NEWS 2021/06/09
This is the original Kerrang! review of Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge from 2004. Love and death: sometimes intertwined, often pitted against each other; the two central tenets of 19th century Romantic poetry and horror B‑movies of the 1950s. Two backgrounds from which New Jersey rising screamo stars My Chemical Romance draw upon heavily on this highly-anticipated second album – available on import now ahead of its official UK release in September. Like AFI and Alkaline Trio before them, My Chemical Romance are punks with a fascination for all things gothic. Led by charismatic Christina Ricci-look-alike Gerard Way and named after Irvine ‘Trainspotting’ Welsh’s book Ecstasy: Three Tales Of Chemical Romance, these black-clad upstarts have, with TCFSR perhaps created the perfe...
Nightmare
2010 release, the fifth album from the Alt-Metal outfit, produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem) and mixed by noted engineer Andy Wallace. The album is the first from the band without drummer James the Rev Sullivan, who passed away in December. Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy plays drums on the album. Over the years, Avenged Sevenfold has built a fanatical fan base that includes more than one million fans on Facebook. They have also attracted 93 million plays on MySpace.