On the strength of tracks like the pummeling 9-11 lament “Skylines and Turnstiles,” the band quickly signed with Reprise Records. Within months of forming, My Chemical Romance had recorded and released their 2002 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love on the New Jersey indie label Eyeball Records. The two began recording demos in Pelissier’s attic with guitarist Ray Toro, and soon they brought on guitarist Frank Iero and Gerard’s younger brother, bassist Mikey Way, to fill out the lineup. They named the band after the Irvine Welsh book Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance. He quit his job and, along with high school friend and drummer Matt Pelissier, formed My Chemical Romance a week later. Way graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1999 and was selling comic books when the events of September 11, 2001, made him rethink his career path. During concerts from the era singer Gerard Way would howl from a hospital bed while the band performed in matching black uniforms. Their mass appeal owed both to the cathartic nature of their songs and the band’s sense of theatre: Their 2006 record The Black Parade, a concept album about a dying man, featured angst-y, Queen-sized choruses.
The band fused the rage of 1980s hardcore with gloomy introspection and a strong pop sensibility. Formed in 2001, My Chemical Romance played a big part in bringing emo mainstream.
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