UNFD signs worldwide deal with My Chemical Romance guitarist

UNFD has signed a worldwide deal with Frank Iero, best known as the guitarist in My Chemical Romance.

His third solo album Barriers is set for a May 31 release.

Adopting the moniker Frank Iero & The Future Violents, his latest band features longtime collaborator Evan Nestor, Matt Armstrong (ex-Murder by Death), Tucker Rule (Thursday) and Kayleigh Goldsworthy (Golds) and Dave Hause (The Mermaid).

“Super excited to be joining the UNFD family,” said Iero about the signing.

“We’ve known each other for a long time and the opportunity to be finally working together with people who really understand the project and believe in it is the greatest thing you could ever ask for.”

Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, the 14-track album sees Iero tackling some of the barriers and obstacles on his creative path.

“It got me thinking about how we set up these obstacles around ourselves,” he expands.

“Sometimes they’re for protection and sometimes they’re to keep people out, and sometimes we even set them up so that we fail and we find solace in that failure.

“But whenever I find something that scares the shit out of me, that’s when I know I have to do it!

“So these songs are about experiences that were either walls.

“I wanted to break down or walls that I’d built up around myself in order to protect myself.

“But these songs were also things that I’d never attempted before but had always wanted to try.”

Lead-off single ‘Young and Doomed’ is released to all DSPs on March 21.

Iero’s credits include solo albums as frnkiero and the cellabration (2014’s Stomachaches) and as Frank Iero & The Patience (2016’s Parachutes).

He cut his teeth in post-hardcore stalwarts Leatherface, Pency Prep, industrial duo Death Spells and the platinum-selling My Chemical Romance.