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Four years between albums is a lengthy wait for a rock band. What took so long for Danger Days to see the light of day?<\/p>\n

I think the Black Parade tour went a little longer than it should have by about six months. We were beat, so we took a break for about a year, and started writing again February 2009. We had talked a lot about what the sound was going to be like, and in a way we created the sound of the record before we\u2019d even picked up our instruments.<\/p>\n

We were looking to do a more stripped-down version of the band\u2014we had done that cover of [Bob Dylan’s] \u201cDesolation Row\u201d for the Watchmen soundtrack, and that was a much rawer sound than you\u2019re used to hearing from My Chem. It was a response to the epic-ness of The Black Parade. The touring cycle was so hard for us physically and mentally, we saw that record and that sound as the enemy.<\/p>\n

When we got close to the end of mixing, we realized we didn\u2019t have a full album. So we got together with [producer] Rob Cavallo to record one or two more songs at the start of 2010, and when we recorded the song \u201cNa Na Na,\u201d it really opened things up for us. A lot of the flashes of creativity that you hear on Black Parade weren\u2019t evident on [the discarded material.] We wrote a few more, and after about four songs we realized we were knee-deep in a new record, and that was Danger Days.<\/p>\n

Commercially, The Black Parade was a massive success for My Chemical Romance, but in recent interviews, you guys talk about it as if you regret the whole thing ever happened. How did a platinum-selling album evolve into \u201cthe enemy?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a record I feel really proud of, and I don\u2019t like to talk shit on it at all. I think the regrets come from the amount of touring we did and how we set up that record, taking on the persona of this imaginary band, The Black Parade. That persona was very antagonistic, [both] to the audience and to the press. It was a negative vibe, and that was the state of mind we lived in for two years. If anything, that\u2019s where the regret comes from.<\/p>\n

At its core, The Black Parade was an album about dying. How much of the negativity can be attributed to the subject matter?<\/p>\n

You always have to listen to an album front to back to really get a sense of it, because the second half is where the \u2018deep cuts\u2019 are. With any record, most people only listen to the first four or five tracks. That\u2019s true for a lot reviewers and listeners. Their idea of your music is [based on] the first four of five tracks and how you look in the videos. While The Black Parade dealt with death and [dark] subject matter, at the end of the record is the song \u201cFamous Last Words,\u201d which to me is the light at the end of the tunnel. The song\u2019s message is very celebratory: \u201cGet out and live your life.\u201d The record plays out the way it does because it\u2019s a journey. And not a lot of people want to take that roller-coaster ride, they only have 15 minutes to spend on a record.<\/p>\n

Were you shocked with reaction of the British music press to The Black Parade?<\/p>\n

We were paying a lot of attention to the press\u2014it\u2019s really hard not to. And they skewed very negative. We were being labeled as some kind of death cult. It was [being said] we were leading some sort of suicide revolution. And all this bullshit really weighed on us. It took its toll on the band. They didn\u2019t get it. A lot of them deal in tabloid-ism and sensationalism. Papers like The Daily Mail, they\u2019re not listening to the record, they\u2019re going online and reading what other people are saying, and then it\u2019s filtered down until they come up with their story.<\/p>\n

We toured throughout Australia and Mexico, and we felt like we had targets on us. We were always going out there to prove something. That was the energy surrounding the touring of that record. We regret that all that stuff happened. There\u2019s no regret about the music.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My Chemical Romance: we are not a suicide death cult<\/strong><\/em>
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Four years between albums is a lengthy wait for a rock band. What took so long for Danger Days to see the light of day? I think the Black Parade<\/p>\n

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