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My Chemical Romance: Saviours Of The Damned

Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), November 2006

With talk of ghosts, pesky kids and freaky cartoons, My Chemical Romance's year to date could almost be a warped Scooby Doo cartoon. Although recording the new album The Black Parade exhausted the New Jersey band, the results are equal parts Night Of The Living Dead and A Night At The Opera, a fearless and spectacular creation that trounces emo pigeon-holing by adding mariachi, vaudeville and glam elements.

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