My Chemical Romance begonnen met opnames

My Chemical Romance is de studio in Los Angeles in gegaan voor de opnames van hun vierde studio album. Producer van het album is Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Billy Talent, Incubus). Het zal het eerste album worden van de band dat niet om één concept draait.

In een nieuwsbericht van Solid State Records wordt het album door de leden van de band omschreven:

"At this point, the best way to describe the new album is My Chemical Romance being the purest, most distilled version of itself," Way says. "No bells and whistles, as the focus has been on melody and songwriting. If it doesn't work in a room with just the five of us, we aren't trying to make it work in the studio with effects and string sections."

Adds guitarist Ray Toro: "I think the direction of the new album is a perfect mix of what we did on Black Parade and what we did on Revenge. After Black Parade, we were ready for a more aggressive sound, similar to Revenge, but even harder. Because we had toured behind Black Parade for so long, we wanted to do the complete opposite of that this time out, almost kind of de-construct ourselves."