#I hyperfixated on mcr as a teen I know so much useless trivia

[athetos]

Honestly it’s no wonder my chemical romance broke up when they did. Making the Black Parade was a traumatic experience for everyone involved, as they recorded in a haunted studio and had mental breakdown after mental breakdown; they then proceeded to tour nonstop in heavy, disgustingly sweaty uniforms; they were accused of starting a suicide cult by the daily mail and blamed for a teen’s death; they then wrote an entire new album and scrapped it because it wasn’t good enough and the members couldn’t decide on a direction (those songs would later be released as Conventional Weapons); put out danger days and toured again nonstop, all while the members had various other side projects; like, if they didn’t break up, they would have beaten each other unconscious in the back of a van at that point.

What IS surprising to me is that they not only did they reunite, but that they put out a song quietly, with no fanfare, that somehow managed to be one of their best tracks yet, becoming one of the only (if not the only; that’s subjective for sure) reformed ‘00’s ‘emo’ bands that actually stands a chance of crafting albums just as good as their first ones.