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My Chemical Romance wrapped up their five-night residency at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California. There, they performed the deepest cut in their entire catalogue: ‘Sister To Sleep’, a song they’d performed live just once before, nearly a decade ago, and never released in any official capacity.Initially written during the sessions for their second album, 2004’s ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’, the band performed ‘Sister To Sleep’ for the first and only time on June 26, 2003, when they played a small club show in New York City.After the only known recording of it – a low-quality bootleg from the New York show – gained traction in forums and on platforms like MySpace, the song went on to become a cult favourite within My Chemical Romance’s online fanbase.

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way is returning to the comic world to launch the new horror-themed series Paranoid Gardens.The singer, who had success with The Umbrella Academy, is teaming back up with Dark Horse Comics to release the new series in July, according to Deadline. Way has worked with co-writer Shaun Simon on the project.Described by Dark Horse as “Derek meets Doctor Who in six psychotic episodes,” the comics will be illustrated by Chris Weston, who has worked at Vertigo and DC, as well as on concept art for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

EXCLUSIVE: My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, creator of comic The Umbrella Academy, is teaming with Dark Horse Comics to launch horror comic Paranoid Gardens in July.

My Chemical Romance played the final show of their lengthy reunion tour earlier today (March 26).The legendary emo band originally broke up in 2013 but played their first show together in almost eight years on December 20, 2019 at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles, grossing a record $1.5million – the most in the venue’s history.A world tour was meant to follow before it was delayed due to COVID. My Chemical Romance finally kicked off their reunion tour with two shows at The Eden Project in Cornwall last summer, before playing gigs across Europe and North America, including a headline appearance at When We Were Young Festival.Earlier this month, My Chemical Romance played gigs in New Zealand and Australia before two shows in Japan.

Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally and Nick Cross has joined the cast of the fourth and final season of Netflix’s superhero drama series The Umbrella Academy.

Katie Reul editor Nearly a decade has passed since the disbandment of My Chemical Romance (MCR), the post-hardcore, pop-punk group led by frontman Gerard Way. And as a generation of Vans Warped Tour devotees grew up, so, too, did Gerard’s 13-year-old daughter, Bandit, who is now of age to appreciate her father’s music in all its angsty glory. At the Oct. 15 show of the band’s reunion tour, which had been postponed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gerard’s daughter was front and center at the Kia Forum with a squad of her friends. The vocalist dedicated his 2006 hit song “Teenagers” to her, which was a surreal moment for adult concert-goers whose punk awakening similarly began in early adolescence.

My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way invited the band’s tour support Thursday on stage on Tuesday (September 20) to perform the latter’s ‘Jet Black New Year’.Tuesday’s show marked the reunited band’s first show in their home state of New Jersey, at the Prudential Center, which preceded another gig at the venue last night (September 21).New Jersey natives My Chemical Romance and Thursday are longtime friends, so a performance of the track from Thursday’s ‘Five Stories Falling’ EP (2002) was something of a nod to that bond.See fan-shot footage of the performance below.A post shared by Thursday (@thursdayband)Meanwhile, My Chemical Romance have continued their trend of scattering fan-favourite deep cuts across their reunion tour by performing ‘Demolition Lovers’ for the first time in 18 years when they played the first of their two homecoming shows.‘Demolition Lovers’ came as the first song in their encore (which they rounded out with ‘The Kids From Yesterday’), marking the first time it had been featured in a setlist since June of 2004.It was also the 10th time in total that the band had ever performed the song – the closer on their debut album, 2002’s ‘I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love’ – to a public audience.Following the Newark shows, the band are se to continue their North American tour in Sunrise, Florida, with a further 13 dates on the itinerary before the band headline When We Were Young alongside Paramore.They are also set to tour Australia and New Zealand next March.Meanwhile, guitarist Frank Iero recently unveiled his new band, L.S. Dunes.

My Chemical Romance have continued their trend of scattering fan-favourite deep cuts across their reunion tour, performing ‘Demolition Lovers’ for the first time in 18 years when they took to the stage in Newark, New Jersey.The first of the band’s two hometown shows took place yesterday (September 20) at the 19,500-capacity Prudential Center, where they will also perform later tonight (September 21).‘Demolition Lovers’ came as the first song in their encore (which they rounded out with ‘The Kids From Yesterday’), marking the first time it had been featured in a setlist since June of 2004. It was also the 10th time in total that My Chem had ever performed the song – the closer on their debut album, 2002’s ‘I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love’ – to a public audience.Have a look at some fan-shot footage of the performance below:Elsewhere in last night’s set, My Chem delivered the first live performance of ‘I Never Told You What I Do For A Living’ since 2008.

My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Mad Gear And Missile Kid’ EP has finally been made available on streaming, 12 years after it was first released.The three-track record was originally released in 2010 as the soundtrack for the fictional Killjoys who inhabit the cartoonish, post-apocalyptic world of My Chemical Romance’s ‘Danger Days’.Now ‘F.T.W.W.W.’, ‘Mastas Of Ravenkroft’ and ‘Black Dragon Fighting Society’ are available to listen on streaming services.Announcing the news, My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero said: “Originally released back in 2010 as part of the ‘Danger Days’ universe, ‘The Mad Gear And Missile Kid’ EP is now available to stream on Spotify. You and your friends can now conveniently add the Killjoys’ favourite band to all of your playlists and such.”A post shared by frnkiero (@frankieromustdie)‘Mastas Of Ravencroft’ was given its live debut earlier this year, as My Chemical Romance kicked off their reunion tour at the Eden Project in Cornwall and has been making regular appearances ever since.Earlier this month, My Chemical Romance kicked off the North American leg of their reunion tour by playing two rarities for the first time in over 15 years.

Netflix has picked up a fourth season of The Umbrella Academy, which will be the superhero series’ last. The renewal comes a month after the Season 3 premiere of the comic-based drama, which opened at #1 in Netflix’s English-language TV weekly rankings with 124.5M hours viewed and spent five weeks in the Top 10.

My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way has performed the band’s latest show wearing a cheerleading outfit.The band took to stage in Nashville, Tennessee on August 23 and Way appeared wearing a green and white one piece cheerleading outfit at the Music City’s Bridgestone area.

My Chemical Romance have paid tribute to producer Doug McKean, who has died aged 54.According to an obituary shared by the band, McKean passed away yesterday (July 29) from a brain haemorrhage.In 2001, McKean moved to Los Angeles to work with producer Rob Cavallo, and went on to receive two Grammy Awards for his engineering work on Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’.McKean also had a longstanding relationship with My Chemical Romance, engineering 2006’s ‘The Black Parade’ and its follow-up, 2010’s ‘Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’.He also engineered and produced Gerard Way’s solo album ‘Hesitant Alien’ (2014); Way later said that “there would be no album without Doug”. McKean went on to work with Way on a majority of the standalone solo singles that followed the release of ‘Hesitant Alien’.His most recent work was on My Chemical Romance’s comeback single ‘The Foundations Of Decay’, with Way saying the pair had been working together throughout lockdown.Paying tribute to McKean, My Chemical Romance wrote: “My Chemical Romance lost Doug McKean, a dear friend, a collaborator, a partner, a brother, a problem-solver, a genius, an integral part of our music.

Crawlers have spoken about the “monumental” experience of supporting My Chemical Romance. Watch our video interview with singer Holly Minto and guitarist Amy Woodall above.Speaking to NME at Truck Festival in Oxfordshire this weekend (July 24), the Liverpool band reflected on opening for the emo legends in Woodall’s hometown of Warrington in May, where they were one of three acts supporting along with Frank Turner and Starcrawler.“We just had the best night, the show was great, the fans were loving it,” she said.Minto added: “I think supporting the band that got you through year 10 of high school is unheard of.

Selome Hailu After four weeks in the No. 1 position of Netflix’s Top 10 chart, Season 4 of “Stranger Things” has finally slipped from the top. Season 3 of “The Umbrella Academy” took that position during the June 20-26 viewing window, having premiered on June 22.

My Chemical Romance are back, much to fans’ delight.

My Chemical Romance are back in the UK for their first shows in over a decade after their stunning reunion announcement in 2019.In 2013, Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero and Ray Toro broke hearts across the world as they announced My Chemical Romance had come to an end.For millions of people, the band had helped them through dark, difficult moments, or had allowed them to find a bond with people who would become their life-long friends.From their earliest shows, Gerard would tell crowds that My Chemical Romance was a band that wanted to save people’s lives, and at every gig signs would be held in the air declaring the band had done just that.After close to six years apart, on Hallowen 2019 My Chemical Romance announced their reunion, and with it, a world tour. First set for the summer of 2020, this tour has been postponed again and again, but now it’s finally here.Metro.co.uk spoke to My Chemical Romance fanatics who grew up with the band, spent years without them and are now just days away from seeing them once again, about the phenomenal impact Gerard, Mikey, Ray and Frank have had on their lives.‘I literally got laid off from work on Monday and the only thing getting me through the week is knowing I can cry my eyes out to MCR on Saturday.‘I was 11 when I first heard them.

Gerard Way paid tribute to My Chemical Romance fans who have passed away over the last two years at their Milton Keynes show last night (May 19).The frontman held aloft a flag with the names of deceased MCR followers at Stadium MK after a fan passed it on to him.“So this is kind of crazy, this is our third show, we’ve played two shows and I think it was the first night where were fucking around having a good time and I was talking about how its been two and a half years and how does it feel and things like that” Way told the crowd.“And it occurred to me later after the second show, that there was a bunch of people that were probably gonna be at these shows that aren’t here with us anymore.

My Chemical Romance returned to live action on Monday night with a headline show at The Eden Project in Cornwall, England. It was the band's first show since a comeback gig in 2019 and kickstarts a reunion tour that was delayed by the pandemic.

My Chemical Romance released its first new song in eight years on Thursday.The 6-minute “The Foundations of Decay” is the band’s only release since 2014’s “Fake Your Death,” which was included on their greatest hits album.That tune, intended for the band’s unfinished fifth album, came as a parting gift to fans after MCR announced their breakup in 2013. Disciples of “The Black Parade” have been devastated ever since.

Ellise Shafer My Chemical Romance has returned with its first new song since 2014.The six-minute track, titled “The Foundations of Decay,” harkens back to the emo band’s heyday with Gerard Way’s dramatic vocal delivery, soaring guitar riffs and an epic slow build. The song is produced by Way, Doug McKean and lead guitarist Ray Toro.The band is about to embark on their reunion tour, with dates in North America and Europe, which was originally scheduled for 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic.

My Chemical Romance have returned with the surprise release of new song ‘The Foundations Of Decay’. Check it out below.The reunited emo legends are set to kick off a UK and European tour next week, including massive shows in Milton Keynes with Placebo With Fever and more.