![]() ![]() ![]() In perfect honesty, if you were to pick the finest songs from the band’s star-studded catalogue, very few tracks from Bullets would make the grade. The music itself shows shards of the avant-garde edge that would define their legacy but here it gets pulverised and has its lunch money stolen by thrashy guitars and up-the-punx pace, channelling the unstoppable, immovable passion the guys had for the band they had just formed. Gerard may have gone on to master harnessing intensity in his vocal performances, but here it’s all wild-eyed insanity and frenzied delivery. The sound of the album perfectly mirrors their story up to this point in that it’s pure chaos. “If you were going to mock them, you were just feeding into what they were doing. “My Chemical Romance never had any interest in being cool – they were about doing something interesting and fun,” he explained to NJ.com. He understood where the band were coming from, both sonically and conceptually – from eyeballs to entrails. Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly was a natural choice to produce the band’s debut effort, having already garnered a reputation in New Jersey through putting on shows by the likes of Glassjaw and The Movielife. If this all seems like it happened at a thunderous pace, bear in mind that My Chemical Romance had completed their line-up and begun recording an album within just three months of deciding to start a band. Gerard’s brother Mikey joined the band, and in the aftermath of his band Pencey Prep’s split, Frank Iero joined the gang just two days before they were due to begin recording. The trio spent their time honing their attack and beginning to form the nucleus of their sound during intense recording sessions in Matt’s attic. Ray Toro joined to assist Gerard who, by his own admission, couldn’t play guitar and sing at the same time. Crackling with youthful exuberance and by far and away the most raw thing the band ever put their name on, what Bullets lacked in the conceptual depth the band made their forte on future releases, it more than made up for in pulsating, electric energy.Īfter Gerard and original drummer Matt Pelissier decided to form the band in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, MCR’s inception was something of a whirlwind. ![]() Here, we go through those albums one by one and dissect MCR's influence and impact.Īnd so the story begins. Their popularity only grew in the years following their split the hysteria that has met their recent reunion testament to their enduring legacy. ![]() But with those records, they captured the imagination of a frustrated generation and swiftly became a globe-conquering phenomenon. MCR only recorded four studio albums – and two live albums – before their split in 2013. After his group disbanded in 2002, Iero decided to become a full-time member of My Chemical Romance – a move that would set MCR’s trajectory alight. On their first show they had supported another Eyeball Records band named Pencey Prep and their frontman, Frank Iero, had made a big impression. Now MCR were almost ready to launch themselves on the world, but there was just one piece of the jigsaw missing. All singles were pressed in a different color of vinyl.This ambition impressed Thursday frontman and fellow New Jersey resident Geoff Rickly who, after doing some local gigs with MCR around Jersey, signed the band to his label, Eyeball Records. The final single, Number Five, was shipped along with a box to house all five individual releases, along with an exclusive poster. The 7-inch vinyl singles were packaged in five different picture sleeves each depicting a different type of weapon. Each release was made available for individual purchase, but all five were also offered collectively as part of a limited-edition box set available for pre-order through the official My Chemical Romance online store. The album consists of ten unreleased songs that were recorded in 2009, prior to the making of the band's fourth studio album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.Ĭonventional Weapons was released as a series of five colored double A-side singles accompanied by digital downloads. On September 14, 2012, Frank Iero announced the project through the band's official website. It marked the band's final release of studio material before their break-up from 2013–2019. Conventional Weapons is a compilation album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, produced by Brendan O'Brien and released as a series of singles between October 2012 and February 2013. ![]()
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