#my chemical romance reunion tour 2022.

[velvetdestroya]

Hot as fuck during Day 1 at the Kia Forum, Inglewood, California, October 11, 2022.

[photo credit; allen schaben]

[noahnecromancy]

more school drawings

truly an academic weapon

[theyheoftheapocalypse]

when we finally get lotms 2 and when we finally hear about what went into the reunion and into tour and into gerard’s outfits

i guarantee ray toro is behind it all somehow

like he and frank had a conversation. or he encouraged mikey to say something. or he picked up a guitar first. or gerard confided in him about dresses or something. it’s ray toro it’s always ray toro my chemical romance IS ray toro

[coffeechii]

MCR SHOW 5 RALEIGH

shot by me in da pit

[mcr-fic-corner]

hi there!! it’s plague <3 i haven’t been able to post and i severely apologize!! i had so much going on, but i have the chance to now! ANYWAY, i hope you enjoy my first fic here!! >_<

gerard looked at himself in the mirror, he posed, and he posed, and he posed. they had just gotten their cheerleader costume and they put it on to see how it looked. he didn’t know how it looked, they pliked it for sure, but he wasn’t sure if it actually looked good on them.

“..mikey, does this look good?” gerard inquired as he turned to his brother. mikey looked up from his phone with a raised brow, “yeah, of course gee! it looks cute, plus it’s your style.” mikey complimented, “i mean, you look preppy. which is the look right?”

“i mean of course a cheerleader is preppy, mikey. but it’s a little more 1950’s kinda deal, like my nurse outfit.” they noted as they walked over to the mini fridge to grab a can of colombian coffee. “hey, isn’t that your third can of that coffee?” mikey commented. “oh come on, it’s not like it’s gonna kill me.. this’ll be my last one, i promise.” gerard was right about to pop it open, “gee, get some water instead.” mikey used that disappointed voice on them, gerard sighed before placing it back and grabbing a bottle of water instead. “where are the other two?”

“no clue, i think they went to get some sweets when you announced you’re getting dressed.” mikey looked back at his phone as he grabbed his can of bubbly and took a sip, gerard scrunched up his nose. mikey glanced up and held in a laugh, “oh don’t give me that look, i mean yeah they barely have flavor but come on.” mikey sighed out a laugh. “i can’t believe i didn’t raise you on good taste.” gerard shook their head as they opened the cap and chug a bit, mostly out of nervousness. “it’s alright gee, the fans are gonna love it. genuinely.” mikey reassured him, “i know… i mean i know, but there is still that anxiety..” gerard looked back at themself in the mirror, “what if this doesn't work as well as i hoped?”

“well that's silly.” gerard and mikey jumped as they turned to the door, mikey scowled at the cocky smile frank wore. ray looked just as done, but gave gerard a smile when he looked at him. “as frank said, that is silly, you look great and the fans will think the same!” the tallest member spoke up, gerard looked back at the mirror and smiled. “well let's do this then!” gerard finally decided.

♬

gerard was looking at the band on stage from behind the curtain, they loved their performance. they could hear the crowd shouting when the band called out for my chemical romance, gerard felt their stomach twist. was it anxiety? was it excitement?

“you did incredible!” gerard exclaimed to the frontman, “oh, thanks man! i really appreciate that! you’re gonna be incredible as well,” the frontman began to walk away with his bandmates, “by the way, awesome look on you!” gerard stood there as he walked away before letting a smile grow.

“are you ready?” ray inquired to gerard as they cleaners began to brush off the stage, he looked over at ray before looking out to the crowd, full stadium. “y… yeah, i’m ready.” gerard agreed, ray smiled before patting his dear friend’s back. gerard smiled back as the other two began to get prepared by tampering with their guitars, ray grabbed his guitar and looked out. gerard took a breath in before exhaling.

”alright, let’s do this.”

[olvxrw]

Hey🦇

I hope you haven't forgotten that I exist💀

I've uploaded some of my prints to Redbubble, so if you want to hang a portrait of Gerard on your wall and pretend you're the amp at an mcr show(🤭), here's the link💋

[kakarotcamp]

I still don’t know if volcano shake ‘‘em up is real or not

[velvetdestroya]

Owning the stage so hang on for the ride. Day 2 at TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, September 8, 2022.

[photo credit; emme gray]

[synthanimal]

And as the swarm it calls, we lay in the foundations...

Excited to post the piece I illustrated for @mcrswarmzine inspired by MCR's reunion tour show in Albany, NY on August 30th, 2022!

This show was my first time seeing the band since their last show at Bamboozle 2012 and it was truly one of the best nights of my life. <3

I'm so grateful to have been a small part of this project. So much love and effort went into the making of this zine and it shows. It is so meticulously crafted and considered and has so many beautiful artwork, writing, and interviews.

Digital copies are still available at their website and all proceeds will go to the charity Black and Pink.

I love My Chemical Romance and their fan base eternally ✨

[jamielovesmychem]

My big mcr5 conspiracy thread guys

All composed from what I spammed my friends with

So mcr just announced a North American tour, however some people suspect that they might be going to release another album. I also believe this due to the odd cryptic nature of the things they’ve been posting, even after the tour was announced.

For example, this picture of a dog captioned “good boy”, which was posted well after the tour was announced (16 hours ago)

There is also a new private/unlisted video on their YouTube channel which hasn’t gone public yet, just like the announcement. Unlisted videos show on the number of videos available on a channel. This just went up. It had gone up by 1 for a while before the announcement went public even when it was unlisted. (I learned this from someone in the mcr tumblr community but my screenshot doesn’t contain the account name and I can’t find it, if this is you please tell me and I’ll credit you)

On the topic of the announcement, it contained a lot of recurring characters from Gerard’s 2022 tour outfits. It is said on the promotion not that my chemical romance will be performing the black parade, but that the black parade themselves will perform. The concept of the album is that death comes for you in the form of your strongest memory, which in the patients case was a parade that was most likely ww1 propaganda, and the gap between the black parade and right now is close to the gap between ww1 and ww2. This has lead some people to believe that the band will be performing a new album set near ww2 as the black parade. The trailer shows a ww2-esque scene which would back this up.

Plus, at the end of the video there is paper falling from the sky in front of a kingdom, which might allude to The Paper Kingdom, the original, scrapped 5th my chemical romance album.

This is also slightly backed up by the odd typography used throughout the promotional of the tour, like in this post captioned “if you could be anything, what would you be?

This typography has been shown to spell out K, T and P in another script, rotated (Russian I think??) which is TPK backwards, or the paper kingdom (MCR5!!!!)

And it is not abnormal for them to spell things backwards, they’ve done that before so it’s not completely conspiracy level, like how they wrote my chemical romance backwards in the corner of the foundations of decay (their most recent single and the only thing they’ve released since the reunion).

Plus, the typography doesn’t really look like it spells mcr, suggesting they are alluding to something else.

Under an hour ago, they posted this with the caption containing “long live”.

Some people think that the new album could be performed by the characters of the black parade and called long live. If this is true then the band could even be performing as these 4 characters depicted below (like in danger days!!). However, this could just be tour promotion.

Promoting an album also takes about 2-3 months and the tour lasts about 3 months (the perfect amount of time to promote an album in!) and contains ten shows. I have seen people saying that they could even tease a track per show!!

This is all speculation obviously, however I don’t believe mcr would have a reunion just to drop one song and go on a couple of tours. I think they will drop more new music sometime soon and I’m sooooo excited!!

[livejournallegacy]

VAMPIRES WILL NEVER HURT YOU

2002 - Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken NJ, less than a month after the release of I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (August 16, 2002) 2012 - Live at Bamboozle Festival, Asbury Park NJ, at what was thought to be My Chemical Romance's last ever show (May 18, 2012) 2022 - Live at the Wells Fargo Centre, Philadelphia PA, for the first time on the reunion tour (August 29, 2022)

[godsiero]

long, sappy, emotional roller coaster about my chemical romance incoming, as someone who has a deep emotional connection and love for the black parade is dead and attended wwwy october 19th

if you had told little 12-year-old kinley ‘mychemicalromance’ pletzer (who cried in her bedroom on march 23rd, 2013 over my chemical romance breaking up), that

- at 19, my chemical romance would announce their reunion tour and she would get tickets to see them live

- at 22, they would release new music

- at 24, she would get to relive all of her lonely memories of watching, memorizing, and performing “the black parade is dead,” live from mexico city, in her bedroom all over again, but this time, live, with my chemical romance right in front of her face, along with thousands of other people (who probably did the exact same thing), i think that sad little kid would’ve thought you were making fun of her by joking about something that could never possibly happen in this lifetime.

the black parade is an album that means so much to me and a lot of other people out there on this rock floating through space. it’s a love letter, or a hate speech, whatever mood you’re in, to and about grief. mourning a person, a love, a mindset, a dream, your past self, your present self, your future self, and all of the decisions you did or did not make that led you to your grave. it’s heavy, it’s dark, it’s sad, it’s emotional, it’s haunting, it’s painful, and it hurts to listen to.

sometimes.

other times, it’s a lot of fun and an incredible masterclass on storytelling and creativity, which is probably the best reason i can think of as to why i give such a shit about this goofy band! it’s hopeful, it’s nostalgic, it’s reminiscent, it’s beautiful, it’s thoughtful, it’s loving, and it fills you with a comfort that is not unlike a hug from your favorite person.

it is filled with uncertainty and it is filled with pride. it is so heartbreaking and devastating to experience from front to back, time and time again, but i will come back to it, always. this album just graduated high school, it’s time for it to go off and see the world and make a name for itself, can you believe it? all that time spent being replayed and revisited by a bunch of sad, lonely, heartbroken kids, who didn’t know if they would ever see tomorrow, but did. maybe some of those kids didn’t see tomorrow, but this was there for them.

there are so many people i share my love for this album and this band with, and a fraction of them were there last night. i am so so grateful to have made it to this year, in this life, with this band and it’s fans, who are nothing, if not persistent and loyal. i have never felt more seen and understood by anybody more than i do by my chemical romance, and i know that sounds stupid and cliche and parasocial, but it’s true. i said this in 2022, but they have been there for me when nobody else was, when i didn’t think i would see tomorrow, when i was sad, when i was happy, when i was lonely, when i was angry, and when i just wanted to feel loved, they were there. this may not make sense to a lot of people, but they are my best friends, my brothers, my dads, my soulmates. in order to love and know me, one must, inevitably, know them, too, and that fills me with an incredible joy that has been blooming for 13 years. those 13 years have been up and down, left and right, my highest highs, my lowest lows, and everything in between, but they’ve always been there and they will continue to be there long after they’ve gone for good.

i just want to look this kid in the eyes and tell them everything will be okay. not perfect, not even great, but okay. you get through all of the bad stuff all by yourself, with no guidance at all, and i’m sorry about that, but i am so proud of you. you’re such a strong kid. you’re so much more than that, but that’s the most important part of you. i’m here for you, now, little kinley. 24-year-old, grown adult kinley does everything in their power to make you happy. you never quit this band and you will love them with the same passion and fire forever. you never let the other kids making fun of you for liking the scary music get to you. the one sparkle you never lost was this one. they’re gonna come back and you even get to see them. TWICE! something you probably never imagined, i’m sure. i love you so much, kid. i’m sorry it took me so long to figure out. you’re my everything <3

[sleepoutro]

My Chemical Romance Reunion Tour 2022-2023 set & lighting designer: AJ Pen 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

[dilemma-danger]

what's mcr

My Chemical Romance (commonly abbreviated to MCR or My Chem) is an American rock band from New Jersey. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, lead guitarist Ray Toro, rhythm guitarist Frank Iero, and bassist Mikey Way. They are considered one of the most influential rock groups of the 2000s and a major act in the pop-punk and emo genres, despite the band rejecting the latter label. Founded in September 2001 by Gerard, Mikey, Toro, and drummer Matt Pelissier (and later joined by Iero), the band signed with Eyeball Records and released their debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, in 2002. They signed with Reprise Records the next year and released their major-label debut, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, in 2004. Shortly after the album's release, Pelissier was replaced by Bob Bryar. The album was a commercial success, attaining platinum status over a year later. The success of the band's previous albums was eclipsed by that of their 2006 rock opera concept album, The Black Parade. A major commercial success, its lead single "Welcome to the Black Parade" topped the UK singles chart. The album solidified the band's following, despite negative coverage in the Daily Mail generating controversy. The band's fourth studio album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, was released in 2010. Bryar departed the band prior to the release of the album, and in 2012, they added touring keyboardist James Dewees. In 2012 and 2013, the band released a series of singles they had recorded in 2009 under the collective title Conventional Weapons. My Chemical Romance announced its breakup on March 22, 2013. In 2014, a greatest hits album titled May Death Never Stop You was released and a tenth-anniversary reissue of The Black Parade was released in 2016. On October 31, 2019, the band announced a reunion show, which took place in Los Angeles on December 20, 2019. In January 2020, they announced additional shows and a Reunion Tour, which commenced in 2022 after a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic and concluded in early 2023.

[forfoxessake]

Frank Iero On My Chemical Romance’s Legacy: “That’s A Beautiful Thing”

Discussing the new audiences who came to the band’s reunion tour in 2022, he said “That band got bigger than we were when we stopped just by being away. That doesn’t happen all the time. It’s bizarre that it still strikes such a chord with people. There was this organic growth that was happening without our knowledge, without us really doing anything. I’d like to think that is testament to the art that we put out and that it withstands the test of time and still resonates. We put a lot of work into it and I’m proud of 99.9% of everything we did. But it’s shocking to me, man.”

He continued “I remember as a kid learning about some of the bands that became my favourites, The Misfits or Black Flag, and realising they weren’t around anymore. I would get handed down these mixtapes, usually by a friend’s older sibling or it was stuff that I found in my Dad’s record collection. When you find it like that, it becomes yours, whether you were there for it or not. You live your experience through it, and that’s what’s happening with My Chem. I think that’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.”

Our new interview looks back on Frank’s entire career, from Pencey Prep to MCR, his solo work and forming L.S. Dunes. Read it inside the latest issue of Rock Sound.

Link

[slickskullshock]

Hey guys i wrote an opinion/persuasive piece on MCR who wants to read it

Why My Chemical Romance is Almost Certainly Planning an Album Release

Based on the collective evidence many fans have gathered, the band that seems to be the center of emo music and culture, My Chemical Romance will release their fifth studio album on November 13, 2025. The members’ cryptic personal and social media behavior surrounding past releases, as well as their recent behavior surrounding the announcement of the “Long Live The Black Parade” stadium tour, among other things, present strong evidence for the dream of many long-time fans to come true: MCR5 will happen.

My Chemical Romance has always been a band that uses the creative, story-telling minds of its members to hide deeper meaning in every public interaction. During an obscure interview in the early 2000s, Gerard said he wanted to follow the same path as one of his and his brother Mikey’s favorite bands: The Smashing Pumpkins. Be together for twelve years, break up, then reunite six years later. My Chemical Romance formed in 2001, then broke up twelve years later in 2013, and then announced their reunion six years after that in 2019. At some point, the band had talked about how they wanted their future timeline to go, seeing as the prophetic interview came true. The band also mentioned, in a 2011 interview about their newly-released album Danger Days, that MCR5 was already “in the works.” Thirteen years of near inactivity surely gives them enough time to finish–or even rework and rewrite–an album.

My Chemical Romance had always been one for playing characters onstage, sometimes even to the point of cosplaying their own creations. During MCR’s most recent tour, the Swarm tour, Gerard wore many elaborate costumes (as per usual). The outfits seemed random on their own, but when put next to each other, have a cohesive feeling, as if they were pieces in a designer collection or characters from a story. This type of expression through fashion is not a new thing for the band, and especially not for Gerard, as we see in many of his comic books that his characters are often very unique in their sense of style. In the newly released video “Long Live,” there is a character that the MCRmy has dubbed “The Secretary” due to the fact that Gerard wore the same costume, which he called the by same name, in 2022. Likewise, the appearance of the video character “The Dictator” wears a similar outfit to Gerard’s red, World-War-II-esque military outfit that fans are now calling by the character’s name. The similarity between the singer’s tour costumes and the costumes of the video characters lead many fans to believe that this new lore has been planned since at least 2022.

In the beginning of “Long Live,” the Dictator says something in another language to his guards. There are subtitles on screen, however they don’t give insight as to what the Dictator might be saying because they are in a mysterious and cryptic made-up language with a made-up alphabet. A linguist was mentioned in the credits. Considering that both Gerard and Mikey Way have written graphic novels with fictional languages, it seems unlikely that MCR would work with a linguist if they only intended to use the alphabet for the videos and the tour.

In addition to working with a linguist, it seems doubtful that the band would create new characters and new lore for, as well as tour for, an album that is only eighteen years old. That is not a significant anniversary, like twenty or thirty years would be. Many fans think that this new information and new tour for The Black Parade is hinting at some kind of not-yet-announced album. This amount of preparation and storytelling is simply too much for just a tour.

Finally, in the caption of Long Live, the band writes, “...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.” This in-character statement is obviously alluding to “The Black Parade” as the characters that My Chemical Romance played onstage in the late 2000’s, not the album itself. Though, if one does decide to take the time and count the days, (and of course if they have done a quick Google search to find out when the last Black Parade show was), they will find that, as of right now, it has not yet been six thousand two hundred and forty-six days since October 7th, 2008. As of November 24th, 2024, it has only been five thousand eight hundred and ninety-two days. So, when is six thousand two hundred and forty-six days since October 7th, 2008? November 13th, 2025. Which happens to be exactly one year after their first tour announcement video “Long Live" was released.

My Chemical Romance’s fifth studio album will be released on the 13th of November in 2025. The slight, nearly unnoticeable details and clues the band has carefully left for fans to piece together have finally started to create a bigger picture. The costumes, the characters, the mysterious numbers, and the never-ending, puzzle-solving minds of fans have begun to take the shape of something new. Something millions of people have wanted for years: New music from My Chemical Romance.