It’s impossible to overstate the significance of My Chemical Romance on alternative music in the 21st Century. Ghost’s clergy, Bring Me The Horizon's ascension to arenas, even Sleep Token’s global takeover are ripples in the pond to the explosion of emo in the mid-2000s. All of which is to say, MCR headlining Sonic Temple is a Big Deal.
Performing The Black Parade in its entirety, My Chemical Romance put on the kind of massive spectacle that underscores the fact they’re the most important rock band since Nirvana or Oasis, their cultural footprint obvious in the sheer number of classic, Myspace-era emo getups spotted around the Historic Crew Stadium (although bright-coloured fringes remain in short supply).
