More details have emerged on the upcoming fourth studio album from My Chemical Romance, which is due for release in the spring of 2010. According to RollingStone.com, some members of the group are amazed that the record exists at all. Guitarist Frank Iero said that the band was so exhausted after touring behind its 2006 effort, The Black Parade, that "I thought the band was going to break up."

But the band rallied and began working almost a year ago with producer Brendan O'Brien, best known for his work with Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen. For the band's first album without a concept behind it, singer Gerard Way said they wanted to "harness everything that's great about this band into shorter songs. Almost protopunk, like the Stooges or the MC5."

The record doesn't have a title yet, but songs include "Trans Am," "Still Alive," "Save Yourself," "The Only Hope For Me Is You" and "Death Before Disco," which Way called the group's "Born To Run."

Way added that the group has pushed itself to sound like "an American rock band instead of a British rock band."

The Black Parade, which was about a fictional rock band of the same name, featured a more elaborate production style in the tradition of pomp-rock acts like Queen.