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This is War Once More: 30 Seconds to Mars Plan for a Fourth Album
Indie | Monday 14th May 2012 | Osh
Despite failing to deny internet-led hiatus rumours just a view months ago, 30 Seconds to Mars are set to record a fourth album they are currently working on.
After tremendous fan and chart success with 2009’s global hit ‘This is War’, along with a Guinness World Record for the longest tour period, with a whopping 300 show consecutively, this record is set to be a little different…
Frontman and Echelon chief, Jared Leto informed fans that the forthcoming record will be a “dramatic departure from the past” and hopes it will be “very orchestral, narrative, interactive and even more electronic than previous projects.” Never one to understate, Leto implies fans can hope to hear the familiar Mars sound they know and love, with a little something new thrown in.
With the Killers’ and U2’s producer Steve Lilywhite, amongst others, the band will mainly lay tracks down in Hollywood, as well as various places in Europe, India, Africa and the Californian Desert. Although, Perez Hilton has reported 30 Seconds to Mars have already written fifty potential songs. No date has been set for the yet-to-be-named album as yet.
The threesome will relaunch The Summit (with a 2.0 version); a Facebook and Twitter app, providing insight into the record’s formation and completion. After the $9.99 in-studio interactive digital experience, with an intimate live performance, a preview of the band’s live tour documentary, ARTEFACT, and a discussion with 30 Seconds to Mars, the Echelon-driven hype is crazier than ever. Leto explained, “We wanted to broadcast the show in a really high-quality social way, but when we started to look around, there wasn’t really a company out there that we could use to share this event.” Nothing to do with the extra cash then?
Mars have recently set up an International Centre for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences of Sound (ICAASS) to nurture up-and-coming talents, and are said to be “very excited” about this project, and their up-and-coming record.
For the latest updates from 30 Seconds to Mars, check out their blog at: http://thirtysecondstomars.thisisthehive.net/blog/
Marianne Calnan
