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12 November 2024

My Chemical Romance Spark Rumours Of New Release

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My Chemical Romance have shared a mysterious post on their socials which fans believe might point to the release of their scrapped final album, The Paper Kingdom.

The cryptic image features a city skyline with confetti and three symbols transposed over the photo with the caption: “If you could be anything, what would you be?” Fans have pointed out that the three symbols look very similar to the Russian translation of “TPK”.

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Back in 2013, MCR frontman Gerard Way told Kerrang that six songs for The Paper Kingdom were completed, but the band broke up later that year. In 2014, Way discussed the album in an interview, “So that My Chem record that didn’t get made it was really, not only was it really dark… I was basically finding anything else to do besides write music… it’s like, I cared what the songs were, but it’s like it’s gonna be a bunch of dark stuff and we’re going to build costumes and stage sets, and it’s going to be this storyline about a support group of parents who are dealing with the loss of their children so they make up this story about the children all being missing in the woods and fighting this witch and that that was what it was about. It was called The Paper Kingdom. And there may be a time in my life where I want to do The Paper Kingdom. And maybe it’s a book, or maybe it’s something else.”

The rumours follow the band’s recent (Saturday 19 October) headline appearance at When We Were Young festival, where they performed their classic 2006 record The Black Parade in full from front to back live for the first time in 17 years. The band’s most recent material was 2022’s surprise single The Foundations Of Decay, which marked their first new release in eight years, with their last full-length album being 2010’s Danger Days.

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