Pop punks My Chemical Romance — who split last year — have released their final track.
The previously unheard tune is called 'Fake Your Death', which should spawn all sorts of conspiracy theories among the band's rabid fanbase about how they haven't REALLY split up. Thanks, guys.
The track features on the group's 'best of' album, 'May Death Never Stop You'. Erstwhile frontman Gerard Way — who is a much, much better comic book writer than he is a rock star — released this statement about it last month:
"I consider 'Fake Your Death' to be the "last MCR song", and to me, it is absolutely the final fully realised collaboration between the members of the band. Oddly, or fittingly, it was written while the Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils and won the Stanely Cup, though this did not inform or inspire the song as I was unaware (along with James and Doug) that this was happening and have only a small interest in sports. After the game, the rest of the band had arrived at the studio where we added elements to its existing structure, fleshing it out some more, and it started to form.
"What was not so obvious at the time was that the song was, and would serve as, a eulogy for the band, though I should have known it from the lyrics. I think internally I did, as I felt an odd sense of sadness and loss after hearing back the words on top of the music. I also felt a strange sense of pride in how honest it was, and could not remember a band recording a song of this nature, being so self-aware. Ending felt like something honest, and honest always feels like something new.
"So it will exist, and it is no cowardly act to release something of this nature, but a service to those who believed in a band that did not compromise, and a wave goodbye to all. And yes, it is fucking heartbreaking.
"And while I don't believe the lyrics of the chorus today — I did at the time, which to me is a core ingredient to the music of MCR. And it is through that belief, and yours, that we were able to achieve many beautiful things."
