10 Darkest Albums In Rock Music History

10. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

Okay, so when you're talking about the darkest albums of all time, The Black Parade tends to be thought of as the more children friendly of the bunch. Since this is basically a macabre version of something that Queen would do, how exactly dark can the thing get? Well, if you do the deep dive, there's a lot more twisted stuff on here than you probably remember.

The concept of a man detailing his final days after given a terminal cancer diagnosis is already pretty morbid, and yet the back half of the album feels like a thrill ride through some of your greatest fears. Recorded in a haunted studio, a lot of the creepy vibes end up coming out in the music, especially on songs like Mama, which has a backing track that sounds like it could have come off of the soundtrack to a Tim Burton film.

Even though the protagonist manages to turn things around a little bit towards the end, songs like Sleep are some of the most bone chilling songs that you'll find in the emo genre, as we are painted a grim picture of a man who knows he's going to Hell and is turning himself into an absolute monster in the afterlife. Out of all the scene bands coming out in the mid '00s, this is one of the few times where they land a punch that feels genuinely unsettling.