My Chemical Romance have released their first new song since 2014.
“The Foundations of Decay” is an epic that clocks in at six minutes. Check out a visualizer that the band posted for the track on YouTube.
Lead singer Gerard Way had told Rolling Stone last year about new music he had been working on, but wouldn’t say if it was for a solo project or for My Chemical Romance.
“[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,”
The new track isn’t a total surprise, as the band is finally starting its reunion tour on Saturday in St. Austell, England after over two years of pandemic delays. Plus they will be hitting the festival circuit including headlining Riot Fest in Chicago this September.
