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YOU WONT BELIEVE: My chemical romance - You Need To See This

“I didn’t have a guitar, so he let me play this Strat that he got from Jimi’s old guitar tech. It was the best-playing guitar ever”: My Chemical Romance's Ray Toro was strictly a Les Paul man, until he got his hands on one of Jimi Hendrix's Strats

A guy named Jimmy gave him a guitar owned by Jimi, and it was a revelatory experience

Guitar World

"He's stabbed to death by a monochrome clown, who promptly blows himself up." My Chemical Romance headline Thursday night of Sonic Temple with a stunning show for the ages

The emo legends underscore why they're the most important rock band since Nirvana

Louder

Feral goblins, Satanic declarations and hometown heroes: inside day one at Sonic Temple Festival 2026

Nekrogoblikon, Flyleaf, Whitechapel and more: our review of day one of Sonic Temple 2026

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“We were spent, burnt, totally out of it... We started to see The Black Parade as the enemy – one we wanted to kill”: My Chemical Romance's struggle to follow up their biggest success

The Black Parade nearly killed the band. But My Chemical Romance found changing directions almost as fatal when it came to making Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Guitar World

"Basically all their songs are about loss and dying." Emo-loving pop star PinkPantheress on her favourite My Chemical Romance song

"I love Gerard Way!"

Louder

“When everyone’s staring at you, you can’t run off and cry. You just gotta deal with it”: Witch Fever’s Alisha Yarwood on superhero stompboxes, dream tours with IDLES, and why ‘That Great Gretsch Sound’ was doom-punk all along

Raw, feminist, fiercely unrelenting, Witch Fever have taken their sound from clubs to arenas. Here, Yarwood talks tonal epiphanies, starting on drums, and finding freedom on bigger stages

Guitar World

My Chemical Romance, Tool, Limp Bizkit and Pierce The Veil to headline Aftershock festival 2026; The Offspring, Queens Of The Stone Age, Babymetal and more than 130 other acts also confirmed

The Sacramento festival will return to Discovery Park from October 1 to 4

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“There was a point where My Chemical Romance were opening shows for us. Quite quickly, they weren’t anymore”: The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite happen

As nu metal’s commercial power began to wane, major labels desperately signed a bunch of bands with hardcore backgrounds, from My Chemical Romance to Cave In. A lot of them didn’t work out.

Metal Hammer

My Chemical Romance tease fans with cryptic new video

My Chemical Romance fans are hoping new music is on the way after a cryptic post on social media.

BANG Premier

“Give the average guitar player the chance to own my live rig. My tone. The tone worth $100,000s”: Billy Corgan and Laney Amplification unveil the ultimate Smashing Pumpkins amp-in-a-box pedal

NAMM 2026: The Supergrace is a two-hander between Laney and Brian Carstens, and Corgan gave it a trial by fire when playing with My Chemical Romance in front of 60,000 fans

MusicRadar

“Give the average guitar player the chance to own my live rig. The tone worth $100,000s”: Billy Corgan has shrunk his Smashing Pumpkins rig into a Laney pedal amp – and he tested it in front of 60,000 My Chemical Romance fans

When Corgan walked onstage with My Chemical Romance at Soldier Field stadium, he didn’t bring his guitar rig. He plugged into the Laney Supergrace and nothing else

Guitar World

“We were a really weird punk band that came out of hardcore and were shot into this vortex”: Fall Out Boy came out of the US hardcore scene. So how did they become poster boys for 21st century emo?

Chicago’s Fall Out Boy were playing to one person a night – and then MTV happened

Louder

"It is no cowardly act to release something of this nature, but a service to those who believed in a band that did not compromise. And yes, it is f***ing heartbreaking." The story of My Chemical Romance's Fake Your Death, their "eulogy" of a 'final' song

Serving as My Chemical Romance's last song for nearly a decade, Fake Your Death remains a fascinating insight into saying goodbye to something that you love more than life itself

Louder

"We can't wait to see you all" Skunk Anansie, Joan Jett, Interpol & more have been announced as the supports for My Chemical Romance's shows in the UK and Europe next Summer

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Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Turnstile, Rise Against and more than 150 other rock and metal bands have just been announced for Welcome To Rockville festival 2026

Florida’s largest rock, metal and punk festival will return to Daytona Beach in May

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Tool, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Halestorm, Megadeth, Alter Bridge and over 130 more bands will play next year's Sonic Temple festival in Ohio

The five-stage weekender will take place in Columbus, Ohio from May 14 to 17

International Business Times UK

My Chemical Romance Adds Black Parade Tour Dates for 2026 in UK, US, and Europe: Where They'll Be and How to Get Tickets

My Chemical Romance will tour globally in 2026, celebrating The Black Parade with dates in the UK, Europe, and North America.

Louder

My Chemical Romance announce The Black Parade 2026 tour

They’ve also added a third Wembley date and there’s two new UK shows as well

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The National (Scotland)

Emo giants My Chemical Romance add massive Scottish show to world tour

US rockers My Chemical Romance have added a massive Scottish show to their upcoming world tour ...

Louder

Gerard Way teases new project with US ska-punk band The Interrupters

Gauzy Records are teeing up a new single titled I Wanna Know Your Name, with the My Chemical Romance frontman on vocals and bass duties

BANG Premier

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way teases new project The Mock-Ups

Gerard Way and members of the band The Interrupters are joining forces on a new musical project.

MusicRadar

“It took five years to really finish the song and define what it truly was about”: How My Chemical Romance created their classic rock anthem Welcome To The Black Parade

In its earliest form it sounded like the Frank Sinatra hit My Way

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Billy Corgan joins My Chemical Romance for Smashing Pumpkins cover in Chicago

Smashing Pumpkins frontman is surprise guest for My Chemical Romance's cover of Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Evening Standard

My Chemical Romance tour: Everything you need to know

The eagerly anticipated Long Live: The Black Parade tour's UK leg will arrive next summer

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift reveals new album during surprise Travis Kelce podcast appearance

The singer revealed her 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl, after a countdown on her website

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