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 Influences:Black Flag, The Misfits, Queen, The Beatles, AFI, Pink Floyd, Joy Division, The Cure, The Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine, David BowieInfluenced: 5 Seconds of Summer, Hey Violet, Lil Peep, PinkPantheress, Maisie Peters, Sleeping with Sirens, Twenty One Pilots, Carrie Underwood, The Warning, Waterparks, YUNGBLUDMy Chemical Romance (commonly abbreviated to MCR) is an American alternative rock band from Newark, New Jersey formed in 2001.Their music is best described as a mixture of Post-Hardcore, Pop Punk accessibility, horror punk-influenced lyrics and stylings, and a heaping dose of over-the-top theatrics and album rock storytelling straight out of the 1970s — all of this presented with the look of a Goth Rock band. To boot, they're often cited as a quintessential example of the emo genre (but don't tell them that — also, that's not a bad thing). They also have a notoriously bad Broken Base; enter at your own risk, but don't let that distract from the crazy-awesome music.After witnessing the September 11 attacks, Gerard Way formed the band the following day with Mikey Way, Ray Toro, and Matt Pelissier. According to Way, the track "Skylines and Turnstiles" was based on these events, which in turn influenced the themes and style of the band as a whole during their formative years.MCR released their debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love in 2002, combining elements of the aforementioned post-hardcore and emo alongside Hardcore Punk. Its lead single, "Vampires Will Never Hurt You," became a hit on college radio. Their 2004 sophomore album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge proved to be their breakthrough release, spurred on by the success of the singles "Helena" and "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)". It is now viewed as an essential album of the early 2000s emo scene for its theatrical sound, gothic aesthetics, and powerful mix of post-hardcore aggression and strongly crafted songs.In 2006, drawing on their love of Pink Floyd's progressive rock and glam rock bands such as Queen and T.Rex, the band combined their new influences with their old post-hardcore sound to create what is considered their defining work, entitled The Black Parade. While most popular rock bands of that time were focused on a raw, garage-influenced sound, The Black Parade was intentionally bombastic and excessive, reflecting the '70s rock bands that lead vocalist Gerard Way loved and the hip, indie establishment treated with disdain. Throw in a rock opera storyline of a dying cancer patient and his experiences in the afterlife, and you have a 1970s album brought to life in the 21st century. The album was a critical and commercial success, with several review sites and magazines placing it as one of the best albums of the decade.The band's next album, 2010's Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, divided their fanbase with its lighter sound and design, adopting heavy influences from Glam Rock and Power Pop along with indie rock, dance rock, and Stooges-era garage rock. It also features a storyline, but this one is more frantic, enthusiastic, and exuberant than the morbid tragedy of The Black Parade.(As noted before, "dividing the fanbase" is actually quite easy. Starting from their first album, fans were constantly arguing over anything from different themes/moods of the music to the color of Gerard's hair.)MCR announced that they had broken up as of March 22, 2013. The news proved infamously devastating to their fans; however, the members still remained close friends, and Gerard released singles featuring both bassist Mikey Way and lead guitarist Ray Toro.In summer 2016, the band uploaded a video ending with the date of September 23 of that year, and it was also found that they had deleted the tweet announcing their breakup. The prospects of a potential reunion instantaneously set the Internet ablaze. Although the video was revealed to be promo for a 10th-anniversary reissue of The Black Parade — with the band confirming that they had no touring or reunion plans — the message that they still had a place in music was loud and clear.The band privately got back together in 2017 and played a reunion show in Los Angeles in December 2019, with plans for a small tour (with Australian, Japanese, and New Zealand dates) and festival appearances in 2020 (later postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19). In May 2022, they released a new single entitled "The Foundations of Decay", which was their first song released since 2014.Outside the band, Gerard Way has a second career as a comics writer, beginning with The Umbrella Academy (he is an executive producer on the comic's live-action streaming adaptation). In the 2010s, he curated his own boutique imprint for DC Comics, Young Animal, for which he wrote the 2016 run of Doom Patrol and co-wrote Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye. He has also co-written two comics miniseries set in the world of the band's concept album Danger Days, titled The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem.Please don't confuse them with My Bloody Valentine, who are a British shoegazing band who have nothing to do with them, though Gerard admits they inspired the "My" in their band name. (The "Chemical Romance" part is a quote from the back of the Irvine Welsh novel, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.)
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