Fun Facts
- Gerard Way dyed his hair blonde and buzzed it off to imitate the main character of The Black Parade
- In their song "Our Lady Of Sorrows" the chorus has seven exact syllables to symbolize the seven swords she is depicted with
- The Black Parade was supposed to be the bands final album
- The demo to Welcome To The Black Parade was actually recorded in 2002, only brought back four years later for the upcoming album
- Frank Iero has been in over 10 bands after My Chemical Romance
- The band is really close friends with fellow bands Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy
- All of the band besides Frank, who still resides in New Jersey, has now moved to the west coast
- Welcome To The Black Parade used to be titled The Five Of Us Are Dying, but was ultimately changed due to Ray Toro’s superstition of speaking the title into existence
-The band stayed in the Paramour Mansion, located in Los Angeles, during the making of The Black Parade, which is known to be haunted
- Ray Toro actually plays the bass in their track Cancer off of The Black Parade instead of Mikey Way
- Gerard found out he was able to sing after playing Peter Pan in his school’s musical
- To get Disenchanted onto the album, Mikey Way would sneak into the other members’ rooms at night and whisper “disenchanted” into their ears
- Twilight started out as a fanfiction of Gerard Way
- On the early printings of their debut album, the CD would come with a warning about piracy, threatening Gerard going to the person’s house and sucking their blood if they were to do so
-Mikey Way temporarily left the band in 2006, deciding he would rejoin after listening to their track Famous Last Words, which is speculated to have been written about the night terrors that he experienced while staying at the Paramour Mansion
- The character of Dr. Death Defying featured in their album Danger Days is actually played by Mindless Self Indulgence guitarist Steve, Righ?
- Frank Iero was born on halloween
- Ray Toro originally wanted to be a filmmaker before joining the band
- Gerard Way originally wanted to be a comic artist, and actually works as one now, with “The Umbrella Academy” being his most known work
- All of their albums work as concept albums, with each one telling a story
- Frank Iero was actually the band’s first fan when they first got together, only joining when his own band split up
- The name was inspired by Ecstasy: Three Tales Of The Chemical Romance by Irvine Welsh, Mikey Way had discovered the book while working at Barnes & Noble
- The band guest starred on the children’s television show, Yo Gabba Gabba!
- Another one of Gerard Way’s works is actually Penni Parker, featured in Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse