Fans are convinced they’ve solved subtle clues dropped by My Chemical Romance and figured out when they’ll be releasing new music.
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The emo giants are currently on their ‘Long Live The Black Parade’ tour, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal 2006 album, with much of the speculation about new material coming from apparent easter eggs at their recent live dates.
Gerard Way and co. have employed one prop consistently throughout – a faux time clock each member punches in on as they clock in for their shift as fictional members of The Black Parade band.
As noted by Loudwire, a close-up photo of the time clock from their August 29 stop at Chicago’s Soldier Field revealed the clock is set to 12:12, leading fans to believe new music could drop on December 12.
Their fans also seized on a moment when Way took a swig from a large flask emblazoned with Keposhka text, a fictitious language with its own font created specifically for the tour. Eagled-eyed fans then tried to decode the text, which they claimed read: “MCR. G. Way. 101386.”
They instantly ruled out his birthdate, given he was born in 1977, and instead theorised that because the 1986 calendar matches day-for-day with this year’s, new music could be coming on October 13.
It’s worth noting that the October theory seems more unlikely, not only because fans are still slightly befuddled by the accuracy of their Keposhka code, but also given major releases are typically shared on Fridays.
Earlier this month, the band announced two shows planned at London’s Wembley Stadium, with the dates seeing them head to the capital on July 10 and 11 next year.
Gerard Way and co. started teasing the news with a video clip depicting an old-school TV game show. Within hours of tickets going live, fans took to social media to lament to scramble for tickets the two upcoming events.
My Chemical Romance last performed in the UK as part of their reunion tour in 2022, with dates taking place in Milton Keynes, Cornwall, Dublin, Warrington, Cardiff and Glasgow.
At their latest run of gigs, the band are playing their 2006 third album ‘The Black Parade’ in full along with rarities from that era and some hits. They’ve also used the US dates to debut an unreleased song titled ‘War Beneath The Rain’, and treat fans to a surprise cover of The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’.
Support has been coming from a variety of different hand-selected artists, including Violent Femmes, 100 Gecs, Wallows, Garbage, Death Cab For Cutie and Thursday, Alice Cooper, Pixies, IDLES and Evanescence.
They were recently joined onstage by The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan to perform ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ together.
As well as playing live, MCR also released a deluxe 21st anniversary reissue of their second album ‘Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge’ in June.
