My Chemical Romance start new album

My Chemical Romance have started work on their new album.

Frontman Gerard Way revealed that lyrics have already been written for the follow-up to 2006's Welcome To The Black Parade.

"I was pretty inspired so I do have a collection of stuff that I've written since being off the road," he told Radio 1.

"This is our second time getting together and we're going to start banging material together and see what happens."

He added: "We haven't chosen a path yet. It's all over the map in terms of what's there. It's going to be less layered than 'Black Parade' - I do expect it to be a little more raw.

"It's really nice to get a fresh perspective, we really needed to have that time off to live life and do some things and simply not have to tour or worry about making music."

The singer added that he hopes the new record will be released by the end of the year.

"I'm hoping for something to happen in a very fast way, that feels very natural and that doesn't have a lot of noodling all over it," he said.

"That's the goal, to get in there and have this rapid and visceral recording experience. To tour on it almost right away on it would be fun and not kind of drag it out like last time."

The band recently covered Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row' for the soundtrack to movie The Watchmen.