Long Live The Black Parade Tour

Long Live The Black Parade^[a] is an upcoming concert tour by the American rock band My Chemical Romance in celebration of their third studio album, The Black Parade (2006). It is set to begin on July 11, 2025, in Seattle, and conclude on May 3, 2026, in Jakarta, with a total of 27 shows throughout North America, South America, and Southeast Asia. During the tour, the band will play The Black Parade in its entirety.

The tour was first announced in November 2024 following the band's performance at the When We Were Young festival, where the band played The Black Parade in full for the first time since 2007. It was initially announced as exclusively a North American tour with ten total dates, with South American and Asian dates announced later in 2025.

My Chemical Romance released their third studio album, The Black Parade, in 2006.^[2] It was supported by a concert tour that began on February 22, 2007,^[3] where the band would play the album in its entirety^[4] as the "Black Parade", an alter-ego band that the album was named after.^[5] They played as the Black Parade alter-ego until October 7, 2007, when the alter-ego was killed off.^[6] On October 19 and 20, 2024, My Chemical Romance headlined the When We Were Young festival, where they performed The Black Parade in its entirety for the first time since 2007.^[2]

My Chemical Romance announced Long Live The Black Parade on November 12, 2024. Initially, ten shows across North America were announced, spanning across 2025,^[2][7] with most of the shows taking place at Major League Baseball stadiums.^[7] During the tour, My Chemical Romance is set to perform the entirety of The Black Parade, with each date having a unique opening act (e.g. Evanescence, 100 gecs).^[8][9] Due to high demand, the band had to schedule a second date in Los Angeles after tickets went on sale.^[10]

In May 2025, the band announced a show in Mexico City on February 13, 2026, officially advertised as "The Black Parade – Alive!".^[11] A second show in Mexico City taking place on February 14 was announced a few days later.^[12] In June, the band announced a series of dates throughout South America.^[13][14] Dates throughout Southeast Asia were announced in July.^[15]

To promote the tour, My Chemical Romance released a series of teasers and trailers with cryptic meanings, sparking fan debate and speculation.^[16][17] On the day before the initial announcement of the tour in November, the band posted a teaser image on their Instagram page, depicting the skyline of a white city with pieces of confetti floating around, with the letters KCR arranged in a new logo.^[18] The post had the caption "If you could be anything, what would you be?".^[2] Several fans speculated that the announcement was for The Paper Kingdom, the band's planned fifth studio album that was scrapped before their initial break up in 2013.^[19]

When the tour was announced, the band released a trailer^[20][21][22] which features a dictator walking out onto a balcony to a cheering crowd in a white-colored dystopian city.^[9][22][23] The description of the trailer references the time that had passed since the last appearance of the Black Parade alter-ego, which has since become labeled as "His Grand Immortal Dictator's National Band". It also describes the tour as the Black Parade's "work privilege [being] ceremoniously reinstated," allowing for it to celebrate the culture and achievements of a fictional dictatorship known as Draag.^[9][21] The announcement trailer for the Mexico City show made similar references to the previous trailer's description, while also retconning the death of the Black Parade.^[11] Other teasers related to the tour that have been released includes ones simply titled "Opera" and "Good Boy".^[17]

The type of advertising that was used to announce the dates throughout South America were noted as differing from the rest of the tour.^[13][14] Despite being labelled as part of the tour,^[24] the announcements did not feature material related to The Black Parade, and instead featured songs from one of the band's other albums, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004).^[13][14]

Tickets for the initial ten North American dates went on sale on November 15, 2024.^[25][9] Within a few hours, all tickets to each show had sold out, with 365,000 tickets sold in total.^[10] The prices of tickets sold for the concerts were noted by fans online as being exceptionally high, with some seats having starting prices of over US$700.^[10][26] It was widely speculated that the band had opted into Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing feature, which scales the prices of tickets based on their demand.^[10][26][27] Prices were further accelerated by bot accounts, which were used to automatically purchase tickets and resell them at artificially inflated prices.^[28] Some fans criticized the band directly for their handling of ticket sales and alleged use of dynamic pricing, while others debated whether the band willingly opted into the practice, if they were forced into it by Ticketmaster, or if the practice was in use at all.^[26][28]