In an interview with Rolling Stone in October 2011, guitarist Frank Iero revealed that new music could be out "by summer". Keep in mind that this is a debut album on Eyeball records, so sound wise the music could use some production work. The story of My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade: "When it was done, I knew that we'd created a monster" ". In September, a trailer video was uploaded to My Chemical Romance's official YouTube page titled Art is a Weapon, which announced the title of the album: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.

Writing on the band's influence, Entertainment Weekly 's Kyle Anderson stated that they "offered up spiritual solutions to real problems, and they did it with huge riffs and big theatrical stage shows, with rarely a hint of irony or detachment. His girlfriend dead, descending to Hell and he being trapped in purgatory, it's a tragic ending to a thrilling story put to bad screams and volatile instrumentals. On September 19, 2010, the band announced "The World Contamination Tour", which took place in parts of the UK, France, Amsterdam and Germany. On August 3, 2006, the band completed shooting the videos for their first two singles from the album, " Welcome to the Black Parade" and although not released until January 2007, " Famous Last Words".On I BROUGHT YOU MY BULLETS, YOU BROUGHT ME YOUR LOVE, the band's debut, My Chemical Romance shows that they don't fool around on either count. Gerard Way said to Rolling Stone, "we love bands like Queen, where it's huge and majestic, but also bands like Black Flag and the Misfits, who would go absolutely crazy. While with Eyeball Records, the band met Frank Iero, the lead vocalist and guitarist for Pencey Prep. According to Rolling Stone, the band played "somewhat of an anomaly in New Jersey's then-burgeoning pop-punk and emo scene", before achieving their breakthrough with an "instant emo classic" Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.

My Chemical Romance's music has been categorized primarily as alternative rock, emo, pop-punk, post-hardcore, punk rock, and hard rock. It discussed the suicide of a thirteen-year-old British girl named Hannah Bond, who supposedly took her life because of her involvement in an "emo cult" which the newspaper directly associated with My Chemical Romance and their fans, and their then-current album The Black Parade. In 2012 and 2013, the band released a series of singles they had recorded in 2009 under the collective title Conventional Weapons. Matt's drumming, while solid throughout and great range presented, suffers from the same problem and at times Falls into this trap of instrument clash with a string lack of editing present.

The basis for the article was a statement by coroner Roger Sykes from the investigation into Bond's death, who expressed concern that her "emo" lifestyle glamorized suicide and suggested that her obsession with My Chemical Romance was linked to her death. The Black Parade was released on October 23, 2006, in the United Kingdom and on October 24, 2006, in the United States to positive reviews. On My Chemical Romance's next album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004), the unnamed man supposedly then finds himself in purgatory, where he makes a deal with Satan: his hellbound lover for the souls of a thousand evil men. They also have noted that their lives, childhoods, books they've read and movies they've seen have influenced their music. The band's fourth studio album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, was released in 2010.

My Chemical Romance co-headlined the main stage with The Used on the Taste of Chaos tour, [221] before starting their first headlining tour, simply named the "My Chemical Romance Tour".Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority FRN 775278. My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge: The best alternative album of the century so far?