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Album 1 30 STM

City Of Angels

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Symbols

Triad

Emotions

Album 4 Love Lust Faith + Dreams 23

Album 3 This Is War

Album 2 A Beautiful Lie

Tomo Milicevic

ALTERNATIVE ROCK

Alternative rock music is really a name given to rock music that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit any other genre. However, the technical meaning is usually any rock music that descewnded from punk rock. A lot of rock music has been classified as alternative rock music even though some of these did not exactly fit the

In the 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s REM was making their start in alternative rock music. Most of their airtime was given by college radio stations. This is where their loyal fan base started. However, their commercial success started at about the time that alternative started to really become popular in the 1990â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The popularity

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of alternative rock music came about after the grunge period. Grunge was a type of alternative rock music that denounced commercialism. This movement started in Seattle, Washington and soon took the world by storm. This was ironic since it was this type of music that helped to create the commercial success

ALTERNATIVE ROCK meaning. Alternative rock music became popular in the 1990â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s but the history or alternative rock music goes back farther than that. Before Nirvana brought alternative rock music to the mainstream audience, the music genre had been gaining popularity with the college crowds and music underground.

for alternative rock music. Bands such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In fact, Alternative rock music entered the mainstream earlier in Britain than it did in the United States. This gave alternative bands a broader venue even before the popularity of alternative music in the United States.

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30 Seconds T 30 Seconds to Mars (also commonly stylized as 30 Seconds to Mars) is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. The band consists of Jared Leto (lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards), Shannon Leto (drums, percussion) and Tomo Milicevic (lead guitar, bass, strings, keyboards, other instruments). Thirty Seconds to Mars started in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, as a collaboration between brothers Jared Leto and Shannon Leto, which had been playing music together since their childhood.The duo later expanded to a four piece when they added guitarist Solon Bixler and bassist Matt Wachter to the line-up. Additional guitarist Kevin Drake, who first auditioned for the part of bassist, also joined the band as a touring musician.

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To Mars

The band played its first concerts under different names, before finally settling on the name «Thirty Seconds to Mars», which was taken from a rare manuscript titled Argus Apocraphex. When Thirty Seconds to Mars first started, Jared refused to let his position of Hollywood actor be used to promote the band. By 1998, the group performed gigs at small American venues and clubs. Thirty Seconds to Mars had been in the works for a couple of years, with Leto writing the majority of their songs. During this period, the band recorded demo tracks such as «Valhalla» and «Revolution», or «Jupiter» and «Hero», which later appeared on the band’s debut album as «Fallen» and «Year Zero» respectively, but also «Buddha for Mary». Their work led to a number of record labels being interested in signing Thirty Seconds to Mars, which eventually signed to Immortal Records. In 1999, Virgin Records entered into the contract. Thirty Seconds to Mars launched a website, called abeautifullie.org, to provide information about environmental issues and ways to participate in environmental activities. People can make donations through the site to support the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 2006, Jared Leto created the cover art for The 97X Green Room: Volume 2, a compilation of live music that includes a Thirty Seconds to Mars song, which proceeds from the sales benefited The Nature Conservancy. During their Welcome to the Universe Tour, the group worked to develop strategies that would minimized fuel consumption determined to offset the impact that the tour would had on the environment. In June 2008, the band joined Habitat for Humanity to work on a home being repaired and renovated through the Greater Los Angeles Area’s «A Brush With Kindness» programme. In advance of the build, the band organized an auction of «build slots» to give fans the opportunity to volunteer alongside them. In less than a week, six extra workers were enlisted and over $10,000 was raised to fund additional Habitat for Humanity projects. Thirty Seconds to Mars fans, termed as the Echelon, started several philanthropic organizations and projects with the purpose of supporting various charities and humanitarian causes. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Thirty Seconds to Mars raised $100,100 for Haitian relief through a charity auction. The band has also supported the Haitian population through the Echelon project «House for Haiti» and Hope For Haiti Now telethon special. The group auctioned a quantity of items raising funds to help the Red Cross assist people affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

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in the music industry. However, fate had other all roles in a couple of films were so well received

his major break in the TV show, My so-called life. red has won accolades for his acting skills in films such

rrupted, The Thin Red Line, Fight Club and Requiem for a n 1998, Jared finally started his own band called 30 Seconds

rs with his brother Shannon Leto. As a popular musician and ding actor, Jared Leto is reported worth $40 million annually. Most of

his earnings come from his acting roles both on television and the big screen. Apart from this, Jared’s band 30 Seconds to Mars is also hugely popular among

teens world wide, and has till date sold millions of copies of each of the four

albums that it has released. In 2011 Leto was made the face of Hugo Boss’s

new perfume for men. Jared is known for his love of guitars and is quite fond of

collecting custom made guitars. He is known to use two Steve McSwain Guitars, one white and one black, called the ‘Pythagoras’ and the ‘Artemis’ respectively. Apart from these he also uses the Gibson SG 61’Reiusse’ and a Gibson Maestro guitar. He is also known to be particular about the acoustic equipment he uses and is reportedly partial to the Messa/Boggie amps and speakers. The affluent artist 6n alive in 2007. He loves drinking hot chocolate and eating popcorn while watching TV at home. His hobbies are diverse and include painting, photography, song writing and skateboarding. While he has topped many lists of good looking people, not many know that Jared has pitched in for many social causes, joining hands with Amnesty International, Habitat for Humanity and the Los Angles Gay and Lesbian Centre. Recently, Jared released a pictorial book of his photos to aid earthquake shattered Haiti.

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Shannon Leto Shannon Christopher Leto known from much of us as «Shanimal» was born on March 9th, 1970 in Bossier City, Louisiana. He is an American drummer and an occasional actor. He is the older brother of musician and actor Jared Leto; both are part of the band 30 Seconds to Mars. After spending a few years there, his parents divorced. His mother Constance remarried with Carl Leto which imigrated from Italia. He adopted both Shan and his brother giving them his last name. The couple won’t last but the brothers will keep this name. Living in a family which was community of artists, like hippies, music was part of their lives to both him and his brother. Being omnipresent when growing up it was only natural for them to play instruments at early age. Constance Leto travelled a lot all around the United States with her two children. They moved in and out many cities of many states (in Colorado, in Wyoming, in Virginia, even in Haïti). But moving as much as they did, music was always there. They didn’t have television, only art, painting and music to evade and dream. In a way that was how begun the band begun, it was a giant art project. Shannon played for the first time guitare in Jared’s bedroom. But at the age of 8, he got more interested in his mother’s saucepans which he knocked with wooden spoons. He wasn’t just good at it, he was a prodigy according to Jared’s words. He really had fun with it and it was a way to express himself. He is an autodidact, the way school teached people things they can easily and faster find out reading on their own didn’t suit him. Thus he left school when he was 16. He played in a jazz band without knowing how to read a drums partition. Listening to the songs and then putting his own style in it. He played with them a year and the second tour they asked to audition, he was sure he would pass. He went confident, he had to play «Owner of a lonely heart» by Yes. He played by heart, after that the professor asked him to read the partition which he couldn’t. He was nevercalled. After that he developped his passion for the photography. Compting on the Californian sun to launch his photograph career he joined Jared at Los Angeles. They shared a room with drums and a few Marshall amp. He realised Jared’s first book and all the pictures of their band’s first album. His drums are decorated with Rocken Wraps Skin artwork that features photos of over 400 people of The Echelon. His favorite photograph is Richard Avedon.

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Tomislav Milicevic, also known as Tomo Milicevic and «Crazy Mofo» was born on September 3rd 1979 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He spent two years in culinary school, and is a certified executive and pastry chef, he is even certified in baking and decoratinwg cakes. He likes cooking Japanese food and he makes weeding cakes. He started to play violin with his uncle when he was 3 years old. At that time he didn’t like guitar, this instrument being too easy to his taste. He continued until the age of 19. During adolescence he discovered his passion to rock and music. Heavy metal made him want to play guitar. He told his dad about it, thus him and his father made one together. It was used on the second CD titled «A Beautiful Lie» (2005) in the songs Savior and A modern myth. He said in an interview that after recording, he called his father to tell him that he had used the guitar. He is left handed but plays guitar with his right hand. He said the very first concert he attended was Nirvana but he has since said in interviews that is «truthfully not true... I think it was Paula Abdul and Living Colour». He played in a band called Morphic. After graduating from culinary school as an executive and pastry chef, Tomo had decided to sell his instrument, about to do it on Ebay. But then, he saw an advertisement to audition for 30 Seconds to Mars. Being a fan of the band he decided to audition. He is chosen among 200 guitarists not just for his skills but because he is kind and personable. Five days later, on February 3, 2003, he played with Jared Leto, Shannon Leto and Matt Wachter on The Late Show with Craig Kilborn. His music influences include: Pantera, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Metallica (first album), The Who, Alice in Chains, Slayer and Nirvana.

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From the left to the right: Tomo Milicevic, Jared Leto, Shannon Leto

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Album 1: 30 Second To Mars

30 Seconds to Mars is the debut studio album by the American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, released on August 27, 2002. The album was recorded in Los Angeles during 2001 and early 2002. On May 23, 2001, 30 Seconds to Mars announced that they are working with Bob Ezrin on the debut album, tentatively titled Welcome to the Universe, and they wrote over fifty songs before paring it down to only ten. 30 Seconds to Mars retreated to the isolation of Wyoming to record the album. The band and Ezrin chose an empty warehouse lot on 15,000

acres. Brian Virtue joined to work with the band and Ezrin later. Leto described the 30 Seconds to Mars experience of working with Ezrin and Virtue: «Bob Ezrin is one of the world’s greatest producers. He was at the top of our list from the very beginning, literally. We felt he had the ability to help us bring the size and scope of what we wanted to this album, and he did. Brian Virtue is an amazing new producer and was with us every step of the way and was a key element in helping us define our sound».

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Studio musicians Renn Hawkey, Elijah Blue Allman, Maynard James Keenan, Danny Lohner, and producer Bob Ezrin also contributed performances on select tracks. Some of the songs had different names before the album was finalized and demo versions were also slightly different. «Fallen» was previously called «Jupiter», «Oblivion» was called «The Reckoning» and «Year Zero» was called «Hero». Demo versions of «Fallen,» «Buddha for Mary» and «93 Million Miles» floating around. The band has also recorded a few other tracks as «Valhalla»

and «Occam’s Razor», that were released on an early 1999 demo, and «Phase 1: Fortification», that was released on a promotional single for «Capricorn» in the United Kingdom. «Revolution» was not included in the track listing because its lyrics could be misinterpreted; the band chose not to include the song in light of the September 11, 2001 attacks. «Anarchy in Tokyo» was included as a bonus track on the Japanese release of the album. The lyrics of the hidden track, «The Struggle,» were taken from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

Album 2: A Beautiful Lie

A Beautiful Lie is the second album by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. It was released on August 30, 2005 through Virgin Records and was produced by Josh Abraham. The album produced four singles, «Attack», «The Kill», «From Yesterday», and «A Beautiful Lie»; of which three of those four singles managed to chart within the top 30 on the U. S. Modern Rock chart, with «The Kill» and «From Yesterday» entering the top three. A Beautiful Lie differs notably from the band’s self-titled debut album,

both musically and lyrically. Whereas the eponymous concept album’s lyrics focus on human struggle and astronomical themes, A Beautiful Lie’s lyrics are «personal and less cerebral». A Beautiful Lie was recorded on four different continents in five different countries over a three-year period to accommodate lead singer Jared Leto’s acting career. The album’s title track, as well as three other songs, were composed in Cape Town, South Africa, where Leto was later met by his bandmates to work on the

tracks. It was during this time that Leto conceived the album’s title. Prior to this, the album was tentatively to be released under the title The Battle of One. It was leaked onto peer-to-peer file sharing networks almost five months before its scheduled release; the version of the album that leaked was unmastered. Because of this, the band was forced to set back the album’s release date. To promote A Beautiful Lie, 30 Seconds to Mars included the songs «The Battle of One» and «Hunter» (originally performed by Björk) as bonus

tracks. «Golden passes» were also included with three of the special versions of the album that entitled the buyer free entrance and backstage access to any 30 Seconds to Mars show for the rest of their formation. A Beautiful Lie sold 21,000 copies in its first week of release in the U. S. and has gone on to sell more than 1,2 million copies in the US alone. All songs written and composed by Jared Leto, except «Savior», «From Yesterday» and «The Battle of One» by Thirty Seconds to Mars.

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Jared Leto responded to some of the claims in the suit on the band’s website and was coerced into dismissing rumors that the group had disbanded. He said the claims were «ridiculously overblown» and «totally unrealistic», before stating «under California law». 30 Seconds to Mars had been contracted for nine years, so the band decided to exercise their «legal right to terminate our old, out-of-date contract, which according to the law is null and

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void». After nearly a year of the lawsuit battle, the band announced on April 29, 2009, that the case had been settled. The suit was resolved following a defence based on a contract case involving actress Olivia de Havilland decades before. Leto explained, «The California Appeals Court ruled that no service contract in California is valid after seven years, and it became known as the De Havilland Law after she used it to get out of her contract with Warner Bros.»

30 Seconds to Mars then decided to re-sign with EMI (the parent label of Virgin). Leto said the band had «resolved our differences with EMI» and the decision had been made because of «the willingness and enthusiasm by EMI to address our major concerns and issues, (and) the

opportunity to return to work with a team so committed and passionate about Thirty Seconds to Mars». He said it was «the most challenging business obstacle that we’ve ever gone through as a band». Upon completion of the record, Leto spoke of the troubles the band

This Is War is the third studio album by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, released through Virgin Records and EMI on December 8, 2009. Upon its release, it peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 200. 30 Seconds to Mars were sued for breach-of-contract by their record label, Virgin Records, in mid-2008. The label sought $30 million in damages, claiming that the band had failed to produce three of the five records they were obligated to deliver under their 1999 contract with the now-defunct Immortal Records. In 2004, Virgin took over the contract.

faced while working on This Is War; «We spent two years of our lives working on that record, and it was us against the world... There were times that it was overwhelming. Everything that was going on was brutal... It was a case of survival, to tell the truth».

Album 3: This Is War

Leto began writing for the album in December 2011, and by the time the band started the recording sessions for Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams in April 2012, he had amassed a total of 50 songs. On April 23, 2012, Rolling Stone released an article revealing

that 30 Seconds to Mars was currently in the studio recording a fourth LP. According to the article, the band previewed some of the new material in their April 27 VyRT stream, including a song called «Witness». It also stated that they were interested in working

with other artists for the album. The band’s official Twitter account confirmed this news. On April 25, 2012 MTV Buzzworthy confirmed that they are working with famed record Producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, Peter Gabriel, The Killers).

Album 4: Love Lust Faith + Dreams

In 2009, 30 Seconds to Mars released their third studio album This Is War. The album saw a new direction taken by the band, employing darker lyrical themes, a louder sound and «much more electronic and experimental, with lots of vintage synths». This Is War has since sold over four million albums and one million singles solicited from the album worldwide, making the album the band’s most commercially successful so far. The tour that followed,

the Into the Wild Tour, Hurricane Tour and Closer to the Edge Tour, spanned two years and broke the Guinness World Record for the «Longest Concert Tour by a Rock Band», playing a total of 309 shows. To follow up This Is War, the band began to work on their fourth studio album immediately after the conclusion of the Closer to the Edge Tour. Frontman Jared Leto wanted «an album that has ebb and flow and content and structure», a sharp contrast to the band’s previous work.

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Something what you feel

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while listening to them

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The second symbol is rotating in the opposite direction, almost as if it is counting down which symbolizes seconds.

The first symbol represents an interleaved ÂŤ3Âť and you can see a 0 inside => 30

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The last symbol represents Mars once again, with its two moons Phobos and Deimos.

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2.If this triangle is a REPRESENTATION a pyramid (at

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the STRUCTURE ITSELF OR BY BOTH. so here are OTHER POSSIBLE theories FUNS HAVE COME UP WITH: 1. The PyTHAGORAS SYMBOL (PYTHAGORAS IS also thE NAME OF ONE OF JARED’S guitars) FOR IS CALLED the Triad and is REPRESENTED by an ISOSCELES/EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE.

the Triad CAN BE ANALYZED BY WHAT IT is named, by

sides are EQUAL) WITH A LINE SEGMENTING it. A triangle IS ALSO REPRESANTIVE OF A pyramid. So

said «The TRIANGLE, WHICH is the BASE STRUCTURE OF THE TRIAD, IS AN equilateral triangle (MEANING ALL angles and

The triangle is called A Triad.The most popular theory is that it representS THe band’s 3 MEMBERS - ‘triad’ can mean “group of THREE”. AS FAR AS we know, the band has nOT MADE A STATEMENT (as with all THEIR SYMBolism/iconography) disclosing THE MEANINg behind the symbol. No band MEMBER HAS COME out &

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pyramid can mean: a belief in something;

represents THE NUMBER 3 (a very strong number in the study of NUMEROLOGY), has many meanings all to itself, as well as being a prominent part of the BAND. The #3 IS THE number said to represent life, because it IS THE ONLY number w/ a BEGINNING, a middle & an end. 5. It could also BE THAT this symbol and NAME WERE USED because it MEANS ALL of these things and more.

having your feet on the ground & your HEAD IN THE SKY/ power, longevity, & strength. 3. A Triad was a name associated with many UNDERGROUND societies - so THIS COULD MEAN the bands references to ‘Yes this is a cult’ because MARS FANS ARE kind of like an underground MOVEMENT. 4. A triangle, which

could mean the draws us closer TO THE BAND & their music)

a connection to SOMETHING spiritual OR godly (many cultures BELIEVED building a pyramid was like stairs to the gods, it got them closer to heaven (so this PYRAMID/Triad

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the end of the ‘THIS IS WAR’ video, the tanks, weapons, etc. form a pyramid to the SYMBOL of the triangle/TRIAD as the video blacks out), this can influence THE MEANING of the Triad.

«City of Angels» was written by Jared Leto and produced with previous collaborator Steve Lillywhite. It was recorded at The International Centre for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences of Sound in Los Angeles, California. Leto described «City of Angels» as the most personal song that Thirty Seconds

to Mars had ever written; he said «it’s the story of my brother and I going to Los Angeles to make our dreams come true. It’s a love letter to that beautiful and bizarre land». Leto explained that the song could refer to any place where a person go to fulfill his own dreams. He stated, «That was a

The music video for «City of Angels» premiered on October 12, 2013 during the Thirty Seconds to Mars concert at the Hollywood Bowl. It was directed by Jared Leto under the alias Bartholomew Cubbins.

The short film was shot over two days on August 18 and 19th, 2013, in Los Angeles, California, and features multiple monoliths and murals, including a Michael Jackson impersonator and homeless people, hired by Leto himself for the video.

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very personal song, obviously, about a specific place: Los Angeles. But it could be... well, when I was a younger kid, it was New York City. That was the place where I went to make my dreams come true, at that time to be a painter, an artist. I was in art school and New York was the place where you went

to makes those things come alive. And as I got older, I started studying film and I came out to Los Angeles. But it could be Paris, it could be Shanghai, it could be San Francisco, Palo Alto, anywhere. A place where you go to realize yourself and your dreamsÂť.

The very next day after the videoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release, #CityOfAngelsOnYoutubeNow became a top trending topic on Twitter. Reception to the short film has been very high. The music video was released on YouTube on October 29, 2013.

Celebrities include Kanye West, Juliette Lewis, Lindsay Lohan, Olivia Wilde, Steve Nash, Ashley Olsen, Lily Collins, James Franco, Selena Gomez, Alan Cumming, Shaun White and Corey Feldman.

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