Black Parade 20th anniversary: release date and tracklist
The Black Parade (20th Anniversary) by My Chemical Romance comes out on Friday 23 October 2026 through Reprise Records. It is the band's third album, reissued with six bonus tracks (Official Charts, mxdwn).
Tracklist
The original album
- The End.
- Dead!
- This Is How I Disappear
- The Sharpest Lives
- Welcome to the Black Parade
- I Don't Love You
- House of Wolves
- Cancer
- Mama (feat. Liza Minnelli)
- Sleep
- Teenagers
- Disenchanted
- Famous Last Words
- Blood (A Brief Intermission)
The six 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)
Three of the bonus tracks are live recordings, taken from the band's show on 24 October 2007 at Maxwell's, a 200-capacity venue in Hoboken, New Jersey. Three are B-sides that were scattered across earlier releases. Both Official Charts and mxdwn describe "Someone Out There Loves You" as previously unreleased.
The official listing marks some of the bonus tracks as available only on the Deluxe editions, and "Someone Out There Loves You (Live)" as available on all Deluxe editions and the One Step 2LP. Check which tracks come with the format you are buying.
Formats
- Physical: a double LP, a CD and a cassette, all open for pre-order on the band's official store.
- Colours of vinyl: the store lists an exclusive "Bloodline Red" pressing, plus "Baby Pink" and "Concrete Grey".
- Collector's vinyl: a hologram pressing with a laser-etched design, in a gatefold sleeve that holds a removable card wrap, a new art insert and a printed inner sleeve.
- Audiophile option: a limited "One Step" vinyl set, made from the original analogue master recording.
- Streaming: one bonus track, "The Sharpest Lives (Live from Hoboken)", has been out on streaming platforms since 10 September, the day the reissue was announced.
The new artwork is by the artist James Jean, who revisited the characters of the Black Parade era in three new pieces.
What the band said
In a statement, the band said that "for the first time, we have included everything we finished during those sessions in a single collection". They closed it: "Thank you for marching with us. To the death!"
Quick facts
- Release date: Friday 23 October 2026
- Label: Reprise Records
- Original album: the band's third, following Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge; it peaked at number 2 on the UK's Official Albums Chart
- Reissue: 14 original tracks plus 6 bonus tracks
