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My Chemical Romance have described their new album as "a missile directed at rock and roll". 

The group, who release their new albumDanger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys this week, also insist that they stand by descriptions they made of the LP before it was finished. 

"Part of the problem was we tried to define the record before we made the record, and it's not all our fault," guitarist Frank Iero told MTV. 

"Everyone kept asking us, 'Oh, what's it going to be?' And when we said, 'Oh, we don't know,' they're like, 'Well, whaddya mean? What's it going to be? Can you speculate?' And it's like, 'Well, it's going to be this,' and when we found out what that is, it changed." 

He continued: "At first, we said, 'It's a love letter to rock and roll,' and we found out that the best way to love rock and roll is to shoot it in the head. So we made a record that was like a missile directed at rock and roll. 

"It just started to change and evolve, and then the band evolved at the same time. And I think that's the way you have to make a record: in a very organic way."

Danger Days is on course for a top ten placing on this Sunday's UK chart.