All of it sounds uneasy, and there’s a sense of pain and regret that runs throughout. On stomachaches, Iero is writing about his own physical anguish – he has been plagued by ill health from a young age, hence the title of the album – but also he’s singing about his friends, about their lives and about his. It’s why, since My Chemical Romance’s split, he has released a clutch of solo singles, released the antagonistic elctro-hardcore of Death Spells, collaborated with James Dewees on his Reggie And The Full Effect record and now put together what is his first official solo project under his own name. Instead, he says, making music is as natural to him as breathing or eating. It would be easy to assume that he deals with setbacks, problems and more traumatic issues – such as the break-up of his band – by retreating into music.īut that would be to assume wrong: because if you ask Iero, he denies it. It was he, too, who during an attack of writer’s block that afflicted the band during the making of Black Parade was the only member to write new music (the jungle-blues stomp of House Of Wolves). ![]() ![]() It was he who, following the exhausting but successful Black Parade period, dealt with tour burnout by going back on the road while the rest of the band contemplated whether they still wanted to play music at all.
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