Gerard Way Hints at New MCR Album After 16 Years — SkimNews
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- Gerard Way told fans at Saturday's Alamodome show in San Antonio that My Chemical Romance plans to record their first LP in over 16 years, following 2010's Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.
- My Chemical Romance spent the past year touring for the 20th anniversary of 2006's The Black Parade, with Saturday's show closing the North American leg of the Long Live the Black Parade Tour.
- Since reuniting in 2019 after a half-decade split, the band released only one new song — 2022's 'The Foundations of Decay' — which Way called 'really awesome when we kept doing it.'
- Way told the crowd: 'you guys, honestly, kept us alive for so long that you guys deserve another record,' framing the album as repayment for two decades of fan support.
- After festival stops in Louisville and Sacramento plus a five-night Hollywood Bowl residency ending Halloween October 31, MCR heads to southeast Asia through late November — 'at which point the band hopefully can get back in the studio.'
Why it matters: After 16 years without a full album, MCR's first LP since 2010's Danger Days hinges on the late-November end of their southeast Asia tour. Way framed the project as owed to fans who sustained the band through a five-year disbandment.
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