Second Approach End of September 2010, about ten months after later. Three days ago, a trailer for the new My-Chem-Album got released online. It’s name: Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys. The trailer features four protagonists: Gerard, Mikey and the two guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro. There’s no sign of black parade uniforms, instead My Chemical Romance look like four Tank Girls, the image gets enhanced by a flamboyant Rollerboy. In addition to that, there’s action in the style of Mad Max vs Power Rangers, a flair of 70s-Roadmovie like in Vanishing Point and the crue, raw vision of Grindhouse films. The reinvention of the band is completed. The light-shunning moth turned into a loud butterfly - firing laser guns.
Since the early hours of the mornings, My Chemical Romance (minus Frank, who is taking care of his new born twin girls) are answering questions of journalists. The setting is very luxurious: it’s the legendary Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood. We’re going to start right where we’ve left of ten months ago... with a comic, that turned into an album now.
“Yes, the album reflects the topics that were themes of the comic”, Gerard confirms. “The beautiful thing about the album is that there’s no superior story, there’s no concept.” Gerard, currently with red-dyed hair and a healthy tan is sitting on a couch again, this time without a cigarette in his hand. Ray and Mikey are supporting him. Or, rather, not. If someone has something to say, it’s only Gerard.
So, there’s no concept. But soon there’ll be a comic and a corresponding album. On the album, we meet a DJ called Dr. Death. He’s providing us with an intro, speaks a traffic announcement and moderates the whole spectacle. A trailer for the album is available and, by this time, a music video for the single Na Na Na, telling the story of our four heroes and their new alter egos Party Poison (Gerard), Kobra Kid (Mikey), Fun Ghoul (Frank) and Jet Star (Ray), got released as well. And that’s not a concept? “Well, yeah”, Gerard admits, “but what it’s supposed to be most of all is a big Pop-Art-experiment. In the course of the album, both us and the fans will add more and more details to the story. My co-author and I already have detailed ideas about what is going to happen in the comic itself. But we could also challenge everything, again. If we’re going to shoot scenes in the desert, for example, they are going to dictate where the comic will go.” Ohh-kay. Well, we are just going to wait for it instead of asking for more details. Otherwise we might get lost in a confusing universum à la Coheed and Cambria.
End of September 2010, about ten months after later. Three days ago, a trailer for the new My-Chem-Album got released online. It’s name: Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys. The trailer features four protagonists: Gerard, Mikey and the two guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro. There’s no sign of black parade uniforms, instead My Chemical Romance look like four Tank Girls, the image gets enhanced by a flamboyant Rollerboy. In addition to that, there’s action in the style of Mad Max vs Power Rangers, a flair of 70s-Roadmovie like in Vanishing Point and the crue, raw vision of Grindhouse films. The reinvention of the band is completed. The light-shunning moth turned into a loud butterfly - firing laser guns.
Since the early hours of the mornings, My Chemical Romance (minus Frank, who is taking care of his new born twin girls) are answering questions of journalists. The setting is very luxurious: it’s the legendary Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood. We’re going to start right where we’ve left of ten months ago... with a comic, that turned into an album now.
“Yes, the album reflects the topics that were themes of the comic”, Gerard confirms. “The beautiful thing about the album is that there’s no superior story, there’s no concept.” Gerard, currently with red-dyed hair and a healthy tan is sitting on a couch again, this time without a cigarette in his hand. Ray and Mikey are supporting him. Or, rather, not. If someone has something to say, it’s only Gerard.
So, there’s no concept. But soon there’ll be a comic and a corresponding album. On the album, we meet a DJ called Dr. Death. He’s providing us with an intro, speaks a traffic announcement and moderates the whole spectacle. A trailer for the album is available and, by this time, a music video for the single Na Na Na, telling the story of our four heroes and their new alter egos Party Poison (Gerard), Kobra Kid (Mikey), Fun Ghoul (Frank) and Jet Star (Ray), got released as well. And that’s not a concept? “Well, yeah”, Gerard admits, “but what it’s supposed to be most of all is a big Pop-Art-experiment. In the course of the album, both us and the fans will add more and more details to the story. My co-author and I already have detailed ideas about what is going to happen in the comic itself. But we could also challenge everything, again. If we’re going to shoot scenes in the desert, for example, they are going to dictate where the comic will go.” Ohh-kay. Well, we are just going to wait for it instead of asking for more details. Otherwise we might get lost in a confusing universum à la Coheed and Cambria.
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