Perhaps the strangest among the audience of onlookers were those who thought that the leaks might be part of an elaborate scheme by the band to unveil new material, introducing a character of Excalibur in the theatrical style that My Chemical Romance are known and loved for. News of the illegally obtained album’s impending sale split My Chemical Romance fans harshly into two camps – those who didn’t engage with the leak out of respect for their idols, and those who did. The snippets were taken down from YouTube for copyright. The storyline of the album was going to centre on “a support group of parents who are dealing with the loss of their children, so they make up this story about the children all being missing in the woods and fighting this witch.” Made up of twelve tracks according to what a prospective buyer shared on Discord, Excalibur leaked snippets of three songs from the album that loosely align with the storyline: ‘Dark Cloud’, ‘Witch’ and ‘Wake Up!’. “The record that didn’t get made was extremely dark,” frontman Gerard Way shared about the project in 2014. The album that Excalibur was purporting to sell for up to USD$15,000 was The Paper Kingdom, an unreleased gem that’s become a thing of fan lore after being scrapped by My Chemical Romance almost a decade ago. It poses the question – after all this time, how are we still seeing stolen music get traded right in the public eye? That seems to have been the reason that one user, going by the handle ‘Excalibur’, closed down his thread on one such site for the alleged sale of an unheard album by My Chemical Romance, posting that it was the most replied to thread ever for leaks outside of hip hop. No one’s told us that specifically, but one would assume that a community that trades in mostly illegal assets doesn’t want a heap of mainstream attention. You would have to imagine that the first rule of a website that leaks music in exchange for money is not to talk about it…
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