My Chemical Romance to play entire The Black Parade on newly announced tour

We'll carry on.

By Emma Keates | November 12, 2024 | 2:05pm

Photo: Chapman Baehler

Music News My Chemical Romance

My Chemical Romance to play entire The Black Parade on newly announced tour

Now, come on, come all to this (extremely un)tragic affair. My Chemical Romance is fucking back, baby! If you’re a current or former emo kid who saw the band’s characteristically cryptic “If you could be anything, what would you be?” message on Instagram yesterday, you might already know that a completely new possibility has just been opened for you. You can now choose to be a witness to the band playing their seminal 2006 album The Black Parade in its entirety, on one of their newly announced 2025 tour stops. Suddenly, this writer isn’t afraid to keep on living or even, perhaps, to walk this world alone. Hallelujah.

Because this is MCR we’re talking about, the tour is naturally coming with its own fleshed-out concept and roster of characters (despite it not, as far as we know, introducing any new material). “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,” the band wrote in their announcement, along with a clip that looks straight out of a high-budget dystopian movie introducing said Dictator to the world. “Long Live Draag,” the message concludes, which, yeah, is a bit on the nose, but this is an album about cancer that’s pivotal song is called “Cancer.” We can forgive them their darlings.