On their mainstream breakthrough, My Chemical Romance flash impressive hardcore, metal and goth-punk bona fides. Gnarly, thrashing riffs announce "Thank You for the Venom", while the mosh-fomenting "Give 'Em Hell, Kid" and "To the End" boast charred guitars and Gerard Way’s vocal desperation. Yet Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge shows an obsession with duality—lyrics contrast life and death, pleasure and pain, darkness and light. This adds thematic depth and gives mellower moments (like the Cure-esque grayscale moodiness in "The Ghost of You") room to flourish.