Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance (2004)

Originally meant to be an extremely cohesive concept album, Revenge was slated to as a continuation of the story of 'Demolition Lovers', for their prior album.

The story goes something like this — following the death of the song's titular characters, the duo would be separated, with one in heaven and the other in hell, only able to reunite should the male partner harvest one thousand souls. The album's liner notes describes the story as "the story of a man. A woman. And the corpses of a thousand evil men".

During his murder spree, he ends up in New Orleans (Give Em Hell, Kid), participates in a Western-styled shoot-out (Hang 'Em High), and ends up in jail (You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison). After his massacres are complete, he realizes that the last person he must kill is himself, resulting in his suicide (I Never Told You What I Do For A Living).

Ultimately, due to the death of his beloved grandmother, Gerard and the band decided to shift towards making a more personal record, so the final cut only loosely follows the narrative.

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