My Chemical Romance‘s various array of help acts for his or her 2025 US stadium tour has drew a polarised response on-line.
Yesterday, the emo legends introduced a US tour in celebration of their 2006 album ‘The Black Parade’, kicking off on July 11 2025 on the T-Cell Park in Seattle. From there, Gerard Manner and co will make stops in cities reminiscent of San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Arlington, East Rutherford, Philadelphia, Toronto and extra. The tour will wrap up on the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on September 13.
Every present will function a special hand-selected artist as opening help – Violent Femmes, 100 Gecs, Wallows, Rubbish, Loss of life Cab for Cutie and Thursday, Alice Cooper, Pixies, Devo, IDLES and Evanescence.
In line with followers, among the help acts make extra sense than others, which means sure bands ended up coming as a shock.
Alice Cooper was a notably divisive selection. Some followers had been important primarily based on feedback the shock rocker made final 12 months the place he mentioned that being transgender was principally “a fad” which appeared at odds with the band’s inclusive values, in addition to the massive proportion of LGBTQ+ individuals of their fanbase.
“i do know everybody’s enthusiastic about mcr however it’s unbelievably disappointing to see them placing alice cooper on one of many present contemplating his transphobic beliefs,” one fan wrote on X/Twitter.
Others weren’t so against it. “Gosh dang MCR with Alice Cooper. The individuals of Philadelphia are some fortunate kiddos.,” one other fan mentioned.
i do know everybody’s enthusiastic about mcr however it’s unbelievably disappointing to see them placing alice cooper on one of many present contemplating his transphobic beliefs
— survival horror orange sweater blonde woman (@CAPTSPCEBOY) November 12, 2024
Hey, My Chemical Romance, perhaps you should not be doing a present with transphobic piece of shit Alice Cooper. Only a thought.
— Emily is Cursed 🜏⛧🐦⬛🏴 (@cursedpsion) November 12, 2024
Gosh dang MCR with Alice Cooper. The individuals of Philadelphia are some fortunate kiddos. https://t.co/R2DRXZpYFC
— Des Brodean (@DesBrodean) November 12, 2024
Try different reactions beneath:
my chemical romance with evanescence with rubbish with alice cooper with pixies what the fuck
— jasmine 🪐 (@nthntodowithlve) November 12, 2024
These are legitimately among the craziest openers I’ve ever seen listed on a single tour. Alice Cooper?? Rubbish?? Devo?? Violent Femmes?? Anyway The Black Parade is the perfect My Chemical Romance album so that is actually cool. https://t.co/9CIKGI4ohi
— Vas Drimalitis (@vasdrimalitis) November 12, 2024
why the fuck is wallows opening for mcr in la, im irate
— Hunter Thompson (@NHunterThompson) November 12, 2024
evanescence supporting my chemical romance is an emo children dream why is it in america
— beth (@maroonights) November 12, 2024
and the gang exchanges confused and intrigued notes ??
— Anthony (@adirocco9) November 12, 2024
mcr and 100 gecs in san francisco we could have the primary 100% transgender attendance live performance https://t.co/35KV3DAPZC
— burger in love (@hotelkrat) November 12, 2024
these openers are so chaotic i’m obsessed https://t.co/olkSewjtp2
— julia ☻ (naive melody) (@altmsfrizzle) November 12, 2024
wallows opening for mcr is pissing me OFF https://t.co/WMF3FxFwAz
— Codeine Queen (@BreakinBahiyya) November 12, 2024
Final month, the band reunited at When We Have been Younger pageant and carried out the album in its entirety.
The band’s most up-to-date materials was 2022’s ‘The Foundations of Decay’ – a shock single that marked their first new launch in eight years, with their final full-length album being 2010’s ‘Hazard Days’.
