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About 30 Seconds To Mars:
Following up on their incredibly successful sophomore release, A Beautiful Lie, 30 Seconds To Mars highly anticipated upcoming record, This Is War (EMI's Virgin Records) is set to hit stores on December 8th. The album was produced by Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails), Steve Lillywhite (The Rolling Stones, U2) and 30 Seconds To Mars.
In an innovative and exciting move, 30 Seconds to Mars' upcoming release, This Is War, will have 2,000 different album covers featuring individual photos of fans from around the world. 30 Seconds To Mars' Jared Leto (vocals, guitar), Shannon Leto (drums) and Tomo Milicevic (guitar) teamed up with their fan community, The Echelon, earlier this year to record sounds for the upcoming record in a groundbreaking event they dubbed, "The Summit." The band invited The Echelon members to travel to Los Angeles to take part in an impromptu recording session at Hollywood's Avalon Club. It was so successful that since then 30 Seconds to Mars decided to hold summits in 8 more countries across the world (Australia, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, Canada) in order to give their biggest supporters an opportunity to be a part of their new album.
Formed by brothers Jared and Shannon Leto, 30 Seconds to Mars have won numerous awards and accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV EMA's, an MTV Latin and Asia Award, a Fuse Award, and three Kerrang! Awards. 30 Seconds to Mars' sophomore record, A Beautiful Lie, hit platinum status after almost two years of heavy touring and winning fans over, one by one.
The media caught on too: Alternative Press raved that the band "...just might be rock's best-kept secret. He [Jared Leto] sings with a range and ease that makes cathedrals jealous". The Washington Post exclaimed, "hard-driving guitar riffs and powerful vocals carry this head banging outfit all the way to the rock-race finish line."
A Beautiful Lie spawned two Top 5 Modern Rock singles, "From Yesterday" and "The Kill" - which set a radio record for the longest-running hit in the history of Modern Rock radioplay when it remained on the national airplay chart for more than 50 weeks following its No.3 peak in 2006. The band's epic video for "From Yesterday" was the first American music video ever shot in the People's Republic of China. 30 Seconds To Mars have over 500 live performances under their belts since the release of A Beautiful Lie, including major festival shows like Lollapalooza in the United States, Holland's Pinkpop Festival and Japan's Summer Sonic, which has earned them a growing, loyal, global fan base. |
