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Owners: Jen and Rhi

Staff: Joana, Konnie, Michele,Nadia, Christina, Mero

Layout: EYF Designs

Online Since: March 2008

All info thanks to A Modern Myth

The Members

 

JARED LETO - Guitar, Vocals

Jared J. Leto

Born: Dec. 26, 1971

 

 

SHANNON LETO - Drumms

Shannon K. Leto

Born:  March 9, 1970

 

 

TOMO MILICEVIC - Lead guitar, Keyboard

Tomislav L. Milicevic

Born: Sept. 3, 1979

 

Bio

Welcome to the universe. Exploding with atmosphere, power and melody, their songs are at once apocalyptic and uplifting, filled with characters who battle with alienation, paranoia and dark obsessions, while envisioning their own escape from this world.
30 Seconds To Mars is a captivating, imaginative new band from Southern California. They co-produced their self-titled Immortal/Virgin album with the legendary Bob Ezrin and newcomer Brian Virtue (Jane’s Addiction). They sought out Ezrin because they grew up listening to his groundbreaking work with Pink Floyd, KISS and Alice Cooper and they felt he was the only one who could help them capture the size and scope of what they wanted to accomplish on their debut recording. The band’s widescreen sound is adrenalized and nuanced, balancing huge guitars with anthemic vocal lines and organic synthesizers with electronic underpinnings.
Even before the album was released, the buzz was so strong Puddle of Mudd took the unusual step of inviting 30 Seconds To Mars to open a six-week tour for them in the spring of 2002, even though they were totally unknown and no one had yet heard their music on the radio.
Drawing on influences ranging from masters like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Rush to other important artists such as Brian Eno and The Cure, 30 Seconds To Mars transcends the chaos of the modern world by allowing listeners to imagine themselves away from it. The band’s very name implies the accelerated society we live in, suggesting that an escape may be as close as a few seconds away. Mars hovering above us has always been an iconographic image, not to mention being the God of War. But this is not science fiction. 30 Seconds To Mars’ songs are real stories and real moments that examine personal human experience. Lyrically, the songs are filled with metaphors and moments of fantasy that capture the imagination.
In songs such as the dynamic “Capricorn (a brand new name),” with its reference to a mysterious disappearance, and the foreboding “End Of The Beginning,” with its soaring vocals and intense driving rhythm, 30 Seconds To Mars draws a startlingly unique mood rather than a picture. Relishing the challenge of the artist’s duty, rather than simply representing the obvious, the band thrusts itself into the sonic atmosphere they’ve created, leaving their own indelible mark. In the provocative “Oblivion,” pulsating guitar and keyboards lead into the frantic warning, “Everybody run now, everybody run now.” Powerful vocals, potent guitars and a dramatic narration drive “Buddha For Mary,” the story of “a different girl” who “always liked to fly” and had “a thing for astronauts.” Living life on Mars, she is urged to, “leave the politics to madmen.”
30 Seconds To Mars retreated to the isolation of Wyoming’s big sky country to record the album. The band and Ezrin chose an empty warehouse lot on 15,000 acres, striving for the precise location that would enhance their sound. An intense period of preproduction began, starting with an almost obsessive examination of close to 50 songs. After an initial period of chaos, a fruitful relationship bloomed between the musicians and producer, leading to an artistically rewarding work atmosphere. The expansive frontier helped feed their imagination and their playing. Although the songs had already been written, nothing was left untouched as they massaged them frame-by-frame into distinguished guitar riffs and tones and sculpted every last note and detail to achieve their goal.
While the subjects of their songs are engaged in their own searches, 30 Seconds To Mars is involved in a search of their own to produce something unique in today’s world of disposable music--something with depth and substance, a work that is built to last.
[Mission accomplished.] The Kill is the longest running single on the Modern Rock Charts in the States.
- Bio courtesy of Virgin/Immortal Records

Discography

30 SECONDS TO MARS

Immortal Records, Virgin

Songs: 11 (+1 hidden)

Release: 30 September 2002

Produced by: Bob Ezrin with Brian Virtue & 30 Seconds To mars

Other info: Some versions of this CD conatins Enhanced Material

01. Capricorn (A Brand New Name)

02. Edge Of The Earth

03. Fallen

04. Oblivion

05. Buddha For Mary

06. Echelon

07. Welcome To the Universe

08. The Mission

09. End Of The Beginning

10. 93 Million Miles

11. Year Zero

 

A BEAUTIFUL LIE

Virgin

Songs: 10 (3 bonus + one hidden)

Release: 30 August 2005

Produced by: Josh Abraham & 30 Seconds To Mars

Other info: Copy Protected by the lable

01. Attack

02. A Beautiful Lie

03. The Kill

04. Was It A Dream

05. The Fantasy

06. Savior

07. From Yesterday

08. The Story

09. R-evolve

10. A Modern Myth

Videography

CAPRICORN (a brand new name)

30 Seconds To Mars

Relese: 15/8/2002

Run time: 4,04

Director:


EDGE OF THE EARTH

30 Seconds To Mars

Relese: 22/3/2003

Run time: 4,37

Director:

ATTACK

A Beautiful Lie

Relese: 27/09/2005

Run time: 3,21

Director: Paul F'Dor

THE KILL

A Beautiful Lie

Relese: 13/05/2006

Run time: x,xx - 5,45

Director: "Bartholomew Cubbins"

versions: 5

FROM YESTERDAY

A Beautiful Lie

Relese: 11/20/2006

Run time: 5,22 - 13,30

Director: "Bartholomew Cubbins"

versions: 3

Former Memebers

MATT WACHTER - Bass, Keyboard

Matthew G. Wachter

Born Jan. 7, 1976

Left the band after the El paso, Texas show March 1st 2007 to spend more time with his family back home.

Now: Is the new bassist of Angels & Ariwaves.

 

 

SOLON BIXLER - Guitar

Left the band in 2003 due to issues primarily related to touring. Replaced by Tomo Milicevic.

 

 

 

KEVIN DRAKE - Guitar

Left the band in 2002 due to issues primarily related to touring.