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My Chemical Romance release their second album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. This marks the start of emo as we know it.
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Fall Out Boy release platinum selling album From Under The Cork Tree. It's monumental sales thrust emo into the limelight.
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The Daily Mail print an article by Sarah Sands, branding emo a 'cult'.
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At the Reading Festival, Panic! At The Disco are bottled, as are My Chemical Romance. Lead singer of MCR Gerard Way leads a chant of "F*** The Daily Mail".
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MCR release their third album, The Black Parade, quickly becoming the biggest emo band in the world.
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MCR headline Download. The bottling they face is so ferocious that a net has to be placed in front of the stage to protect them.
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13-year-old MCR fan Hannah Bond is found dead in her bedroom. the band are branded as a 'suicide cult'.
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'Emo riots' hit Mexico. Gangs find gothic looking rock fans to attack.
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Hannah Bond's inquest comments that emo is "very disturbing'. Another article on the dangers of emo appears in The Dailly Mail.
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Russia threatans to ban the wearing of 'emo clothes' in government buildings.
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Fall Out Boy announce their hiatus.
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My Chemical Romance release their fourth album, entitled Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys.
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Threats are made against emo fans in Iraq. Many are killed.
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With more threats and killings in Iraq this year, and emo being linked to terrorism and vampirism, it's clear The War on Emo is not going to be over any time soon.
