Conventional Weapons

Conventional Weapons is a compilation album by the American rock band My Chemical Romance comprising five singles released between October 2012 and February 2013. Created in 2009 with Brendan O'Brien serving as producer, it was planned to be released as the band's fourth studio album as part of their initial vision to create a "straight-ahead rock 'n' roll record" that had no story or characters. As the band worked more on the album, they became increasingly dissatisfied with the result, and eventually scrapped it in favor of Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010). In late 2012, the band decided to release ten songs from the scrapped material from Conventional Weapons over the course of a few months. When the release cycle concluded on February 5, 2013, a box set containing all five singles was released through Reprise Records. The songs from Conventional Weapons vary in genre and themes, ranging from punk-sounding tracks to power ballads. One month after the release cycle for Conventional Weapons concluded, My Chemical Romance broke up, making it their final release as a band until their 2019 reunion.