Photo credit: My Chemical Romance and Sydratax via X

My Chemical Romance wiped all content from their X account just before the last show of the current leg of their Black Parade 2026 Stadium Tour. This occurred ahead of their second consecutive concert on February 14 at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros.

The timing of this digital purge draws attention for multiple reasons. Primarily, this concert marks the finale of their Latin American tour segment, following a run that traces the success of 2025’s Long Live: The Black Parade tour. Each night, the band has been performing the entirety of their 2006 album The Black Parade, delivering a theatrical experience featuring characters and developing storylines on stage. Notably, the first Mexico City show on February 9 reintroduced the Dictator—a figure prominent during the previous year’s tour run.

Mexico City holds special significance as it was the city where The Black Parade album was originally released in 2006. That tour stop was immortalized in The Black Parade is Dead!, a live recording that effectively symbolized the end of the band’s performances as their alter-egos The Black Parade. In the current 2026 shows, fans have often been reminded that filming is taking place, adding to the anticipation of what might come next.

Speculation about new My Chemical Romance music has been brewing even before their 2026 tour launched. On July 26, 2025, the band debuted an unreleased track called “War Beneath the Rain,” but it remains officially unreleased nearly seven months later. The buzz only intensified in January prior to the tour’s opening when the band shared a cryptic teaser simply stating “phantom.” During the February 9 concert, a robotic voice repeated the phrase “pigs have apples, not tomatoes on Mars,” which keen-eyed fans decoded as an acrostic spelling “phantom.” This adds fuel to theories that new material or a new album could be on the horizon.

Following the Mexico City shows, My Chemical Romance will pause their touring activities. They plan to resume in May with performances at the Welcome to Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, Florida on May 10, and shortly after at Sonic Temple in Columbus, Ohio on May 14. Their Black Parade 2026 Stadium Tour then continues with European dates including concerts at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium on June 30, multiple Wembley Stadium shows in London in early July, and stops in Florence and Madrid. Later dates include festivals and large venues across the US and Asia through November, featuring notable collaborations with artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Pierce the Veil, Modest Mouse, Iggy Pop, Sleater-Kinney, Babymetal, Jimmy Eat World, and The Mars Volta.

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