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The answer is no, so panic no more!! My Chemical Romance are not splitting up, just taking a break to carry on with the ‘normal’ things in life.

Normal things in life? As normal as they can get for the popular band.  Front man Gerard Way, who recently married girlfriend Lyn-Z, bass player from Mindless Self Indulgence, is taking time to enjoy marital bliss and work on a follow-up comic book to The Umbrella Academy as well as a ‘top secret’ graphic novel for DC Comics.

Mikey Way, bass guitarist and Gerard’s bro, has also started work on a comic book.  Ray Toro is gigging with a Weezer cover band and at the same time, arranging his wedding to fiancee Krista.  Bob Bryar, MCR drummer, is having a well deserved rest with his family in Chicago and Frank Iero, guitarist, is working on his project, Leathermouth.

In a recent interview with MTV, Gerard told them why they are taking a break from the band.

“We can’t make any more music unless we live.  When we get a chance, we’re going to get together and do some demos and start rolling. But we’re going to take it slow. I feel like we needed to be away for a while. People need to kind of miss us because there was a point in the last two-and-a-half years where you could have seen us at least once a month if you wanted.”

Planning has already started on their fourth album which is going to be a completely different sound to previous albums.

Gerard Way commented, “I’m already starting to get the ideas and the aesthetics and everything [for the record]. It’s [going to be] very different from The Black Parade.”

“It’s hard to say at this point, but musically, how Black Parade tapped into the glam, classic rock of Queen and Ziggy Stardust, this taps into something different - not punk, but maybe in its proto sense. The aesthetic - it is extremely different, and it is more stripped-down too.”

“It will be more direct, more about life, and have more social commentary in there.  That’s where it’s kind of heading now. It won’t be a ‘boohoo’ record about ‘Oh, we got famous,’ but a commentary on how the world is now.”