Thirty Seconds To Mars tease fans that they might “finally make a rock album again”

24 February, 2025

Thirty Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto has teased that they might “finally make a rock album again”.

Though forming as a rock band in 1998, Thirty Seconds To Mars have adopted a more electronic sound in recent years, with 2023’s ‘It’s The End Of The World But It’s A Beautiful Day‘, 2018’s ‘America’, and 2013’s ‘Love, Lust, Faith And Dreams’ leaning on pop-inspired sounds.

Now, though, Leto is teasing that a return to their roots may be on the cards. In a new video shared to Instagram, the frontman sits at his laptop with his team behind him, as they stage their joke reaction to “watching the first troll talk sh!t after we finally make a rock album again”.

The video is accompanied by the caption: “Like & share if you want a Rock Album”, to which Leto himself responded with several devil horns emojis. Check it out below.

It’s not clear if any new material is coming soon, but the band will be heading to Europe this summer for a performance at Madrid’s Mad Cool festival.

The appearance will follow their 2024 tour, which was the band’s first in over five years. Leto announced the long-awaited string of shows by climbing up the Empire State Building.

During the tour they played shows in South America, North America, the UK and Europe and surprised fans at the Glasgow show by unintentionally bringing a member of Jedward onto the stage.

Last year, Leto looked back on the band’s previous financial struggles, and explained that there was a point where they were “millions of dollars in debt”.

The dispute came around their breakthrough album, ‘A Beautiful Lie’, which arrived in 2005 and first put the band on the map. Despite selling nearly three million copies of the debut album, a row with their record label left them facing huge debt.

“We sold millions of copies, and then we found out not only were we not going to be paid a single cent, we were millions of dollars in debt,” Leto recalled on Australia’s Kyle and Jackie O Show, looking back at their early days.

“We disputed. They sued us for $30million for breach of contract and then we made a film about it. So anyway, we went through that crazy bit of our lives and it’s nice to be on the other side.”

The film Leto alluded to is the 2012 movie Artifact, which chronicled today’s music industry and followed the $30million breach of contract lawsuit between the band and EMI. The suit was raised against the musicians in 2008, when they failed to deliver a third album from their give-album deal and disputed with the label over royalties.

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