 "The Black Parade" has received generally favorable reviews.At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 24 professional critic reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".Dan Martin from "NME" compared the album to Green Day's "American Idiot", positing that "it's a piece of work that will challenge every preconception you ever had about the people who made it."