To celebrate the release of fourth album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, emo standard bearers My Chemical Romance used their recent metamorphosis into the action heroes of a fully-realized comic book universe to trick out LA's House of Blues as a skewed MCR-branded carnival, complete with midway games and costumed video villains wandering the parking lot.

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Band thunders through fierce set in Los Angeles.
By James Montgomery

"How are you tonight?" flame-haired frontman Gerard Way panted, five-songs into his band's set, which was streamed live on MTV.com from the House of Blues on Monday night. "We are My Chemical Romance and it's very amazing to be back."

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Timeless rock bands are like superheroes.

There's mystery surrounding them. They're larger than life. They can open up new perspectives. They have the power to save the world. Led Zeppelin thrived on that mysticism, while Queen effectively brought bombast back. Pink Floyd treated everyone to the ultimate space trip, and The Who made the world a better place.

My Chemical Romance wielded sonic superpowers all their own during their triumphant release show for Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys last night at the Sunset Strip House of Blues.

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Album-release concert will stream live on MTV.com starting at 10 p.m. ET tonight!
by James Montgomery

HOLLYWOOD — My Chemical Romance went to the brink and back to make their new album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. So, as you can probably imagine, on Monday (November 22) — the day Killjoys hit stores — they were in the mood to celebrate.

And how did they go about doing that? By buying their album, of course.

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