My Chemical Romance confirm new album

via NME, September 18, 2010

My Chemical Romance have revealed details of their long-awaited fourth album.

As has been speculated, the album will be titled ‘Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’ and released later this autumn.

The band have posted a teaser trailer at Mychemicalromance.com. The Tarantino-style clip sees the band listening to a pirate radio broadcast and dressed in biker gear, with Gerard Way sporting bright red hair.

The clip then goes on to flash slogans “Art is the weapon / against life as a symptom / defend yourself / the aftermath is secondary”.

The album was planned for release earlier in the year, with tracks previewed including ‘Bullet Proof Heart’ and ‘Black Dragon Fighting Society’. Way had promised a “stripped down” new direction, but the band went back to work on the record again following the departure of Bob Bryar.

Winner of the MCR Cover Contest

posted by Jeff on Jun 21, 2010 02:15pm

Thanks to everyone who entered the MCR Cover Contest, we got over 850 entries and we watched every single one of them. There were so many amazing entries, but in the end we had to choose just one. The winners of the MCR Cover Contest, and a signed My Chemical Romance guitar are none other than “Members of the Press.” Check out their entry here.

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest, keep your eyes out for new updates coming soon.

MCR Cover Contest

posted by Mikey on Jun 4, 2010 06:17pm

Dearest Friends,

Before we rip the curtain off of this new album, let’s have a little bit of fun. One thing we can’t help but notice, is just how unbelievably artistically talented you all are. People send us video clips and CD’s all the time of them performing our songs in every imaginable way. Be it solo, full band, acoustic, electric, electro, interpretive dance…we’ve seen just about everything, and it never ceases to amaze and inspire us.

We thought it would be awesome to finally showcase the best of the best of these videos, and reward you handsomely. From now until June 14th, we will be accepting entries for the very first My Chemical Romance YouTube cover contest. All you need to do is video tape yourself covering your favorite MCR song in whichever style you feel and follow the instructions below to enter the contest. We will review the entries and announce the champion and future owner of a signed guitar while showcasing some of our favorite entries.

Warm up those fingers and vocal chords! The sky’s the limit really, think outside the box and show em how it’s done.

Love you guys, we will catch up soon!

Mikey

HOW TO ENTER:

1. Record your own cover of your favorite MCR song and post the video to YouTube and post it as a video response to THIS VIDEO.
2. Come back to THIS PAGE and enter your video link. You must be registered and logged in to mychemicalromance.com to enter, so if you haven’t already, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE.
3. You can submit as many videos as you want, but they must be new (don’t submit anything that you put up on YouTube a year ago), and they must be yours.

Good luck!

9 new live videos with USB and a vest

posted by Jeff Watson on Mar 09, 2009 11:22am

From the MCR mailing list

On April 10th, My Chemical Romance will release “¡VENGANZA!” – a collection of nine never-before-seen live videos, straight from the encore set of the Mexico City show from October of 2007. They all come stored on a limited edition bullet-shaped USB drive, along with with exclusive photos of the band from the show. And it’s only available for pre-order right now at the MCR online store.

Plus, you’ll get a brand new, custom-designed “¡VENGANZA!” vest. Pre-order now!

And as a bonus, every pre-order includes instant high-quality, DRM-free MP3 downloads of the live tracks “Give ‘Em Hell, Kid” and “Helena.” US residents will get your “¡VENGANZA!” vest/USB bundle on or around April 10th.

The videos are:

• I’m Not Okay (I Promise)
• Cemetery Drive
• Thank You For The Venom
• The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You
• The Ghost Of You
• It’s Not A Fashion Statement It’s A Deathwish
• Give ‘Em Hell Kid
• You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison
• Helena

Plus, Buzznet is also holding a cool contest where they’re giving one of these things away. All you gotta do is submit an original image you designed that says “¡VENGANZA!” Check it out here.

Check out a preview of the video for Desolation Row!

posted by Jeff Watson on Jan 29, 2009 10:32am

The new video for “Desolation Row” will be available at iTunes tomorrow, but you can get a taste of it by heading over to this MTV.com article now.