My Chemical Romance has been on the road for a few weeks on the band’s Long Live the Black Parade tour, performing its fiercely beloved 2006 album in its entirety since kicking off the stadium run in Seattle on July 11; they’ve also been reunited for a few years, hitting the road in 2022 after years of inactivity and weaving a few festivals into the tour itinerary. All of which is to say, the band has been around lately — yet Saturday night was different.

On Aug. 9, My Chemical Romance made its headlining debut at MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, N.J., a few towns over from their childhood homes in Belleville, with a show that was at once triumphant and extremely Jersey-coded. Although the Long Live the Black Parade tour has involved a theatrical slant — in which the band members don cost

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