My Chemical Romance discusses next album
Sure, My Chemical Romance hasn’t actually started to record the followup to 2006’s Black Parade, nor do the New Jersey rockers have any idea when they will. In fact, considering the band appears more invested with its comic book series and covering Bob Dylan at the moment, a new album could be a long ways off. But even so, that hasn’t stopped MCR from at least dishing details on its forthcoming effort.
In a recent interview with MTV.com, bassist Mikey Way revealed the band has begun writing its fourth full-length studio album, though at the moment, he has no idea as to what it may end up sounding like:
So if, say, we wrote some songs that sound like Rick Springfield, a week later they’ve all turned into Children of Bodom songs,” he explained. “I know it’s going to be great — I ju
st don’t know what it’s going to sound like. We’re going to be just as surprised as everyone else, believe me.”
Way did go on to note however, that fans should expect a major change in structure once the album is finally ready to be unveiled. In other words, unlike the band’s three previous studio release, #4 will not be concept album. “From my standpoint — I want to go into it not thinking about a definite story. I said that during Parade, but I still think I had something to work out,” Way explained. “I think I had to get it out of my system, as far as writing concept records. I had to at least do one more before I stopped doing them. Obviously, they’ll always be cohesive though. The songs need to fit together, that’s what makes a great album.”
So in summary, expect a rather unique sound album that’s cohesive, but not a concept. Oh, and did we mention MCR hope to emulate the band’s live intensity?
“The one thing is we’ve never really captured that ‘live’ feeling. We’ve gone for sometimes more polish. We’ve obviously emulated bands like Queen in trying to get that classic, late-’70s glam sound, and we’ve gone for that at times, especially on the last record…But then, when we’re playing this stuff live, it’s ultimately going to get more aggressive, so I think it’d be interesting to hear what the band sounds like recorded at least somewhat in those parameters of a live set.”
i.e., something like this…
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