10 Best Third Albums In Rock And Metal History
8. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
The Black Parade solidified My Chemical Romance as one of the biggest rock bands of their generation and announced that emo was now fully in the mainstream.
The album is a rock opera, charting the journey of a man passing from this life to the next. Its themes of life, death, memories, and love all resonated with the youth of the mid-2000s and The Black Parade quickly became a must-have for rock fans young and old.
Songs like "I Don't Love You", "Dead!", and "Teenagers" all became anthems, and who could forget the band's opus - the phenomenal "Welcome to the Black Parade".
The album crashed into the top five on album charts all over the world, including placing second in the US and UK. In the latter country, "Welcome to the Black Parade" managed to top the singles charts, a feat unheard of for an alternative rock band at the time.
With music and iconography that are still popular today, The Black Parade has more than stood the test of time and proves that, no matter how hard the world may try, emos just never die.