CHANGE IMPORTANT TO 30 SECONDS TO MARS ON UPCOMING ALBUM

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After the sophomore album from 30 Seconds to Mars, “A Beautiful Lie” spawned the hit singles “The Kill” and “From Yesterday” the band has started pre production on their highly anticipated third album. The album, which has no title or release date as of yet will once again see brothers Shannon and Jared Leto and guitarist Tomo Milicevic try to build upon the world wide critical acclaim of their last album.

We caught up with drummer Shannon Leto at the 2008 Guitar Center Drum Off to get an update on where the band is the recording stage.

“We are actually doing pre production. I’ve recorded a bunch of beats, some guitar parts. My brother has probably written twenty or thirty songs already. We’re going to go tour England and part of Europe right now, come back, record about five songs and see what happens.”

We also talked with Shannon about the importance of growing and evolving as songwriters.

“We’re always going to change, always going to grow, always going to evolve so it’s going to sound different from the last album. We always want to change. That’s important to us, so.”

30 Seconds to Mars will be staring their European tour in Newcastle, U.K. Jan 24th with dates extending until Feb 15th in Lisbon. It was recently announced at the end of 2007 that 30 Seconds To Mars won the Fuse Best of 2007 Award, with over 7 million votes. Look for the band to get back into the studio after their European tour to begin the recording process for the next album.