The new album "This is War" is available now on iTunes featuring the single "Kings and Queens" purchase the album now Here!
For more information on the band go to: http://www.thirtysecondstomars.com/
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Dec 06, 01:26 PM"This is War" iTunes Pre-order with 2 Remix Tracks!Pre-order "This is War" on iTunes now and get 2 remix tracks! You'll instantly receive the single "Kings and Queens" with the pre-order.
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Nov 04, 09:52 PMTrailer for the new short film, "Kings and Queens" by Thirty Seconds to MarsStay tuned for the short film based on "Kings and Queens," the first single from Thirty Seconds to Mars' new album "This is War."
Watch the Trailer Here!
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Oct 23, 11:12 AMNight of the Hunter - 30 Seconds to Mars Treasure Hunts!Join in on the latest Night of the Hunter treasure hunt, happeing now in New York City! Find out more Here!
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Oct 12, 01:13 PM"Kings and Queens" Zane Lowe's Song of the Week!'Kings and Queens' is Zane Lowe's 'Song of the Week' this week! Tune into BBC Radio 1 HERE to check it out.
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Jun 26, 11:51 AMThe HiveFirst and foremost, MANY thanks to all who made it out to The Global
Summit this weekend. We’ve read the stories, seen the pictures and
wish we could have been there with you all. We look forward to hearing
your recordings and having you, THE ECHELON, be such an exciting part
of our new album.
We have another important announcement to make. We are launching a new
experimental project called "The Hive". Essentially, The Hive is a
collective that will be focused on spearheading, developing and
executing creative ideas to further the MARS experience, on developing
and pushing MARS missions worldwide, on rallying the troops and
spreading the good word online and offline about everything
THIRTYSECONDSTOMARS. If you are interested in being directly involved
with The Hive as a soldier or leader we are looking for you. We have
created a new forum on the Thirty Seconds to Mars message board
entitled, The Hive, so you may start to discuss any and all Mission
ideas, tactics, strategies and dreams. The first order of business The
Hive asks of you is to begin to identify ECHELON leaders around the
world you all think have the responsibility, initiative and passion
needed to help lead the charge for our brand new release.
The first offline location for The Hive will be in Los Angeles with
potentially more to follow worldwide. There will be times open for
Echelon to come work with us in LA and be a part of the plotting,
planning and execution.
As it has been said...."The war is coming..."
Keep an eye out for future updates and developments by reading The
Hive message board thread.
Provehito In Altum
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Feb 09, 04:45 PMHelp Us Build the International Mars Library and ArchiveWe are proud to announce the current construction of ATHENAEUM: THE INTERNATIONAL MARS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE (IMLA). We are looking for your creative contribution and asking you to send us your favorite photos (taken or found), articles (online and off), press, videos, links or anything else 30 Seconds to Mars related at 30secondstomarslibrary@gmail.com. Please make sure it's of the highest possible resolution, size and quality. Thank you.
As an example, we've included two of the most recent additions to the future IMLA, courtesy of Kerrang!
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Aug 17 2008, 08:39 PMA Letter From The Front: 30 Seconds to Mars / EMI (THE LAWSUIT)To our Friends and Fans,
Despite rumors to the contrary, 30 Seconds to Mars is NOT calling it quits. We are incredibly happy, healthy and very much together here, in Los Angeles, recording our new record. Besides this ridiculously overblown lawsuit (courtesy of Virgin/EMI), we are having one of the most inspiring, wonderful and exciting times that we've experienced to date. (More on that later...)
Beyond this distraction, we are so incredibly grateful to all of you around the world that have supported us so passionately. We would never consider stopping this just yet. These past few phenomenal years have been beyond imaginable and we owe every single bit of it to you. Thank you all for that!
So, as you may have heard we are being sued by our former record company for the ridiculously oversized, totally unrealistic and pretty silly (but slightly clever) sum of $30,000,000. Insane? Yea that's what we said too.
A little history...
We had been signed to our record contract for 9 years. Basically, under California law, where we live and signed our deal, one cannot be bound to a contract for more than 7 years. This is widely known by all the record companies and has been for years. In fact, so aware of it are they that they desperately try to make deals outside of California whenever possible. It is a law that protects people from lengthy, unfair, career-spanning contracts. This law also gave us the legal right to explore other possible opportunities.
Yes we have been sued by EMI. But NOT for failing to deliver music or for 'quitting'. We have been sued by the corporation quite simply because roughly 45 days ago we exercised our legal right to terminate our old, out of date contract, which, according to the law is null and void.
We terminated for a number of reasons, which we won't go into here (we'd rather not air any dirty laundry) but basically our representatives could not get EMI to agree to make a fair and reasonable deal.
A few things to note...
If you think the fact that we have sold in excess of 2 million records and have never been paid a penny is pretty unbelievable, well, so do we. And the fact that EMI informed us that not only aren't they going to pay us AT ALL but that we are still 1.4 million dollars in debt to them is even crazier. That the next record we make will be used to pay off that old supposed debt just makes you start wondering what is going on. Shouldn't a record company be able to turn a profit from selling that many records? Or, at the very least, break even? We think so.
That, and other issues, like the new regime at EMI firing most of the people we know and love, wanting to place advertisements on our website, EMI owning 100 percent of the masters of our record...forever, and basically having a revolving door of regimes at the company made it easy to not want to continue as is.
As the result of this takeover - and the firing of over 2000 employees - we have lost many of the people that were near and dear to us at Virgin/EMI and crucial to the success of 30 Seconds to Mars. A few of the great ones are still there, but it is hardly the same company we have known. After more than 5 regime changes in 9 years you'd think we would be used to the inconsistency, but the team that took the journey together for A Beautiful Lie was a very very special group of people and it's a huge loss that so many of them are gone. (Quick fact: There is not a single employee at Virgin Records who was working at the company when we signed.)
FYI Virgin/EMI was not required to make this lawsuit public or to list such an egregiously and stupendously large amount of mullah. In fact, they were not required to set any price even close to this. We did not want to take this public, but we felt it best to explain our point of view to you, our
friends and fans, in hope that you can better understand our point of view.
We would always do our best to avoid a fight, but sometimes it's important to stand up for what you believe in. We hope that by doing what's right we can help to change things for the better, for ourselves and possibly others.
P.S. We will always remain grateful to the people at Virgin/EMI who were so integral to our success. And we hope that, above all, we can find a resolution to this in as civil and kind a way as possible.
There are certainly more important things out there in the world to spend time and energy on.
To be continued...
Jared Leto
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Aug 06 2008, 09:35 AMKerrang! Awards Voting Coming to an End, MTV Awards Voting is Almost HereThanks to your incredible and passionate - but not surprising - support, 30 Seconds to Mars is tied for the lead at the 2008 Kerrang! Awards with 4 nominations! We now need your votes to help secure the actual awards. Click here to vote and don't stop until your fingers bleed!!!
Voting is live through this Thursday, August 7 and the Awards will be held two weeks later on August 21.
Take a half-day off and prepare to kick the voting into overdrive as the MTVAwards will open their nomination period for Best Rock Video during the F'N MTV broadcast (Friday, August 8th @ 8pm EST). Let's give A Beautiful Lie the showcase it deserves and spread the good word!
Getting ABL nominated and in turn sharing this very special video with as many as possible is great way to celebrate the project and propagate some truth about our planet.
You will be able the vote here once the voting period is active.
The MTV Awards are Live from Los Angeles on Sunday, September 7 @ 9pm EST.
