Rock N Roll

Frank Iero, the MCR guitarist, has been involved with many bands (Pencey Prep, Hybrid, Sector 12, I Am a Graveyard, the Pole Smokin’ Five, Give Up the Ghost, Reggie and the Full Effect and a Cure tribute band called Love Cats) but was never a lyricist. So being the songwriter of his latest side project, Leathermouth, was a lot of change for him. A couple of his friends, who had been in other bands, were thinking about starting something. They’d already written and made crude recordings of three songs but never managed to write lyrics for it. Frank Iero volunteered and wrote all the lyrics in a week. Leathermouth was born. He shared,

“Two songs on the record, one’s called ‘Murder Was the Case They Gave Me’ … and the other one’s called ‘Bodysnatchers Forever,’ and it was weird, man. I was sitting in my apartment, playing the songs, and the words kind of came to me, and I was really proud of them too.”

Frank Iero explained that people coming to Leathermouth expecting it’ll be My Chemical Romance in sound are in for a rude awakening. He said, “I think that people that get into Leathermouth because of my past bands and stuff like that, I think they’ll be kind of bummed out, if that’s why they’re into it.” The My Chemical Romance guitarist also shrugged off the suggestion that this new band has a very metal kind of sound. He said Leathermouth is “just dirty rock and roll.” Live, “It’s just a lot faster.”

Tags: leathermouth, my chemical romance