My Chemical Romance announce The Black Parade (20th Anniversary), arriving October 23 on Reprise Records.
The expanded reissue celebrates two decades of a monumental work that has since been RIAA-certified 4x Platinum, ranked among Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” and inspired fans and artists across generations and genres.
My Chemical Romance shares:
Twenty years ago, we wrote what would become ‘The Black Parade,’ our third record and the follow up to ‘Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.’ At the time, we could never have imagined what the record would mean for the band. All we knew is that we had made something crazy, and something we couldn’t wait to get it out into the world.
Today, twenty years on, we celebrate its release. For the first time, we have included everything we finished during those sessions in a single collection.
As importantly, we asked James Jean to revisit the world of The Black Parade and create three new pieces of art. What he has crafted is a beautiful collection of a few iconic characters from the record during that era. James is truly a one-of-a-kind artist, and so important to how this record was presented to the world. We are extremely grateful for meeting him all those years ago, and agreeing now to make something new.
Our hope is that you enjoy this collection of music and illustrations as much as we do, because we wanted to honor how timeless and enduring you’ve allowed it to be.
Thank you for marching with us.
To the death!
To ring in the news, My Chemical Romance are sharing the bonus track “The Sharpest Lives (Live from Hoboken),” now in streaming audio for the first time, alongside a standalone video of the performance, which was previously captured exclusively on the DVD portion of band’s 2008 live collection The Black Parade Is Dead!
The Black Parade (20th Anniversary) includes the full album alongside six bonus tracks — two more from the Hoboken show, previously unreleased on LP, CD, or streaming, and three fan-favorite B-sides previously scattered across different releases, including never-before-released “Someone Out There Loves You.”
Original Album
1. “The End.”
2. “Dead!”
3. “This Is How I Disappear”
4. “The Sharpest Lives”
5. “Welcome To The Black Parade”
6. “I Don’t Love You”
7. “House of Wolves”
8. “Cancer”
9. “Mama” (feat. Liza Minnelli)
10. “Sleep”
11. “Teenagers”
12. “Disenchanted”
13. “Famous Last Words”
14. “Blood (A Brief Intermission)”
Bonus Tracks
“Heaven Help Us” *
“Kill All Your Friends” *
“My Way Home Is Through You” *
“Dead! (Live)” *
“The Sharpest Lives (Live)” *
“Someone Out There Loves You (Live)” **
*Available on Deluxe Editions of “The Black Parade (20th Anniversary)”
**Available on all Deluxe Editions & One Step 2LP