My Chemical Romance set deluxe reissue of Danger Days, and the album’s afterlife is still expanding

My Chemical Romance have lined up a deluxe reissue of their final album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, with the expanded edition due on July 10 through Reprise/Warner Records.

It is a release that treats the record less like a dusty catalogue item than an album still actively being recontextualised. Danger Days was already a defining pivot point for the band, and the original run brought them two major wins at the 2011 NME Awards, for Best International Band and Best Video, alongside three further nominations. Now the full tracklist is being remastered, paired with reimagined artwork, and joined by nine bonus tracks that will arrive on vinyl and streaming for the first time.

The format spread is broad in the way major legacy reissues tend to be, but it also tells you exactly how carefully this era is being packaged for the present. The Deluxe Edition will be available in 2LP versions including a picture disc, zoetrope and colour vinyl variants, as well as 2CD and cassette. Fans attending select dates of the band’s Black Parade tour between July 10 and October 31 will also be able to pick up a special BL/ind tour edition vinyl.

To mark the announcement, the band have shared the first bonus track, Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) (Recorded For BBC Radio 1). The timing also comes with another piece of long-tail validation: Danger Days and its singles SING and Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) have now officially been certified platinum in the US.

“This is the album they were born to make. It gives us all the things that punk has never been able to provide: romance, sex, the adventure of the open road and sheer nihilism-banishing energy.”

That was NME’s verdict when Danger Days first arrived, and it still helps explain why the album has outlasted its original moment. At the time, the record was framed as the third and final stage of the band’s reinvention into a world-dominating pop/rock group, and it earned four stars. More than a decade later, the reissue suggests that chapter is being revisited not as nostalgia but as a still-living part of the My Chemical Romance story.

The deluxe tracklisting folds the original album together with bonus material that includes Zero Percent, We Don’t Need Another Song About California, F.T.W.W.W, Mastaa of Ravenkroft, Black Dragon Fighting Society, Common People (Recorded For BBC Radio 1), SING (iTunes Festival ‘11), The Kids From Yesterday (iTunes Festival ‘11) and the newly unveiled BBC Radio 1 version of Na Na Na.

The reissue lands just ahead of a huge 2026 Black Parade Tour, mounted for the 20th anniversary of the album that made My Chemical Romance a generational live act. Gerard Way and co. start at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium on June 30, then move to Glasgow on July 4 before a three-night run at London’s Wembley Stadium on July 8, 10 and 11. The European leg continues in Florence on July 15 and Madrid on July 18.

From there, the band head across the US for a large run of stadium dates with support from Franz Ferdinand, Pierce The Veil, Modest Mouse, Iggy Pop, Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders, Babymetal, Jimmy Eat World and The Mars Volta. The itinerary also includes South America, Southeast Asia and Mexico City, plus three festival slots at Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple and Louder Than Life.

UK tickets are available here, US tickets here, and the full run is listed below.

My Chemical Romance’s UK, European and US dates for The Black Parade 2026 tour are:

June 30, Liverpool, UK, Anfield Stadium

July 4, Glasgow, UK, Bellahouston Park

July 8, 10 and 11, London, UK, Wembley Stadium

July 15, Florence, IT, Visarno Arena

July 18, Madrid, ES, Iberdrola Music

August 9, New York, NY, Citi Field, with Franz Ferdinand

August 13, Nashville, TN, Nissan Stadium, with Pierce The Veil

August 18, Washington, DC, Nationals Park, with Modest Mouse

August 21, Detroit, MI, Comerica Park, with Iggy Pop

August 24, Minneapolis, MN, Target Field, with Sleater-Kinney

August 27, Denver, CO, Coors Field, with The Breeders

August 30, San Diego, CA, Petco Park, with Babymetal

September 6, Phoenix, AZ, Chase Field, with Jimmy Eat World

September 12, San Antonio, TX, Alamodome, with The Mars Volta

September 21, 23 and 24, Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood Bowl

Elsewhere, My Chemical Romance are also reportedly working on a secret theatre project.