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MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
"LONG LIVE": THE BLACK PARADE
NORTH AMERICAN STADIUM TOUR
July 11th - September 13th, 2025
By Curtis Newart
February 1, 2025
My Chemical Romance (MCR) is set to embark on a North American stadium tour, featuring alternating special guests Alice Cooper, Violent Femmes, Garbage, Evanescence, Death Cab for Cutie, Pixies, Devo, 100 Gecs, Wallows, Thursday, and IDLES.
The 10-city tour is scheduled to start on July 11th, 2025, in Seattle, Washington, and end on September 13th, 2025, in Tampa, Florida.
From the band:
"It has been seventeen years since The Black Parade was sent to the MOAT. In that time, a great Dictator has risen to power, bringing about "THE CONCRETE AGE”; a glorious time of stability and abundance in the history of DRAAG.
His Grand Immortal Dictator wishes to celebrate our rich and storied culture, fine foods, and musical entertainments by welcoming you to these great demonstrations of power and resolve. And lending voice and song for the first time in six thousand two hundred and forty six days, their work privilege ceremoniously reinstated, will be His Grand Immortal Dictator's National Band... The Black Parade.
Long Live Draag"
MCR is a rock band formed in Newark, New Jersey in 2001, by vocalist Gerard Way, drummer Matt Pelissier, bassist Mikey Way, and lead guitarist Ray Toro. Frank Iero joined later, on rhythm guitar.
My Chemical Romance (L to R): Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Gerard Way, and Ray Toro (Photo credit: Devin Sarno)
My Chemical Romance (L to R): Ray Toro, Mikey Way, Gerard Way, Frank Iero, and Matt Pelissier (Photo credit: Justin Borucki)
Their music style has been described as alternative rock, punk rock, glam, post-hardcore and emo. The band has steadfastly rejected the emo label after attacks by the Daily Mail (UK) accusing the band of promoting self-harm.
MCR stated, “My Chemical Romance are and always have been vocally anti-violence and anti-suicide. As a band, we have always made it one of our missions through our actions to provide comfort, support, and solace to our fans."
Their indie debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, was released in 2002 on Eyeball Records.
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
In 2003, they signed with Reprise Records and released their major-label debut, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, in 2004. Shortly after the album's release, drummer Pelissier was replaced by the late Bob Bryar. The album was a commercial success, currently 3x Certified Platinum.
The album contains the Platinum hit "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)", the Gold-certified "Helena", "The Ghost of You", and the UK hit "Thank You for the Venom".
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
My Chemical Romance - Helena [Official Music Video]
Their 2006 rock opera concept album, The Black Parade was a huge success, ranking number one on the Billboard US Top Rock Albums chart, and the UK Rock & Metal Albums chart.
The album is certified 4x Platinum in the US, 3x Platinum in the UK, 3x Platinum in New Zealand, Platinum in Australia, Canada, Ireland and Japan, plus Gold in Chile, Italy and Mexico.
Rolling Stone named the album as #20 of the 50 Best Albums of 2006, and #361 of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020).
My Chemical Romance
The lead single "Welcome to the Black Parade" reached number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number one on the UK Singles Chart. MTV named the music video for "Welcome to the Black Parade" the "Greatest Music Video of the Century" in 2017.
The second single, "Famous Last Words", cracked the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, at #88, and hit number one on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart.
"I Don't Love You", the third single, was certified Gold in the US. "Teenagers", the fourth single, hit #67 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Black Parade centers around the death of a young cancer patient.
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade [Official Music Video]
My Chemical Romance - "Welcome to the Black Parade" and "Cancer" on Saturday Night Live (October 21, 2006)
My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words [Official Music Video]
MCR performed The Black Parade album in its entirety as the pre-game show for an NFL game at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on October 31, 2010, between the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers.
My Chemical Romance
Drummer Bryar left the band in March 2010, prior to the release of the band's fourth studio album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys later that year.
Danger Days is a rock opera starring the fictional Killjoys, a group of rebels living in a post-apocalyptic California in 2019.
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days Intro
My Chemical Romance - Interview Pt. 1
In 2013, Way co-wrote a limited series of comic books called The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, to serve as a sequel to the album.
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Between October 2012 and February 2013, MCR released five singles, ultimately compiled with five additional unreleased tracks to form the album Conventional Weapons.
The album was presented in the form of a 7-inch vinyl box set containing five vinyl records of separate colours, with one song per side. Each record sleeve portrayed a different weapon. The work would be MCR's last album prior to their breakup on March 22, 2013.
My Chemical Romance - Conventional Weapons
My Chemical Romance - May Death Never Stop You
Track Listing:
1. Fake Your Death
2. Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us
3. Vampires Will Never Hurt You
4. Helena
5. You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison
6. I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
7. The Ghost of You (extended outro edit)
8. Welcome to the Black Parade
9. Cancer
10. Mama
11. Teenagers
12. Famous Last Words
13. Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) (single version)
14. Sing
15. Planetary (Go!)
16. The Kids from Yesterday
17. Skylines and Turnstiles (demo version)
18. Knives/Sorrow (demo version of "Our Lady or Sorrows")
19. Cubicles (demo version)
May Death Never Stop You | "Famous Last Words"
On September 23rd, 2016, MCR released a 10th anniversary reissue of The Black Parade album titled The Black Parade/Living with Ghosts. The reissue includes the original album, plus an album of unreleased demos and live tracks from the initial recording of The Black Parade.
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade/Living with Ghosts
On December 20th, 2019, MCR performed a reunion show with all original members (except Pellissier), at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.
They launched the Reunion Tour in May 2022, with dates in North America, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan.
Inglewood, CA - October 11/22: My Chemical Romance lead vocalist Gerard Way performs at the Kia Forum (Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
My Chemical Romance "Long Live": The Black Parade Tour
My Chemical Romance US Stadium Tour 2025
JULY
11 – Seattle, WA – T-Mobile Park, Special Guest: Violent Femmes
19 – San Francisco, CA – Oracle Park, Special Guest: 100 Gecs
26 – Los Angeles, CA – Dodger Stadium, Special Guest: Wallows
AUGUST
2 – Arlington, TX – Globe Life Field, Special Guest: Garbage
9 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium, Special Guests: Death Cab for Cutie and Thursday
15 – Philadelphia, PA – Citizens Bank Park, Special Guest: Alice Cooper
22 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre, Special Guest: Pixies
29 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field, Special Guest: Devo
SEPTEMBER
7 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park Special Guest: IDLES
13 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium Special Guest: Evanescence
My Chemical Romance (L to R): Ray Toro, Mikey Way, Gerard Way, Frank Iero, and the late Bob Bryar (Photo credit: Naki/Redferns)
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The Black Parade album (with D-Side Etching) [2LP Vinyl]
Curtis Newart is a Gen Xer who grew up listening to 80s music in cowboy country.