By Ray Toro (mychemicalromance.com)

Mixing with our good buddy Rich Costey is going great. So far, he's mixed 9 songs, and they all sound ****ing stellar. He had an interesting process where he started out mixing some of the looser songs first, and then ramped up to the denser stuff. Our goal in mixing is to make it loud, and then make it louder then that. "Still Alive" was an early one, and he brought a real heaviness and aggressiveness to that song. Song is very drum and bass oriented, very different for us, but still rocks at the same time. A bit of Queen influenced guitar harmonies helps on that song.

"Save Yourself" was another early one, a mix of Judas Priest metal and 80's arena rock. That song went through a lot of different permutations, and finally we settled on this vibe that took us to new territory. We then got into a song called "The Only Hope For Me Is You," and that's where things really starting clicking with Rich. What was great was each song would just sound better and bigger than the last. As some of you had guessed from a twitter thing of mine (I refuse to call it a tweet), David Campbell did a bit of work on the record, and that's one of the songs he arranged for. Costey did this crazy effect with the strings going into the last chorus that blew me away. One of my favorite tracks.

"Trans Am" and "Death Before Disco" came next. "Disco" you may have heard at the Roxy shows or from Youtube videos of Summersonic. So happy with the way that mix turned out. I have to drive REALLY FAST when I listen to it. I think that's a hallmark of a great rock song. "Trans Am" is an epic take on "Born To Run" in 4 minutes. When we wrote this song, it was HUGE for us. Really opened our hearts and ears during the writing process. Frank, thanks for noodling and G, good ear to make a song out of it. You guys will love this song. Another favorite. Looking forward to more mixes, we got coming up "Kiss The Ring," which we also played at Roxy. I really can't wait for "Black Dragon Fighting Society," our ode to Misfits punk. Song kinda shreds!

Mixing is a great thing. The ideas continue to flow, and like they say, writing is never done. FYI any of the song titles mentioned are still tentative, you know how we like to change things up!!!

omg cant wait

This album is going to be FIRE!
Almost done b*tches!!!

KERRANG MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE

In this week’s Kerrang! magazine, My Chemical Romance give us an exclusive preview of the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2006’s The Black Parade.

Frontman Gerard Way has revealed that the emo superstars’ forthcoming album will be a vast departure from the epic grandeur and theatrics of The Black Parade.

“Our original game plan was to make a very quick, very visceral record,” Gerard told Kerrang!, and also revealed that, for the first time ever, this album will not have one overall concept.

“To be able to let go of your game plan is really hard,” he explains. “There were many times where we had to really move on our feet very quickly and say, ‘No, the album’s taking a turn and we need to accept it, because if we fight it we’ll end up with a record that doesn’t make any sense’.”

“Everything is taking so much longer, in a really great way,” he added. “We’ve never been able to go through the songs like this and get things as great as we possibly can. It’s always been like, ‘You’ve got three months to record and two weeks to mix, then you’re back on an airplane to go tour again!’. This time, we afforded ourselves the luxury of exploring every song.”

For the full interview, pick up a copy of this week’s Kerrang! magazine (in stores today).

Emo superstars?

I hope they can pull another Helena, Teenagers and Welcome To The Black Parade - or songs that are equally good or better!

Jesus Christ! I love the titles.

I want this new album so bad.

Oh no please! Teenagers is ****
Worst song ever.

Looking forward to this! Hope they'll never disappoint!

ROLLING STONE SCAN:

Teenagers is their worst single ever.

I want that magazine "Rolling Stone" November edition right?
The album will be amazing.

Please don't go Emo again

Please do something like Im Not Okay, Helena, Ghost Of You, Teenagers...

Their last album was SUCH a disappointment...the 1st two records were best. Here's to hoping this effort is a good one... *crosses fingers*

NEW COVER FOR "ALTERNATIVE PRESS"

http://www.altpress.com/apmag/258.htm

Yeah, agree
I want a new "Bullets"

omg! what the hell happened to frank he looks so fat
anyway can't wait to hear something new

GOd! I need something new from them!