– 30 Seconds To Mars – Live at 3FM (VPRO, The Netherlands) – 2010 –
Over to The Netherlands this morning for a live session by 30 Seconds To Mars, from the 3FM program That’s Live! from 2010.
A band with a bunch of firsts – including the Guinness Book Of Records for Longest Concert Tour By A Rock Band, playing over 309 shows in two years, between 2009 and 2011. They also had the distinction of being the first Rock Band with a single in Outer Space, with the worldwide debut of Up In The Air being aired aboard The International Space Station in March of this year.
A band also hard to pin-down as to genres, 30 Seconds To Mars runs the gamut from Spacerock to Nu Metal, post-Grunge, Alternative Metal, neo-prog and a host of others.
But all those things point up to the fact they are a popular group and well regarded by audiences and critics alike.
The style of 30 Seconds From Mars first studio album, released in 2002 combined progressive metal and space rock with influences and elements from electronica, utilizing programming and synthesizers Ryan Rayhill from Blender described the album as a “high-minded space opera of epic scope befitting prog-rock prototypes Rush,” and wrote that Thirty Seconds to Mars “emerged with an eponymous debut that sounds like Tool on The Dark Side of the Moon,” referring to the 1973 album by Pink Floyd.
Their third release, This Is War was described as “an extremely progressive rock sound with killer choruses,” drawing inspirations from experimental Pink Floyd to melodic M83. Chris Harris from Rolling Stone considered it “an ambitious collection of experimental rock” shaped by the band’s personal struggles and legal battle with their record label. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic acknowledged the band’s progression, referring to the overall style of the record as a mixture of synth rock, heavy metal, and progressive rock.
In Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams the band experimented with different instruments and drew influences from a wider and more varied range of styles. The album mixes experimental instrumentation with elements both symphonic and electronic, and the music introduces a minimalist approach full of ethereal sonics. The record carries the concept album format of This Is War and expands the spectrum to revolve around the themes after which it is named.
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