Gerard Way, lead singer of New Jersey emo outfit My Chemical Romance, has revealed that the band’s fourth LP won’t follow a “concept”, as per their previous releases.

According to the “Teenagers” singer – who’s currently in the process of adapting his comic book series, The Umbrella Academy, for the big screen – the follow-up to 2006’s Welcome To The Black Parade won’t be inspired by a “definite story”.

“I said that during ...Parade, but I still think I had something to work out. I think I had to get it out of my system, as far as writing concept records,” Way confessed to MTV. “I had to at least do one more before I stopped doing them. Obviously, they’ll always be cohesive though. The songs need to fit together, that’s what makes a great album.”

Although the band hasn’t hit the studio as yet, Way says they’ll be using their live show as a starting point for the new record. “I think it’d be interesting to hear what the band sounds like recorded at least somewhat in those parameters of a live set,” he reckons. “The song we did for [the movie] Watchmen [a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row”] in a lot of ways is a really good test-run or experiment, at least sonically.”