Early last year, electronic dance music fulcrum DEADMAU5 and My Chemical Romance frontman GERARD WAY teamed up to record "Professional Griefers," one of 2012's best singles. While both men built their formidable reputations coming up through different cultures, these days, they'd rather pile tons of rulebooks on top of said communities, pour gasoline on them and watch them burn.

INTERVIEW: JASON PETTIGREW/PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: AARON SECHRIST

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Chemical Reactions
Ten years ago, My Chemical Romance were just "a bunch of dorks" from New Jersey. Then they made debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love and set off on the path to superstardom. Tom Bryant revisits the start of the romance...

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Please thank alpheratz for transcribing this for us as I woke up with some manner of repetitive stress injury and it hurt to type.

Gerard Way: Glam Rock

My Chemical Romance's frontman grew up a metalhead, but when he heard Iron Maiden's lead singer, Bruce Dickinson, cover Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes," he discovered a whole other world. "I knew I had to find out more," Way says. "To some people, glam is just about makeup. To me, it's a very magical thing--almost like witchcraft."

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From the December 9, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone (RS1119). Many thanks to tabula_x_rasa for the scan!

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Kerrang Two-Part Exclusive Interview
posted by Jeff on Oct 5, 2010 10:46am

The new issue of Kerrang! magazine featuring part 1 of an exclusive interview with MCR is in out now. Part two of the interview comes out in next week's issue on October 13th.

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In tomorrow's Kerrang! magazine, we publish the first part of our world exclusive interview with My Chemical Romance.

In it, the band talk openly about their new album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and how the pressures of touring nearly forced them to split up.

"There was injury upon death upon illness [during The Black Parade tour]," guitarist Frank Iero tells Kerrang!. "It really felt like we were being run along a cheese-grater. We were leaving bits of ourselves all over the world!

"When something drains you as much as it did after Black Parade, you end up not knowing if you want to do it anymore," he adds. "You still have the love, but maybe not the want. There was something in the back of my head asking, 'Is this going to happen again? Are we done?'."

To read the full interview, make sure you pick up a copy of this week's Kerrang! magazine, in stores tomorrow.

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