Gerard Way 'never saw My Chemical Romance' lasting after Black Parade

Former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way revealed that he never expected the band to last past their seminal 2006 album The Black Parade.

Interest in the emo scene began to wane toward the end of the noughties. The 2010 release of Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, while critically-acclaimed, failed to reach the level of sales of its predecessor.

Curiously, Gerard Way revealed that creatively he was on a different path by that point, he said in an interview with NME: "I'm proud of the shows we played and the the music we made after The Black Parade but I definitely didn't have anything planned after the third album."

The band toured the release of their final studio album and by March 2013 officially split.

With My Chemical Romance behind him, Gerard Way was asked about his new musical direction as a solo artist.

"I love like Nick Cave and Morrissey, Brian Eno, especially those early glam-y records," he said. "Bowie , Iggy all those people PJ Harvey, Bjork. I thought about all those artists and though that's what I want my arc to be. I would be so lucky to have a quarter of what any of them have in terms of their story, their arc."