2019 brought multiple hell-hath-frozen-over band reunions: Bauhaus, the Black Crowes, Rage Against the Machine, the Jonas Brothers, Shakespears Sister, even the Red Hot Chili Peppers with John Frusciante. But perhaps none were more hyped than the triumphant return of New Jersey goth/emo/glam superheroes My Chemical Romance, whose first show in seven years — at Los Angeles’s 6,300-capacity Shrine Expo Hall — sold out in four minutes after it was announced, fittingly, on Halloween this year.And on Friday, Dec. 20, those 6,300 superfans, many Hot Topically attired in the band’s goth-Sgt. Pepper/skeleton jackets or cosplaying as frontman-turned-Umbrella Academy-writer Gerard Way’s fuchsia-haired, greasepaint-eyed Danger Days persona, breathlessly gathered to welcome back the Black Parade.Read more from Yahoo Entertainment:
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