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What would you do to see your partner again? Is death enough to separate two lovers? How many lives would you take to be with your soulmate again? This is the basis to the story that “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” tells. In this album you’re taken along the way to see the lengths one must take to see their sweetheart again after death. However, one must remember that when dealing with the devil there is always a catch.

“Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” is a concept album written in 2004 by the band My Chemical Romance. According to legend, the band’s lead singer Gerard Way was compelled to form the band after witnessing  9-11. The attack made him rethink his job in animation and pursue a passion that would ultimately influence the lives of many. All of the band’s albums have a story to tell, and Three Cheers isn’t excluded.

The story of Three Cheers is a continuation of the story told in the band’s first album “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.” In this album the two lovers run away from an unknown enemy before ultimately being gunned down in the desert. Subsequently, in Three Cheers, one of the lovers is sent down to hell without the other. There the devil gives the opportunity to see her again and all it costs is the lives of 1,000 evil men. Therefore he is given a gun and begins his journey. During his journey our protagonists questions if his lover still loves him in death or if she even loved him at all, at the same time he struggles to complete his task and falls into a deep depression because of it. Eventually he nears the end of his journey and has one more man to kill which ends up turning out to be himself. So as he reunites with his long lost love, they are sent to hell where they are separated forever.

“It’s a really angry open letter to myself,” he explained of its sentiment, as part of the band’s first appearance on the cover of Kerrang! a few months later. ”It’s about why I wasn’t around for this woman who was so special to me, why I wasn’t there for the last year of her life. Self-hate is always a big part of the lyrics. I don’t know why, but I’ve always hated myself. Hopefully that self-hate is growing into something else now; hopefully it’s grown into caring about myself and wanting to stay alive.”

Recorded in Bay 7 studios in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge was made for $200,000 – a meagre outlay by 2004 major label standards. Legend has it that Gerard would often record his vocals in his smalls because of the heat, while an assortment of porn DVDs and Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 dystopian classic, A Clockwork Orange, played in the background. The band stayed in the Oakwood area near Beverly Hills, as a deliberate ploy to remind them just how different they were from everyone else, of how the glitz, glamour and garishness of Hollywood was the antithesis of what they stood for. The experience could not have been much more contrasting to the two-week blitz they spent making their debut album back home on the East Coast with Thursday’s Geoff Rickly – less than four months into being a band. This time it was serious. And their purpose was crystal clear.

“We all felt like outcasts,” Gerard explained of the thematic spine bonding the record’s ideas. “That’s what brought us together. We thrive on conflict, opposition… everything. I’ve always felt like that. At first it was us versus New York City. Then it felt like the band vs. America. Now it’s us vs. the world."