In this exclusive new interview, we sit down with Gerard Way, Ray Toro, Mikey Way, and Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance to discuss everything that went into the making of their recently-released LP Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. They also get really deep about comic book genius Grant Morrison. Solid stuff all around. Hit it after the jump, guys.

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Gerard talks about naming Danger Days
Wednesday November 24, 2010 | Posted by: Jeff

Gerard talks about naming the new album, 'Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.' For MCR exclusives watch 'The Ride' Saturday, Nov. 27th at 11p/10c.

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In this time of frenetic, synthesized pop, America’s great rock hope has to be My Chemical Romance, whose new album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, was released on Monday, November 22. Formed in 2001, the New Jersey-based four-piece broke big in 2004 with the album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and its anthemic single "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)," which was delivered by frontman Gerard Way in his trademark, hyperphonic singing style.

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My Chemical Romance talks about their long awaited album Days Danger: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and much more. Listen to the entire uncut interview!

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In the final part of our interview, My Chemical Romance talk about Bowie, costumes and partying at the end of the world.

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In 2006, My Chemical Romance released their darkly ambitious concept album, The Black Parade, and thus became the self-proclaimed (as well as fanbase-proclaimed) saviors of rock 'n' roll and life as we knew it. And then...they just went away. Four years later, no new MCR music was forthcoming (other than a 2009 Bob Dylan cover on the Watchmen soundtrack)...and loyal followers began to fret as breakup rumors swirled, longtime drummer Bob Bryar departed the group in the middle of recording Parade's follow-up, and MCR were unjustly accused of being a negative influence on impressionable young listeners. For a while, it actually seemed like MCR would never, ever return from the blackness. Was it possible that they wouldn't save the world after all? Where were My Chemical Romance when we needed them most?

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My Chemical Romance are back with a new album, new look, and new vitality, landing the New Jersey emo-punk band on the cover of SPIN's December issue. Read an excerpt from the cover story here.

SPIN photo director Michelle Egiziano and photographer Ture Lillegraven met up with My Chemical Romance at Los Angeles' Pink Motel, a '50s joint often used in movies and music videos (like Cee-Lo's latest). See exclusive photos and read commentary from Lillegraven about the cover shoot here.

We also sat down with singer Gerard Way, bassist Mikey Way, guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro to ask them fans questions we received via Twitter and Facebook.

Watch the video below, in which the quartet talk about everything from their worst hairstyle to the softness of Gerard's lips, along with footage of the band posing at the photo shoot.

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It is My Chemical Romance day at the Warner Bros. Records complex in Burbank, California.

The band – Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Mikey Way – are gathered out in front of the sprawling WB campus. Some kind of 4-wheel drive is parked nearby and they’re all eagerly leaning in to look inside.

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The band emerges from a dark period (including a scrapped record) with a danceable album inspired by frontman Gerard Way's comic-book ideas.
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High in his ridgeline home, sitting on a porch that feels like a ledge, Gerard Way peered through cigarette smoke and the late-afternoon Pasadena haze as he searched his memory for the moment when his band, My Chemical Romance, shed its skin. "I think," he said with a world-weary chuckle, "the liberating moment is when we decided that we were allowed to make a dance record."

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Gerard, Frank, Mikey and Ray discuss the "creation process" of their new album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and how being from Jersey gives them a bit of an edge.

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The guys from My Chemical Romance are continuing their colorful, 'Mad Max'-inspired battle in their latest video for 'Sing.'

The first installment of this trend appeared in the band's video for 'Na Na Na,' in which the members of MCR and a young boy take part in laser duels and car chases throughout a barren wasteland. This time around, the punk rockers and their warriors-in-training are fighting against masked villains in a city.

"Our video for 'Sing' picks up where the 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)' video left off," singer Gerard Way tells Spinner. "We can't wait for you all to see the next visual installment of our album 'Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.'"

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My Chemical Romance’s latest effort isn’t so much an album release as a well orchestrated apocalyptic art event. With the advent of listening parties the band last night offered fans worldwide an exclusive preview of the album as hosted by the elusive Dr. Death Defying.

Apparently this is the bands departure from concept albums, but you tell me, fans are ‘killjoys’, areas are ‘zones’, enemies are ‘draculoids.’ Now personally I don’t care about this, they are great at what they do and this whole new world is utterly engrossing, so why change? Though this is still a concept album, it’s a massive leap from their previous sound with everything bright, poppy, and dripping electro from its very core.

Within the first three songs two singles are showcased. The world has already heard ‘Na Na Na’ and is undoubtedly sick of having it infused in their brains, but ‘Sing’ is relatively new and I’m sure it will sneak its way into the charts. Structured like a 30 Seconds To Mars song it seems a bit too epic for such an early place on the album, but it does have some more traditional My Chem breakdowns thrown in.

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Band went through a lot of changes while making the just-released album.
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My Chemical Romance's Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is, on the surface, yet another concept album from a band that seemingly makes nothing but concept albums. It's a daring, DayGlo-addled story about a band of outlaws — that would be, of course, the titular Killjoys — battling an oppressive corporation in a postapocalyptic future world (or something like that).

But if you dig a little deeper, past the costumes and car chases and down to the nuts and bolts of how it came to be, you quickly learn that Danger Days is a lot more than just a work of fiction. Its creation was, in all honesty, much stranger than anything frontman Gerard Way ever could have written.

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In Part 2 of our My Chemical Romance Podcasts, MCR's Gerard and Mikey Way answer your questions.

Watch it as a streaming YouTube clip or click on the link below to download it as an MP4 for your iPod or portable media player.

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On G4's X-Play, Adam Sessler sat down with My Chemical Romance, who's song "Plantetary (GO!)" appears on the Gran Turismo 5 soundtrack. Band members Frank Iero and Mikey Way talked GT5 and how game soundtracks have influenced them and their driving throughout history.

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To celebrate the release of their new album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, My Chemical Romance sat down with Breesays to talk about tour plans, making and breaking rules and growing up with their fans.

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My Chemical Romance lock and load Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys with some of the most haunting, yet hopeful music of their career.

The band—Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Mikey Way and Ray Toro—crafted an incendiary, infectious and inimitable post-apocalyptic tale that's as memorable as any classic album or film, for that matter. The record has got a lot in common with Blade Runner, in terms of posing all kinds of big philosophical questions about what it means to be human. At the same time, there's an elegant heaviness to every aspect of Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys which instantly evokes The Who's Quadrophenia. In essence, it's one of those perfect rock albums that come along so rarely and have the power to alter the course of pop culture forever. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the album of the year, welcome to Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys.

My Chemical Romance sat down with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys. The band discusses hearkening back to The Who, which director would be perfect to helm the My Chemical Romance movie, some favorite lines on the record and so much more.

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Tarantino, Art Is The Weapon, and Dr. Death Defying...

GERARD WAY: And I think I realized: wow, I'm in a band with my best friends in the world and they're all super fucking smart and they're all super artistic. Let's use that. Let's make this record about the art. Like, let's make art a weapon and like, we really do that, you know? So that's something I want to say about the album.

FRANK IERO: I totally agree.

MIKEY WAY: Yeah. We all have like hidden talents. Like Frank, he's an amazing photographer.

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