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My Chemical Romance Opens 'Long Live the Black Parade' Stadium Tour and Debuts Unreleased 'War Beneath the Rain'

The band honored late engineer Doug McKean with its surprise new song during a theatrical staging of 'The Black Parade'.

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Overview

  • My Chemical Romance opened their first stadium trek with two sold-out nights at Los Angeles’s Dodger Stadium, performing their 2006 album The Black Parade in full.
  • The show unfolded as a cinematic narrative with characters like a Grand Immortal Dictator, staged executions and fan-driven voting to reinforce the album’s concept.
  • During the B-stage encore, the band debuted “War Beneath the Rain,” a previously unreleased track from a scrapped 2012 project recorded in North Hollywood.
  • Frontman Gerard Way dedicated the live premiere of the new song to the family of late engineer Doug McKean, who worked on the original recording sessions.
  • The Long Live the Black Parade tour moves to Arlington, Texas on August 2 and will continue through September before resuming in Latin America and Asia in 2026.