Track Listing

1. Capricorn (A Brand New Name)
2. Edge Of The Earth
3. Fallen
4. Oblivion
5. Buddha For Mary
6. Echelon
7. Welcome To The Universe
8. The Mission
9. End Of The Beginning
10. 93 Million Miles
11. Year Zero

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9265 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

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Customer Reviews

They Found Water On Mars!
I was just watching a documentary film on Babelgum called "Alone Across Australia". A good film inwhich John Muir the Adventureur travels across the Australian continent by foot. His biggest problem was finding water. And I got to thinking about this cd again, 30 Seconds to Mars, and how the Phoenix Lander has found water on Mars. This album is every bit as good as all that and more, and can be used in any order or role you like to hear your music in.

love it Love It LOVE IT!!!!!!!
Oblivion is seriously one of the best songs ever created (crank the volume to 50 and you'll know what I mean)! Except for Buddha For Mary, I love every song on this album (but only because I don't like that song's lyrics very much). Definitely a must buy!!

Astonishingly good, and very accessible
I admit it - I've been listening to this album almost non-stop for the past five days. It is honestly one of the most engaging pop/alternative albums I've heard in a long time.

You won't find standout players here who strut their stuff as much as a band that works together and works well. No solos, no crazy breakouts, but a cohesive melodic and harmonic structure that shows a great deal of prowess. The tempo changes and progressive song structuring is something I'd expect from much more experienced bands, and in particular the multiple bridges in songs that flow seamlessly from section to section are very well-done. You will not get bored listening to a repetitive under-rhythm here.

The songs vary in tempo and feel in such a way that the entire album just works. "Oblivion" and "The Mission" are the catchiest and so high-energy they're almost danceable. "Capricorn", "Edge of the Earth" and "Echelon" offer impressive displays of tempo changes and ethereal guitar work. "Buddha for Mary" is just bizarre, but somehow I like it. "Fallen", "Welcome to the Universe" and "93 Million Miles" are on the darker side, but still well-composed.

The part of myself that has followed Sevendust since their roaring eponymous debut screams that I'm just a poser for listening to pretty-boy Jared Leto's screams, groans and layered crescendos. The rest of me is too busy dancing to half the tracks to care.

True headbangers will despise 30STM as too poppy, too out there, too synth. Pop fans will wonder what the deuce Jared is singing about - "what's with the fascination with the echelon" and "into the wild...I'm with the mission over the hill, come here with me". In both of these, I think the band succeeds in conveying its own message, its own feeling, its own conceptualization, and leaves it open to the listener to discover. The lyrics take the listener far down the ladder into meteoric metaphors of primal territory, and are as atmospheric as most sci-fi epochs.

This one isn't for the headbangers or the divas. It's for us geeks, and I'm proud to accept.