork, Hypocrisy, and One Man Army.

In June 2006, the band signed a new record deal with Nuclear Blast records. Eight months after the release of Symmetric In Design the band started recording their follow-up, Pitch Black Progress. The band again followed up their recording by touring, this time with Communic for the Waves of Pitch Black Decay Tour 2006 throughout Europe, and they toured North America with melodic death metal pioneers Dark Tranquillity and The Haunted. The song “The Illusionist” began receiving air-play on MTV2’s Headbangers Ball. In September of 2007, the band embarked on another North American tour with headliners Katatonia, Insomnium, and Swallow the Sun, the “Live Consternation Tour.”

The band’s third album, Holographic Universe, was released on June 20, 2008. Following the release, Scar Symmetry did not embark on tours and released a statement 11 September 2008, announcing that they had parted ways with vocalist Christian Älvestam, due to touring conflicts and creative differences. On 6 October, they announced the replacements for Christian Alvestam: they will continue with two singers, Roberth Karlsson (growls) and Lars Palmqvist (clean vocals).

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Tracklist :

01. Morphogenesis
02. Timewave Zero
03. Quantumleaper
04. Artificial Sun Projection
05. The Missing Coordinates
06. Ghost Prototype I (Measurement Of Thought)
07. Fear Catalyst
08. Trapezoid
09. Prism And Gate
10. Holographic Universe
11. The Three-Dimensional Shadow
12. Ghost Prototype II (Deus Ex Machina)

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