My Chemical Romance will feature on the cover of January 2010’s issue of Alternative Press magazine as the most anticipated album of the year. Not only that, but each band member will also have their own cover. Subscribers to the magazine will receive a special edition with all 5 members. If you want to get your hands on the special edition, you can subscribe now at altpress.com. Check out the rest of the covers in the gallery below.

Four brand new studio pictures have been added to the new media section at MyChemicalRomance.com. They have been added to the gallery, check them out.

An article was posted at RollingStone.com earlier this week. In it, Gerard reveals how The Stooges and MC5 influenced the new album.

“We wanted to harness everything that’s great about this band into shorter songs, almost protopunk, like The Stooges or the MC5.”

Gerard also admits that the band nearly split up after touring The Black Parade in May last year.

“I thought the band was going to break up.”

The rest of the article briefly discusses their new musical direction and a few song names. You can read it all at RollingStone.com. NME.com also posted an article earlier today summing up the interview, nothing new, just a round up.

Here are two pictures of Gerard, Lindsey And Bandit taken on Halloween last month. They were originally posted on Lindsey’s Twitter page on November 3rd. They have both been added to the gallery.

My Chemical Romance are in the current issue of Kerrang! magazine. The double page spread features an in studio exclusive with the guys.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE! We join My Chemical Romance in the studio for an exclusive first listen to to the as-yet-untitled follow-up to their mega-selling 2006 album, The Black Parade!.

The next issue is out this Wednesday (18th November), so grab a copy quick while you can. Head on over to Kerrang.com to find out more about the current issue.

Gerard recently spoke to Kerrang! magazine, revealing that the new album has no overall concept.

“Our original game plan was to make a very quick, very visceral record. To be able to let go of your game plan is really hard. There were many times where we had to really move on our feet very quickly and say, ‘No, the album’s taking a turn and we need to accept it, because if we fight it we’ll end up with a record that doesn’t make any sense’. Everything is taking so much longer, in a really great way. We’ve never been able to go through the songs like this and get things as great as we possibly can. It’s always been like, ‘You’ve got three months to record and two weeks to mix, then you’re back on an airplane to go tour again!’. This time, we afforded ourselves the luxury of exploring every song.”

The original article was posted at Digital Spy on Friday 13th, click here to see that.

My Chemical Romance have set up an official Twitter account at twitter.com/MCRofficial. I have added the account to the “Latest MCR Twitter” section in the sidebar. The most recent tweet by either, MCR, Frank, Mikey, Gerard or Ray will be displayed there.

My Chemical Romance will be playing a “special club show” in Sydney, Austrailia on Thursday, February 25th 2010 with The Get Up Kids. More information on the show can be found here. Tickets will be available from Friday, November 20th 2009 at Ticketek.com here.

Dark Horse are offering The Umbrella Academy issue 1 of volume 3 for free as an iPhone app for a limited time. Download it here (opens iTunes).

In an interview with offbeat.com, The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne recalls an incident during My Chemical Romance’s set at the 2006 Voodoo Music Experience, where a young girl had her teeth knocked out.

…the worst thing I saw was watching a 14-year-old girl get her teeth knocked out during My Chemical Romance. But she was very happy because she was in the front row.

For the full interview click here.