Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is the second studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, released on June 8, 2004. This was the band's first album to be released through Reprise Records. The previous album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, was released through Eyeball Records. The album, as of October 2010, has sold 1,699,000 copies in the US. Four successful singles were released from this album: "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", "Thank You for the Venom", "Helena" and "The Ghost of You".
On their mainstream breakthrough, My Chemical Romance flash impressive hardcore, metal and goth-punk bona fides. Gnarly, thrashing riffs announce "Thank You for the Venom", while the mosh-fomenting "Give 'Em Hell, Kid" and "To the End" boast charred guitars and Gerard Way’s vocal desperation. Yet <i>Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge</i> shows an obsession with duality—lyrics contrast life and death, pleasure and pain, darkness and light. This adds thematic depth and gives mellower moments (like the Cure-esque grayscale moodiness in "The Ghost of You") room to flourish.
