Across four iconic albums, helped spearhead the 2000s emo boom. Formed by frontman in 2001. their blend of post-goth angst, high-kicking theatrics and comic book-inspired concepts turned them into one of the biggest rock bands of the decade.
They split in 2013, but reunited just six years later to headline festivals. While there’s still no sign of a new MCR album, there’s still a trove of classic songs to delve into – and here are the 20 best. Before My Chemical Romance’s hiatus they dropped , a compilation album of 10 previously unreleased tracks.
is a haunting ballad, opening with violins and gentle acoustic before giving way to big guitars. It’s a rumination on mortality, life, and their time as a band before fading away. This fun, fast, punk track from sees Way barely catching his breath between promises of .
The first track the band wrote after , it sounds more like that record’s post-hardcore than other tracks on . plays an important role in the mythology of as the protagonist The Patient arrives in hell after a naughty life. Whispers of underpin jazzy, distorted guitars as Gerard ruminates on innocence and sin.
You can hear how much fun they’re having with being bad, bad, bad. On , ’s narrative looks back on his chaotic life. It’s the best of all eras My Chem, with the stadium energy of The Black Parade, verses that are reminiscent of and vocal embellishments that feel very .
That chorus just begs to be screamed along to. Here, My Chemical Romance are.