Album of the Day

After witnessing the World Trade Center fall on this day in 2001, singer Gerard Way and drummer Matt Pelissier were inspired to start My Chemical Romance. The New Jersey band rose to fame with the dark and dramatic THE BLACK PARADE but wanted to try something new for its 2010 follow-up. DANGER DAYS: THE TRUE LIVES OF THE FABULOUS KILLJOYS is also a rock opera - about a post-apocalyptic gang battling an evil corporation - but with invigorating power pop and electronic influences that will surprise MCR fans. Co-produced by Rob Cavallo, the album topped both Billboard's Rock and Alternative charts driven by such singles as “The Only Hope for Me Is You” and “Planetary (Go!).” Allmusic hailed the Gold-certified DANGER DAYS as “crystallized fun, the purest rush My Chemical Romance has ever delivered.”