"Cancer" | |
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Song by My Chemical Romance | |
from the album The Black Parade | |
Released | October 23, 2006 |
Recorded | 2006 |
Genre | |
Length | 2:22 |
Label | Reprise |
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Producer(s) |
"Cancer" is a rock song[2] by American rock band My Chemical Romance. It is the eighth track from the group's third studio album The Black Parade. The song was released on October 23, 2006.[3]
The emotional climax of "The Black Parade" is a piano ballad about the titular disease. The producer Cavallo plays piano on the track and said it was written in eight minutes. "It's not a poetic track. It's very direct, very brutal, but that's the way disease is," Way said in a 2006 statement. "For me it was almost like an attempt to write the darkest song ever, and I think we achieved that."