Photos + Review — My Chemical Romance Bring the Heat in Arlington

My Chemical Romance introduced their Lengthy Dwell the Black Parade tour to Arlington, Texas’ Globe Life Discipline on Saturday, turning up the warmth on an already-sweltering night time with their theatrical emo extravaganza.

You’ll be able to see Loudwire’s unique photographs from the present and the complete setlist under.

The New Jersey rockers opened the present by plowing by means of The Black Parade, augmenting the beloved 2006 album with new preparations and bits of macabre theater (together with the mock election and execution that set social media ablaze final month). The basic rock-influenced idea album has aged like high-quality wine over the previous twenty years — songs like “Useless!” and “Welcome to the Black Parade” nonetheless crackle with urgency, whereas “Mama” and “Well-known Final Phrases” dazzled with ample pyrotechnics and summoned stadium-sized singalongs.

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My Chemical Romance Play Two Tour Debuts Throughout Dressed-Down Arlington Set

As satisfying because it was to see MCR carry out their greatest album in full whereas donning full Black Parade apparel, the present’s second half provided the most important surprises and thrills. Dressed down and standing on the B-stage amid the viewers, the band tore by means of hits and deep cuts with informal charisma and infectious enthusiasm. Unburdened by the excessive idea and historic significance of The Black Parade, the band — significantly frontman Gerard Manner — appeared youthful and moved with a newfound spring of their step.

The Arlington present featured tour debuts of Standard Weapons‘ “The World Is Ugly” and The Black Parade B-side “Kill All Your Buddies,” and ended with the unreleased “Battle Beneath the Rain,” a monstrous energy ballad with sufficient grandiose hooks to earn its set-closing standing.

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A canopy of the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” labored the viewers right into a frenzy, whereas early, riff-driven album cuts “Our Girl of Sorrows” and “Thank You for the Venom” made a case for a few of the most uncompromising rock music performed in a stadium setting in 2025. However MCR effortlessly switched vitality on a dime, with the danceable, synth-heavy “Planetary (GO!)” convincing even the staunchest arm-crosser to swivel their hips.

Contemplating how their legacy has grown with every passing 12 months, it is spectacular that that is My Chemical Romance’s first stadium tour. The 40,000-strong Arlington crowd was proof of the band’s capacity to bridge the hole between Gen X, millennial and Gen Z followers, and it cemented their standing as considered one of, if not the most culturally important rock act of the previous 20 years.

However these superlatives did not matter on Saturday. The crowd was simply pleased to have them again. Lengthy stay the Black Parade.

My Chemical Romance Setlist – Aug. 2, 2025 in Arlington, TX

1. “The Finish.”
2. “Useless!”
3. “This Is How I Disappear”
4. “The Sharpest Lives”
5. “Welcome to the Black Parade”
6. “I Do not Love You”
7. “Home of Wolves”
8. “Most cancers”
9. “Mama”
10. “Sleep”
11. “Youngsters”
12. “Disenchanted”
13. “Well-known Final Phrases”
14. “The Finish.” (Reprise)
“Blood” (prerecorded)
B-Stage
15. “From A to B” (instrumental)
16. “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)”
17. “Our Girl of Sorrows”
18. “Planetary (GO!)”
19. “I am Not Okay (I Promise)”
20. “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” (The Smashing Pumpkins cowl)
21. “The World Is Ugly” (Tour debut)
22. “Thank You for the Venom”
23. “Kill All Your Buddies” (Tour debut)
24. “Helena”
25. “Battle Beneath the Rain”