The Black Parade is the third studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, first released on October 23, 2006, through Reprise Records. It was produced by the band with Rob Cavallo, known for having produced several albums for the Goo Goo Dolls and Green Day. It is a rock opera and concept album centered on a dying man with cancer known as "The Patient". The album tells the story of his apparent death, experiences in the afterlife, and subsequent reflections on his life. It is the band's only studio album to feature Bob Bryar on drums before his departure in 2010.

The Black Parade was supported by four singles: "Welcome to the Black Parade", which was the band's first number one single in the United Kingdom, "Famous Last Words", "I Don't Love You", and "Teenagers". My Chemical Romance began The Black Parade World Tour on February 22, 2007, in the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire. The tour featured 133 performances worldwide, as well as several festival and condensed shows. The tour was the longest and most internationally comprehensive headlining tour the band played, featuring three legs in North America, two legs in Europe, and one in Asia, Australia, and Latin America.

The Black Parade received generally favorable reviews from critics, with the limited edition boxed set also earning a nomination at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in 2008. The album was also a commercial success, debuting at number two on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart. It has been certified as 4× platinum in the United States, 3× platinum in the United Kingdom, as well as gold in both Argentina and Chile. The Black Parade was given the Platinum Europe Award by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for one million sales in Europe. The Black Parade has sold three million copies in the United States as of 2016, and four million worldwide. The record was reissued as The Black Parade/Living with Ghosts on September 23, 2016, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the album's release. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 361 in its updated list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".