![]() Johnny 3 Tears, growing weary of the subject, said, "It was just that he didn't like being on the road, so we would have to do things to make him happy. "We bent over backwards to accommodate Deuce", he said. "It was so bad, that I don't think there would've been another record if he was still with us", Da Kurlzz told the interviewer. ![]() Johnny 3 Tears and Da Kurlzz told the interviewer that the band had to constantly satisfy Deuce while touring. Not much was known about the situation until the subject was brought up by interviewer Bryan Stars on YouTube. They explained the reason Danny chose his name as his stage name was not because of the lack of creativity, rather than it wouldn't be logical since the original band members all got their nicknames from their past and they just couldn't imagine not calling him Danny. In mid-January, after seeing he can do just good in the studio as on shows, the band announced Daniel Murillo was an official member, going by the nickname of Danny. The band stated that they didn't want to "stoop to his level" and chose to simply ignore the controversy. Daniel Murillo was also the lead singer of the band, Lorene Drive, which is currently on hiatus due to his involvement with Hollywood Undead.ĭeuce later released a song titled Story of a Snitch against the group, claiming he was kicked out as well as that he wrote every verse and every chorus. Murillo decided to drop out of the competition and joined the band. This was not too long after Murillo had just advanced past the auditions for season 9 of American Idol. After a couple weeks on tour, the band asked long-time friend, Daniel Murillo, to fill in for Deuce's role. Hints of Deuce's departure were noticed when he did not take part in the Vatos Locos tour. In early 2010, the band announced that singer, Deuce, had left the band due to musical differences. ![]() In December 2009, the band won Best Crunk/Rock Rap Artist at the Rock on Request Awards. It peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200. The set includes a CD of previously unreleased six new songs, three of which are cover songs, as well a previously unreleased remix of Everywhere I Go, and six live recordings of songs from Swan Songs, and a DVD of a full live performance by the band. The band released a CD/DVD set entitled Desperate Measures on November 10, 2009. On June 23, 2009, Hollywood Undead released Swan Songs B-Sides EP through iTunes. They then signed a contract with A&M/Octone Records and Swan Songs was released on Septemand reached #22 on the Billboard 200 in its first week of release, selling 21,000 copies which was later on released in the United Kingdom on with two bonus tracks. They also tried to sign with Interscope Records but they wouldn't publish the songs uncensored. 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. The other two years were spent looking for a company that wouldn't try to censor the album. The band only took one year working on their debut album, Swan Songs. Swan Songs, Desperate Measures, and Record Deal (2007–2009) In interviews, they only said that Jeff was too old for the band and he wouldn't have fit in. In an interview with Shave magazine, Decker explained that when forming the band "Whoever was in the room at the time and played an instrument was in the band." Jeff Phillips later left the band after a conflict with Erlichman. They all liked the name so they went for it. They wrote Hollywood (the song's title) and Undead (the band's name) on a CD and gave it to Decker's neighbor who thought the group was called Hollywood Undead. The members referred as "Undead" to the kids in LA who were always on their way partying, looking like living dead. The Kids was originally titled Hollywood and the band's name was going to be Undead. The group soon broadened with Matthew Busek, George Ragan, Jordon Terrell and Dylan Alvarez. The so many positive reviews that they received lead them to form a group. It was originally Jeff's idea to create a heavy metal Beastie Boys type band when they were at Jorel's apartment. The band originated in 2005 from a song titled The Kids that Jorel Decker, Jeff Phillips, and Aron Erlichman posted on the band's MySpace profile.
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