| MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys' facts... |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Friday, 17 September 2010 00:02 |
 Forget everything you think you already know about MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE. Fact 1: My Chemical Romance's forthcoming fourth studio album is entitled 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'. Fact 2: 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys' will be released worldwide on November 22nd. Fact 3: According to Rolling Stone magazine, the new album consists of songs that are "mostly synth-happy, technicolour pop tunes, complete with an unabashed dance beat…" Fact 4: Watch the My Chemical Romance 'Art Is The Weapon' album trailer... Rolling Stone reports from an interview with frontman Gerard Way that the band scrapped their originally written songs - "a dark, Stooges-influenced LP" - in favour of the new songs which RS explains are united by the concept of being "a transmission from a post-apocalyptic radio station in 2019". Way explains that: "It's a party record. The scariest thing was to admit to ourselves that we wanted to have a good time". The brief article concludes that Way particularly likes the album's opening track 'Na Na Na', which he says sounds like: "It's the punk-rock 'Hey Ya'. It sounds like a big gang of children yelling. It's dumb as fuck, really." You can read the full blurb in the Fall Music Preview feature in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. It's interesting to note that at Comic-Con 2009, Gerard Way originally announced his next comic-book series, named 'The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'. Co-written with Shaun Simon and illustrated by Becky Cloonan, the new series was expected to be released in 2010. Way said that the series was set in ‘90s America, and that: "It's simply about a guy who wants his Ramones records back. But during the character’s journey, and because the comic is a mature reader title, there will be “much more mature and controversial themes, such as hate crimes and homophobia, the homogenization of American culture and American life." If the time-settings still remain the same, perhaps the new album is the world of the "Fabulous Killjoys" in the future, post-comic-book series?! Watch the My Chemical Romance 'Zone Surveillance 1B' video teaser below... |
