Okay, calm down My Chemical Romance fans! The word on the street is that MCR are not splitting up and they will record a follow-up to their Top 10, 2006 album, The Black Parade.
It's just not gonna be any time soon though...
"We can't make any more music unless we live," frotnman Gerard Way told MTV in a recent interview. "When we get a chance, we're going to get together and do some demos and start rolling. But we're going to take it slow. I feel like we needed to be away for a while. People need to kind of miss us because there was a point in the last two-and-a-half years where you could have seen us at least once a month if you wanted."
The singer, who tied the knot with Mindless Self Indulgence bassist Lyn-Z last September, is taking time off to enjoy married life as well as working on the follow-up to his award winning comic book, The Umbrella Academy, and he is also busy penning another "top secret" comic for DC Comics. His brother and MCR bassist Mikey Way is also working on a comic book, guitarist Frank Iero is taking time off to have some fun with his side-project Leathermouth, Ray Toro is busy preparing to wed his long time girlfriend Christa as well as gigging with his Wezer cover band and drummer Bob Bryar is enjoying some quality time with his family in his native Chicago.
However, album number four is not far from the band's thoughts.
"I'm already starting to get the ideas and the aesthetics and everything [for the record]," continued Way.
When asked how it'll compare to their previous efforts, he replied: "It's [going to be] very different from The Black Parade."
So, how different is different?
"It's hard to say at this point, but musically, how Black Parade tapped into the glam, classic rock of Queen and Ziggy Stardust, this taps into something different - not punk, but maybe in its proto sense. The aesthetic - it is extremely different, and it is more stripped-down too."
"It will be more direct, more about life, and have more social commentary in there," Gerard continues. "That's where it's kind of heading now. It won't be a 'boohoo' record about 'Oh, we got famous,' but a commentary on how the world is now."
As previously reported on Kerrang! dot com, MCR will contribute a cover of Bob Dylan's Desolation Row for an upcoming film adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, Watchmen, which is due out in 2009.
Just goes to show how badly they're struggl...
