My Chemical Romance went so deep into goth land during the recording of their new album Welcome to the Black Parade that they became a completely new group, singer Gerard Way tells Billboard. “There was a certain point where it was so dark for us that it felt like we needed to become much more than brothers and we also needed to become a new band” Way explains, (and further confuses.) Gerard claims that My Chem actually became a group called “Black Parade” while making the record, which tells the story of a character called “the Patient” who, on his deathbed, recalls being taken to a parade as a child by his father. All this back story is sort of freaking us out, but we’re looking forward to the record.