{"id":13035,"date":"2022-05-12T23:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T23:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/my-chemical-romance-return-with-new-music-the-foundations-of-decay\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T23:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T23:18:17","slug":"my-chemical-romance-return-with-new-music-the-foundations-of-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/my-chemical-romance-return-with-new-music-the-foundations-of-decay\/","title":{"rendered":"My Chemical Romance Return With New Music, ‘The Foundations of Decay’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After an eight-year wait, My Chemical Romance are finally back with a new song, “The Foundations of Decay.” It’s a vintage blast of MCR – a sprawling, six-minute epic that blends to-the-rafters emo rock with clever twists and turns into hardcore and prog. <\/span><\/p>\n

The arrival of \u201cThe Foundation of Decay\u201d comes as My Chemical Romance prepare to finally launch their long-awaited reunion tour. After disbanding in 2013, the group <\/span>announced their return<\/span> in fall 2019 and <\/span>played a single show<\/span> that December, but the first wave of Covid-19 forced them to <\/span>put their touring plans on hold<\/span>. The dates were initially rescheduled for 2021 but <\/span>pushed again<\/span> because of ongoing Covid concerns. The band is now set to launch a UK and European tour this month, with a North American leg beginning Aug. 20 in Oklahoma City.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite all the tour plans, My Chemical Romance hadn’t expressly said whether or not they would be releasing new music (an <\/span>ostensibly new instrumental track<\/span> was featured in a Jan. 2020 teaser for the initial reunion shows). Still, frontman Gerard Way did reveal in an <\/span>interview last year<\/span> that he’s been working on songs, though he didn’t specify whether they were for MCR, a solo project, or something else entirely. <\/span><\/p>\n

“[W]hat’s been working lately is sitting with [engineer] Doug [McKean], working on the music, and then I’ll just go over to my office – which used to be Marion Peck’s painting studio, and I love that room – and I will sit while Doug mixes, tweaks, edits, programs more drums. . . I’ll literally sit there and I will write as close as possible to what I think are gonna be either the final lyrics, or at least what I’m comfortable singing at that moment, \u201dhe said.<\/span><\/p>\n

My Chemical Romance’s last studio album, <\/span>Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys<\/span><\/em>was released in 2010. Following their break-up, they released the compilation <\/span>May Death Never Stop You <\/span><\/em>in 2014, a greatest hits set that featured one new song, “Fake Your Death.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n