Throughout 2025 My Chemical Romance has been wowing crowds with its “Long Live The Black Parade” tour; and rightfully so. As someone who experienced the MetLife Stadium show first hand this past August, the combination of Broadway-style theatrics and a good old fashioned rock show is an experience I’ll always hold dear to my heart.
It may also force me to get several part time jobs, as the band has now announced new US tour dates – just in time for The Black Parade’s 20th anniversary next October. Before we get into the particulars though, you need to watch MCR’s new announcement video below:
Now here’s the fun part: tickets go on sale this Friday, September 26th, with the second U.S. leg coming after their international run concludes. Kicking things off at New York’s Citi Field, this 12 show addition wraps with three nights at the Hollywood Bowl, set for October 21, 23 & 24, 2026. Knowing the theatrical nature of “Long Live The Black Parade’s” A-set, which plays out in the fictional dictatorship of Draag, that is an extremely fitting venue for Gerard Way (who some may also know as the co-creator of The Umbrella Academy) and the band to potentially wrap this concept on.
For those of you who aren’t as deep in the paint as some other My Chemical Romance fans are, you’re probably wondering why I’d want to go back to see this show. Besides the obvious reason of seeing the New Jersey based band tear the roof off of wherever they go with a practically hypnotic nightmare of socio-political satire, of course. The answer to that question is simple: the lore for this world keeps changing with each show.
Dedicated loyalists have been tracking the various tweaks that have been at each venue so far, and a wider lore has been forming. Everything from the “elexicution” that sees fans vote “Yea” or “Nay” to a firing squad doing its duty, to the magazine Gerard Way reads on stage during a lull has been noted. The largest theory I’ve seen involves a time loop model, but I’ll save that discussion for another time.
People are convinced it’s all leading to an endgame, but what that is still eludes us all at the moment. For now, My Chemical Romance is taking a well earned break before picking up their instruments again. The tour will return on January 22, 2026, in Bogotá, Columbia. That means we can all put our conspiracy boards away for a little, and just relax…despite the fact that I know some people will only start digging deeper.
That Hashtag Show
