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The Black Parade
by My Chemical Romance


7.8

based on 24 reviews
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Official Artist Site

This highly-anticipated and highly-theatrical concept album follow's the New Jersey band's 2004 breakthrough hit 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.'

LABEL:	Reprise
RELEASE DATE:	24 October 2006
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Alternative, Rock, Emo

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

Alternative Press

The Black Parade is MCR's whole raison d'etre rolled up into one mega-decibel calling card. [Nov 2006, p.179]

100

Los Angeles Times

What makes "The Black Parade" so exciting isn't anything rock is quite used to.... My Chemical Romance expresses the next generation's quest by redrawing the boundaries of reality itself.

100

musicOMH.com

This is such a great, great record for so many reasons.

100

Playlouder

For the first time in what seems like a long time, here is an album that is going to be deservedly huge.

Entertainment Weekly

This album is not just the band's most adventurous but also its best.

The New York Times

Simultaneously brutal and hilarious, and bristling with wake-up-call urgency, “The Black Parade” may prove to be the best rock record of the year.

Blender

They've created the Sgt. Pepper of screamo.

New Musical Express

This is one to file alongside 'American Idiot', 'Doolittle' and 'Nevermind' on your greatest US rock albums shelf.

All Music Guide

It makes for a record that's their strongest, most cohesive yet, even if it isn't quite as weird or compelling as it should be given the group's lofty ambitions.

Rolling Stone

The Black Parade... is the best mid-Seventies record of 2006, a rabid, ingenious paraphrasing of echoes and kitsch from rock's golden age of bombast.

Dot Music

"The Black Parade" is a big, fat, obnoxious, difficult, overbaked concept record and it's all the more exciting for it.

Uncut

[It] sees them break out of the subculture in spectacular style. [Nov 2006, p.123]

Hartford Courant

It's a compelling record in the same way as Green Day's "American Idiot" was: Each shows a band pushing itself to grow, and succeeding far more than anyone could have reasonably expected.

Spin

It's a savage, heartfelt, at times hilarious goth-mosh emopera. [Nov 2006, p.95]

ShakingThrough.net

As with many concept albums, the concept itself gets buried beneath the show-off virtuosity, the band's ringing need to not only impress but bedazzle the listener.

The Guardian

The most bonkers album of the year, but one of the best.

Q Magazine

Fans will be baffled, but this is magnificently deranged stuff. [Nov 2006, p.147]

NOW Magazine

They've succeeded at making a good big-dumb-rock record, but you get the sense they didn't mean for it to be quite this dumb.

PopMatters

Tight as a unit, and apparently determined to create music that will, in one way or another, appeal to everyone, My Chemical Romance are in danger of forgetting that hooks, riffs, and yes, aggression, are also needed to stay on top of their game.

Mojo

Despite its bleak outlook, this is a record big on nagging choruses and arm-punching emo punk that--more often than not--aims for the mainstream artery. [Dec 2006, p.110]

Stylus Magazine

This is a goofy record of bubblegum punk, with Queen lapping at its edges and enough good tracks to justify the smattering of empty screamfests.

Village Voice

For all that sonic triumph, the lyrics feel like an empty gesture, sub–Trapper Keeper woe-mongering that'll thrill suburban teens but sounds odd coming from guys old enough to know better.

cokemachineglow

These songs contain all the accoutrements of anguish and despair: he sings the words, he screams the words. So why does it all sound so fake?

Observer Music Monthly

It reeks of a band with ideas above their station.

The average user rating for this album is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 302 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Tara J gave it a10:
Magical. Of course, this might not be someone's cup of tea.

Jake gave it a10:
Absolute masterpiece. The 'Mellon Collie' of the new millenium. For the girl who was appalled that The Black Parade was rated higher than 'Zeitgeist', have you heard 'Zeitgeist'? I loved the Smashing Pumpkins as much as anybody but when exactly did Billy Corgan forget how to write songs? I find it hard to believe that the same guy who wrote 'Today' and 'Tonight Tonight' came up with the mindless drivel that is 'Tarantula'. The Black Parade is by far the best record since Mellon Collie, only better. Mellon Collie has a few hole in it, you would be hard pressed to find a hole in The Black Parade.

rotten 777 gave it a1:
Pathetic fashion rock playing to the minds of young teens and guys who think its ok to wear makeup. Songwriting is terrible. The execution is terrible and typical of something you'd see on MTV.

Joshua M gave it a0:
Absolute pop-punk filth. Cliched lyrics, annoying vocals. Talentless, soulless schlock.

mewtwo62 gave it a9:
There is absolutely no favoritism in this album. you'll definitely find yourself listening to the whole CD straight and skipping absolutely NOTHING. this is a must buy for new time and old time MCR fans. what the hell, this is a must buy for every single alternative rock fan on the planet! three cheers for the black parade!

Cronos A. gave it a10:
This is not only the best album of My Chemical Romance, but a true masterpiece of the whole rock scene. Prejudice isn't the most accurate way to rate an album, and this happens here. It's not the fact that MCR is an emo band or not, actually Gerard Way said that emo is shit. I think it is a before and an after "The Black Parade". You may dislike it, but it's sure this album won't be forgotten for many years, instead of that, it surely be one of the albums more representative of de decade.

Heather C. gave it a9:
Not emo at all. With things like, "I am not afraid to keep on living" it is a message of hope. Sure they are... not so good live, but the message and the album is solid. Only reason why it's not a 10 is since I could live without ever hearing mama again. ugh. if they only put out that killer b-side "Kill all your friends" (pun intended).

The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

The Black Parade
by My Chemical Romance