My Chemical Romance becomes different band

My Chemical Romance is not only calling its new album The Black Parade, but the group is calling itself by that name as well. In an online "press conference," singer Gerard Way explained why My Chemical Romance had to take on another identity during the making of the record: "This was a really difficult album to make, and there was a certain point where it was so dark for us that it felt like we needed to become much more than brothers, we had to be there for each other in many more ways, and we also needed to become a new band. Normally a band says that every time they make a record, and in some ways they become a new band, but we really did it this time and became a different band."

My Chemical Romance will release The Black Parade on October 24th. The band will perform the first single, "Welcome to the Black Parade," tomorrow night (August 31st) on the MTV Video Music Awards pre-show.

The Black Parade follows up the group's platinum 2004 effort, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.

My Chemical Romance was pelted with bottles and other objects during the band's set at the Reading Festival in the UK on Sunday (August 27th), just two days after Panic! At The Disco suffered the same fate at the same event.