30 Seconds to Mars

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Customer reviews

review by: everythings_ruined date: 2008-01-07 rating:
Great record
Notice how the bad reviews for this album came after the release of their second album "Beautiful Lie" and they put "The Kill" on Scuzz and now all the trendy boys like them cause "oooh the singer wears make-up and sings about songs that relate to my pain" and the girls like them cause "oooh he's hot" I mean the fact that one reviewer described the band as "part emo, part goth" just goes to show how lame their fanbase has become.

My advice would be to buy this album and pretend that they fell into a black hole afterwards, because Beautiful Lie sucked and they should be ashamed of themselves for selling out so bad.

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review by: Immortal Paradox date: 2007-08-24 rating:
The very first album
Personally, I think this album is totally different and is hard to compare with A Beautiful Lie which is the second album because they are both different in the style of music. This just goes to show how talented the band, 30 Seconds To Mars is in general. Of course this album is quite heavy and if you don't really like heavy stuff, go and listen to A Beautiful Lie first. It may make you change your mind about this album. If you still don't like heavy music, just try it anyway. You may like it. It is a five star album!

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review by: date: 2007-06-10 rating:
meh... bland and generic
I've heard this album a few times the whole way through and quite frankly it bored me to tears, the guitars are to toned down and singers vocals are a bit generic.
the lyrics seem uninspired but do blend with the music, its not that this is a bad album, in fact it goes by quite unnoticeable which is the whole problem, 30STM don't distinguish themselves from any other of the modern rock bands and seem just to be happy to sit somewhere safe and in between.

best track 'Echelon' but still not brilliant

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review by: date: 2007-05-04 rating:
Good, but not great
An excellent debut album from this refreshingly original band. They're in a genre of their own-part goth, part emo, with stunning lyrics and composition, if you're into this sort of music you will love this album.

Personally it's not entirely to my taste, and I prefer the slightly more conventional structure of the songs on their second album (A Beautiful Lie).


review by: mccanns23 date: 2006-05-31 rating:
enjoyable hard rock with uplifting undertones
this is a band set up by hollywood actor jared leto and his brother,jared doesnt advertise the band through his fame,he wants the band to stand on their musical merit and thats a good sign,fortunately 30 seconds to mars are a band that deliver good hard rocking songs,with a spacey theme throughout,clearly there are so called prog moments here,and the band are influenced to some extent by pink floyds seminal dark side of the moon album ,but 30 seconds to mars are indeed their own band and this is a fine debut.
the album opens with capricorn which builds into a crescendo of buzzing guitars and cracking drumming,jared has a good voice just in case you were wondering,edge of the earth is a strong follow up and buddha for mary is possibly the finest song on here with a very strong chorus and anthemic feel to it.welcome to the universe is another stormer,all in all its a great album,not a metal album as such but plenty of moments to have you stamping your feet and singing along.

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