| 30 Seconds to Mars | |
|---|---|
 30 Seconds to Mars | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Genre(s) | Emo123 Post-grunge4 Post-hardcore5 Rock64 |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Label(s) | Immortal, Virgin |
| Associated acts | Angels & Airwaves Great Northern The Used |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | |
| Jared Leto Shannon Leto Tomo Miličević | |
| Former members | |
| Matt Wachter Solon Bixler Kevin Drake | |
30 Seconds to Mars is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. The band features actor Jared Leto as vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter.
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History
Formation
Created in 1998 by Jared Leto brother, Shannon, 30 Seconds to Mars began as a small family project. Matt Wachter later joined the band as bassist and keyboard player. After working with a number of guitarists (as the band's first two guitarists, Kevin Drake and Solon Bixler, left the band due to issues primarily related to touring), the three auditioned Tomo Miličević to round out the band's roster.
According to an interview from Virgin Records, the band's name
"actually comes from a thesis that the band found online that was written by a former Harvard professor. And one of the subsections of the thesis was titled 'thirty seconds to mars sic' and he goes on to talk about the exponential growth of technology that relates to humans and saying that we are quite literally thirty seconds to mars. What it means to us is, we thought it best described our music, in short."7
Even though Leto is a major Hollywood actor, he prefers not to use this information to "sell" the band; in fact, Leto hates attention given to himself more than the band so much that he refuses to play shows if they have used his name as a movie star to promote the band.
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