My Chemical Romance fans attending the group's July 26 show at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles were treated to the first ever live performance of War Beneath The Rain, an unreleased song that the emo superstars recorded, before their break-up, for what was supposed to be their fifth album.
The New Jersey quintet began work on the album, provisionally titled The Paper Kingdom, in Los Angeles in the summer of 2012. But the record was never completed, for on March 22, 2013, the group announced that they were breaking up, telling fans "Thanks for all of your support, and for being part of the adventure."
Introducing the song on Saturday night at the 56,000-capacity home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, frontman Gerard Way said, “I don’t remember how long ago it was, but before the band broke up, we had a studio in North Hollywood and we were making a record that never came out. And this was one of the songs we really loved from it. It was just us in the studio with our friend Doug McKean, he was there recording it. His family’s here tonight, I want this to go out to them.”
McKean, a recording engineer who worked with the band on The Black Parade, died of a brain hemorrhage in 2022.
Watch the world premiere of the song below:
