My Chemical Romance in the Studio with Brendan O’ Brien Recording “Aggressive” New Album
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE is currently in the studio in Los Angeles working on their highly anticipated fourth studio album with veteran producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Aerosmith, etc.)
The band began writing the songs in May 2008, a week after they finished up more than a year of touring in support of their 2006 platinum-selling concept album The Black Parade, but frontman Gerard Way says things didn’t really come together until about six months later. He adds that the new album is the first one the band has recorded that is not centered on any one concept.
“At this point, the best way to describe the new album is My Chemical Romance being the purest, most distilled version of itselg. No bells and whistles, as the focus has been on melody and songwriting. If it doesn’t work in a room with just the five of us, we aren’t trying to make it work in the studio with effects and string sections. Making The Black Parade allowed us the departure we needed to see what worked and what didn’t, experiment, and add a lot of elements we never would have. Sometimes you need to leave to come back home. To me, it feels like the culmination of everything we have learned as songwriters and players.”
Adds guitarist Ray Toro:
“I think the direction of the new album is a perfect mix of what we did on Black Parade and what we did on Revenge. After Black Parade, we were ready for a more aggressive sound, similar to Revenge, but even harder. Because we had toured behind Black Parade for so long, we wanted to do the complete opposite of that this time out, almost kind of de-construct ourselves.”
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