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This Is War is the upcoming third studio album by 30 Seconds to Mars, due to be released on October 20 and 23rd November in the United States and in the United Kingdom retrospectively. This Is War is the first studio album by 30 Seconds to Mars for four years since A Beautiful Lie released in 2005.

Controversy

When the band decided to leave their Virgin/EMI record for a new label, EMI sued them for $30 million on account of the fact that the band had not given them the promised three records. The band's response was that no band had to be signed to a contract for more than 7 years, and they claimed they signed 10 years ago. Eventually, the band settled the matter and re-signed to EMI with Jared Leto saying this:

"There came a time where it was appropriate and important to end the fight. And we are very relieved and very excited to say that we have resolved our differences with EMI and that we have re-signed with EMI and that we'll be putting our new record out, probably, in September," he said. "And that's ... wow, that's the first time I'm saying that. Honestly, it feels pretty intense."

The Summit

During recording sessions, the band hosted a gathering in they called "The Summit" at the Avalon club in Hollywood. The purpose of this was so that fans could see how far into recording the band was, and maybe even participate in the recording. In an interview, frontman Jared Leto said this:

"The Summit was an experiment in our recording process, and we were just trying to think of ways that we could deepen the connection between ourselves and our family of fans around the world. We do that often, and think of ways to break the boundary. And we thought, 'How great would it be to invite the world to come and be a part of the next 30 Seconds to Mars album?"

"There were some things that were left-field sound experiments — using the group, the collective, as a musical instrument," he continued. "We did everything from percussive expression to whispering to things that were a little bit more familiar, like inviting the 1,000 people that were there to sing the chorus of a song. And those people who were a part of it all will be a part of the next 30 Seconds to Mars album. ... It was quite simply one of the best things we've done as a band.".

Further on in this interview, Jared revealed that album's style will be leaning more towards that of their self-titled debut than that of A Beautiful Lie, saying that "The longest song on there is, like, eight minutes. The shortest, probably five. ... I don't think we have one under five, that's for sure. I think we do a really good job at just chasing the feeling, the core of the song, and allowing the song the ability or right to go where it leads us, where it wants to go. The song dictates that, and we've been working on this collection of songs for 12 months, so we know them pretty well."

Collaboration with Kanye West and Brandon Flowers

During May, 2009, Kanye West posted a photo of himself, Brandon Flowers (the frontman of The Killers) and Jared Leto together and announced that the trio were working together on a song named "Hurricane".

Jared said that he "...had actually brought up some time ago, but it's pretty unbelievable that it actually happened," and went on to say that "He came by here, he was here in the studio, and we did some initial kind of listening, and he did some singing, and we knew we needed to kind of follow up and finish things, so I went over to Hawaii an engineer and a small crew, and we had a great time."

Track listing

The track listing was released on 4th September 2009.

1. "Escape"
2. "Night of the Hunter"
3. "Kings and Queens"
4. "This Is War"
5. "100 Suns"
6. "Hurricane" (ft. Kanye West)
7. "Closer to the Edge"
8. "A Call to Arms"
9. "Search & Destroy"
10. "Alibi"
11. "Stranger in a Strange Land"
12. "Equinox"

References

1. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1610285/20090429/30_seconds_to_mars.jhtml
2. http://www.myspace.com/thirtysecondstomars
3. ^ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1610134/20090428/30_seconds_to_mars.jhtml
4. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1610414/20090430/30_seconds_to_mars.jhtml
5. http://www.altpress.com/news/7844.htm

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