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Article: MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE / The Black Parade (Reprise/Warner)

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October 28, 2006
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POP ROCK

ON paper, a concept album about a dying cancer patient doesn't sound like much fun, but somehow, in attempting to create Bat Out of Hell for the black-eyeliner crowd, My Chemical Romance has crafted what could be the best pop-punk album since Green Day's American Idiot.

Taking their cues from '70s arena-rockers Queen (the five-minute epic Welcome to the Black Parade is the most obvious example) and Pink Floyd, the New Jersey quintet careens through 13 bombastic anthems and power ballads ...

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