From Rolling Stone · Daniel Kreps · · 1m 30s
My Chemical Romance want to make another record
On a San Antonio stage, Gerard Way told the crowd the band hopes to record its first album in over 16 years.
In brief
On a San Antonio stage, Gerard Way told the crowd the band hopes to record its first album in over 16 years. MCR has no release date and no studio news, just Gerard Way saying out loud that the band wants to make another record. Originally reported by Rolling Stone.
A hint from the stage
At My Chemical Romance's Saturday show in San Antonio, Gerard Way told fans the band plans to record a new album. It would be their first LP in more than 16 years.
Twenty years of Black Parade
The band has spent the past year touring behind the 20th anniversary of 2006's The Black Parade, the record that made them arena-sized.
Then they stopped
One more album followed, 2010's Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, before the group broke up for half a decade in the mid-2010s.
Back, but barely new
MCR reunited in 2019 for a run of tours, but in all that time they have put out exactly one new song: 2022's "The Foundations of Decay."
Life got in the way
Way told the Alamodome crowd that the band loved playing their one new song and always meant to make more, but things kept intervening.
“We should probably make more songs. And then you know, stuff happens, life happens.”
The fans are the reason
Way framed the record as something owed to the people who stuck around through the breakup and the long silence.
“You guys, honestly, kept us alive for so long that you guys deserve another record.”
The headline
MCR has no release date and no studio news, just Gerard Way saying out loud that the band wants to make another record.
