My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade (2007, USA, Box Set, EX) [REPRISE]

Why you'll love it

Reprise made 2,500 of these deluxe boxes in December 2007, two 180g LPs in a heavy slipcase. Each gatefold doubles as a 12 by 12 inch volume of the Making the Black Parade book. The album reached No. 2 in the US, the UK and Canada.

This edition

• Reprise 116796-1, USA, 2007
• Limited edition of 2,500
• Two 180g LPs in gatefolds, housed in a heavy slipbox
• Gatefolds form the two volumes of the Making the Black Parade book
• Ted Jensen mastered it at Sterling, Stan Ricker cut the lacquers, RTI pressed it
• Condition: EX

About the album

The Black Parade came out on 23 October 2006. It is a concept album about The Patient, a man dying of cancer, who meets death in the form of a marching band his father took him to see as a child. Rob Cavallo produced it with the band, mostly at the Paramour Mansion in Los Angeles between April and August 2006.

The LP went four times platinum in the US, the UK and Canada. In the book, Volume 1 carries Gerard Way's essay, and Volume 2 has essays by Mikey Way and Bob Bryar with track notes from Ray Toro and Frank Iero. The hidden track Blood closes side D.

Tracklist

On Reprise (cat# 116796-1), a reissue of the 2006 album.