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Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, performing at The Prudential Center in Newark, in 2022.
My Chemical Romance will play its 2006 album The Black Parade in its entirety on a tour that will include an Aug. 9 concert at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. Tickets go on sale Nov. 15 at 10 a.m.; visit ticketmaster.com.
The bands Death Cab for Cutie and Thursday will open. Thursday, from New Brunswick, was very supportive of My Chemical Romance, from Essex County, in the band’s early days, and Thursday also opened for My Chemical Romance when the band performed at The Prudential Center in Newark, in 2022.
My Chemical Romance’s tour, titled Long Live the Black Parade, will also include a concert at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Aug. 15, with Alice Cooper opening. (Each of the 10 shows on the tour has a different opening act or acts.)
There is approximately a week between each show on the tour’s current schedule, which suggests that dates could be added if the initial ones sell well.
In addition to announcing the tour, My Chemical Romance has released a dystopian teaser video that you can watch below, and the following message:
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
The Black Parade was the most popular of the four studio albums My Chemical Romance released between 2002 and 2010 (it has not released any since then), and yielded the hit singles “Welcome to the Black Parade,” “Famous Last Words” and “Teenagers.”
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