Danger Days: The True Live of the Fabulous Killjoys, is the newest album from rock group My Chemical Romance, and may be one of their best albums yet. Danger Days is a concept album set in 2019 that follows the fictional Killjoys, Party Poison, Jet-Star, Cobra Kid, and Fun Ghoul, as they battle the evil Better Living Industries (BL/ind) in post-apocalyptic Southern California. My Chem is no stranger to concept albums, but this is their most developed and outrageous album yet. Black Parade had a more cohesive storyline, but in Danger Days we are thrown into a colorful, bizarre, and immersive world that feels oddly believable. Old My Chem fans may be dismayed and their apparent desertion of the dark and macabre and quantum leap into the colorful and punk, but true fans who have watched the band closely will not be terribly surprised by the new album. After all the guys in MCR have not changed, they were never as goth and dark as their previous work may have led listeners to believe; once you peel off all the makeup, costumes, and seemingly death-obsessed lyrics MCR's members are revealed to be massive geeks. They didn't sing about horrific deaths, tragic romances and vampires in their previous albums because they're goth or emo, but because they're obsessed with old horror movies and they watched way too much Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While many fans will see this album as a betrayal I, personally, see it not only as a refreshing change, but as the perfect album for the increasingly geeky times we live in.
For more information on Danger Days, My Chemical Romance, and the world of the Killjoys visit:
My Chemical Romance Official Site
BL/ind Official Site
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