30 Seconds to Mars have been one of my favourite bands since I was thirteen. After enduring two kind of severe injuries in such a short period of time, I had to stop a lot of things I loved doing at the time to make sure I recovered-including my sport and my music. So while I was pretty much doing nothing, I went around discovering new music and BAM! Like that I discovered 30 Seconds to Mars. I was watching Video Hits (oh nostalgia) and the video clip for A Beautiful Lie came on and I was quite literally blown away and the rest is history I guess.
This is the band's 4th album, coming out just over three years after their epic This Is War- the album that shot the band into superstardom, as well as allowing them to gain a Guinness World Record for having over 300 shows all over the world for the one album (one of which I had the privilege of seeing in Melbourne 2010). Compared to their earlier two albums, 30 Seconds to Mars and A Beautiful Lie it definitely has the epic status, however it is not really up there with This Is War.
They definitely have songs though that are related to some of their earlier stuff-in my honest opinion Conquistador has elements of Night of the Hunter and Up In the Air-the song from the album that was released from up in space back in March.
Towards the end I found the songs were getting a tiny little bit repetitive, but hey, if we look at it this way at least it doesn't have a 14 minute song at the end of it, where over a third of that 14 minutes is silence a la A Beautiful Lie.
In anticipation of another world tour, and recently announcing an Australian Tour visiting my home city (and I tell you I will be there front and centre and with bells on!) I think they have done an amazing job with making such an amazing albums especially with the themes of love, lust, faith and dreams. If you don't feel the slightest bit empowered or ready to start a fight or something, then you need to re-evaluate your life.
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