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30 Seconds to Mars are not exactly what you'd call a subtle rock band. Their This Is War album (due December 8) features songs written in Berlin and recorded in Hawaii (with Kanye West), guest vocals from fans recorded at so-called "summits" around the globe, and appearances by Tibetan monks and Iranian Twitterers, to name just a few.

So, it's not surprising to learn that the video for War's first single, "Kings and Queens," has become a gigantic event too. In fact, 30STM were no longer even referring to it as a video. It's a short film now.

"Our rule as a band is, when we do videos — which, I don't often think of them as videos, more as short films — let's make sure the experience is amazing," frontman Jared Leto explained. "We've been to China in the past. We've been to the Arctic, so really, to do this video, in one way, was much simpler ... but it's also been more of a challenge. It's still equally huge in its own way."

No, "Kings and Queens" wasn't shot in China (like their "From Yesterday" clip was) or on the polar ice caps (like "A Beautiful Lie"), but it's no less of an epic undertaking. They have been filming over the course of several nights in and around some of Los Angeles' most iconic landmarks, recruiting scores of extras and all manner of surrealist street performers. On Monday night, for example, 30STM had taken over the famed Santa Monica Pier and, along with an army of fixed-gear bikers, were filming a segment called "The Ride," which is just a portion of the "Kings and Queens" short film, a spokesperson for the band explained later.

We know, we're confused too. Not to mention a tad bit overwhelmed. After all, music videos aren't usually shot on this kind of scope and scale anymore. But 30 Seconds to Mars aren't in the business of making music videos these days.

"We're doing all-night shoots. That was my big, dumb idea, to shoot at night," Leto said. "But I think this city is a beautiful place at night, and we have these empty streets, and it's kind of a haunting, forgotten landscape ... very serene. It's about reclaiming public spaces.

"It's been an incredible adventure, but it's also been really difficult, because there are so many people, and we're shutting down streets of Los Angeles," he continued. "Downtown, bridges, some tunnels, Hollywood Boulevard, Santa Monica Pier, we'll be up on Mulholland [Drive], overlooking the city. But the idea, the night rides, I just had some friends that were doing Critical Mass and Crank Mob and People's Ride in L.A. And it's that sort of serendipitous thing, where people started talking to me about it in my life, and then my friend got a fixed gear, and then another friend of mine got a fixed gear. I thought the world was really interesting, and I thought it would be a really beautiful backdrop for the video."

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30 Seconds To Mars have already landed Kanye West and the Killers' Brandon Flowers, shouting fans, Iranian Twitterers and Tibetan monks for their upcoming album, but they're still missing one key ingredient: a title.

Sure, for months, there have been reports that the album would be called This Is War — a reference, in part, to the lengthy (though now settled) legal battle they waged with their former label — but, as it turns out, that's still very much up in the air.

"[The title] hasn't been decided upon 100 percent yet, but I think when the record is done I'm going to sit down and either commit a thousand percent to This Is War, or move on," 30 STM frontman Jared Leto told MTV News last week. "I think it's appropriate in a lot of different ways; [it was] really reflective of this period of time we've been working on the record, in creative terms and personal terms as well."

The time to settle on a title might be coming soon: Leto said the band is "at the very, very very end" of the recording process, and the album will be in stores later this year. And in the rush to finish the record (and an accompanying documentary film), his Los Angeles home — or, as he calls it, "the lab" — has been transformed into a buzzing hive of activity, both musical and visual.

"There is always someone working in the lab," Leto said. "We're also shooting a film, so the film crew and the editors are at the house. I wake up and there are people that are working, and when I go to bed there are people who are working. And it's a factory and it's inspiring to be around all that energy. I love it."

And though there's still no title for the album, Leto said he and his bandmates have already picked the first single. Of course, he won't reveal just what the song is called, but, in keeping with 30 STM tradition, it's shaping up to be a very big affair.

"We're going to be making some announcements very, very soon, and obviously [there's going to be] a short film for the first single, and a tour to follow," he said. "I can't confirm [what the single is called], but I do know what the song is ... I had an idea that this could be a really special song when we first heard it. It's going to be massive."

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When it comes to 30 Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto really only knows one way of operating: global.

He's written songs in Berlin, then recorded them in Hawaii (with Kanye West), held RSVP-only "summits" (basically fan-only recording sessions) in Australia, Italy, France and Japan (to name just a few), drew influence from German electronic act Tangerine Dream and had an entire project helmed by British producer Flood.

So it should come as no surprise that, as the sessions for 30 Seconds to Mars' new album enter the home stretch, he's still expanding borders — with a so-called "digital summit" and some very unorthodox guest stars.

"I actually ended up getting a Twitter from someone in Iran, saying that they wanted to be a part of our summits but couldn't make it to any of the worldwide summits," Leto told MTV News Thursday. "So the idea to do the digital summit was born out of that. ... We wanted to further the connection between the band and the audience, to use the collective conscious as an instrument on the record."

So 30STM put a request out to their fans: submit content through TwitVid.com, and it could end up on the new album. And just like that, the floodgates opened.

"People are sitting in front of their computers, either by themselves or with their friends and family, all around the world, and they're recording sounds and singing and answering interview questions. ... It's as simple as clapping or stomping, to singing a chorus on a song," Leto explained. "We're experimenting with what you can do with a group. It's wonderful to see that people are so excited for this. Eventually, we're going to have to call it off, since we've gotten so many submissions. It's going to take awhile to go through all of them."

And while they cull through the video submissions, Leto and company are still putting the finishing touches on the new album (which Leto won't totally confirm is going to be called This Is War, despite several reports). The goal, Leto said, is to have the album in stores this year.

"We are literally in the death throes or about to give birth to this record," he said. "We're at the very, very, very end, wrapping things up, and it looks like the album will be coming out sooner rather than later."

And while fans already know that Kanye and Killers frontman Brandon Flowers make a cameo on a track called "Hurricane," there are some new guests that Leto personally invited to appear on the album: a group of Tibetan monks.

"There's a disparate nature to a lot of the songs. We explored a lot, and I think people are gonna be really surprised with this album," he said. "One really exciting thing we did a couple of weeks ago, we had been working on recording with some Tibetan monks for about a year, and we finally got them in the studio and recorded their voices chanting. We did some chanting with them. ... They were in [my] house, chanting and recording."

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They've called it "one of the best things we've done as a band," but aside from that, 30 Seconds to Mars have remained tight-lipped about "The Summit," the fans-only gathering/recording session they held last month at Hollywood's Avalon club.

We know they used the audience as a sort of "musical instrument," recording their vocals — among other things — for use on their new album. But aside from that ... not much. The whole experiment is made even more compelling by the fact that — aside from a few snippets of video shot by fans and the band itself — no one has seen (or heard) anything that went on inside the Avalon.

Until now, that is. Earlier in the week, the band sent MTV News footage of the event, and after a few days of back-and-forth, we're finally able to show it to you.

The video shows Jared Leto and his bandmates leading the audience through a variety of audio experiments, including synchronized stomping, shouted "Heys!" and "Ooh-Ooh-Oohs!" and — most impressively — a rising, whisper-quiet-to-ear-splittingly-loud hum. We also see Leto's brother Shannon directing a drum exercise, with fans arranged around him in a circle banging on cardboard boxes (surely this is the "percussive expression" Jared told MTV News about a few weeks back).

It's not known just how much of the recordings will actually end up on the 30STM album — which will be hitting shelves in September on Virgin Records. It's also not clear if any of the footage the band shot during the Summit will end up on the long-gestating film Leto is editing in his L.A. home.

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Earlier this month, Kanye West got people talking (and not about the whole "gay fish" thing) when he posted a photo of himself, Killers singer Brandon Flowers and 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto on his blog and wrote that the trio were working on a "dope-ass song" for 30STM's new album.

Aside from saying that he worked the MPC sampler while Flowers played some keyboard, West revealed very little else about the song (he did, however, add that the "sh-- was dope"). Leto wrote a post on 30STM's site a few days later — in which he revealed that the song was called "Hurricane" — but there's been no other updates on the collaboration.

Until now. On Monday, when MTV News went to Leto's Los Angeles home, we asked him about working with Kanye on the track, and here's what he had to say:

"I had actually brought up [the idea of working with West] some time ago, but it's pretty unbelievable that it actually happened," Leto said. "He came by here, he was here in the studio, and we did some initial kind of listening, and he did some singing, and we knew we needed to kind of follow up and finish things, so I went over to Hawaii [with] an engineer and a small crew, and we had a great time."

Leto said that "Hurricane" features West's voice, au naturel, a decision he made even though the rapper/producer has trafficked almost exclusively in Auto-Tune as of late (like last year's 808s & Heartbreak). And surprisingly, the notoriously headstrong West listened.

"This is Kanye singing. I happen to think he has a really great voice. I like his voice a lot," Leto said. "My favorite is when he sings, as opposed to rapping, and I told him that as well, that I really liked him as a singer. But the Auto-Tune thing doesn't really bug me."

But there is one similarity between "Hurricane" and West's 808s: the icy sentiment. Seems both come from the same cold, dark place, be it the recesses of West's love-torn heart or, you know, Berlin, where Leto wrote the track.

"I wanted to work with him before 808s, but ... there was something about the direction that he headed in that album that lent itself to the song," Leto said. "I wrote 'Hurricane' in Berlin in the winter in 2007. It was winter, it was getting dark at like 3:30 in the afternoon, and it could go either way. It could be incredibly comforting or incredibly depressing. Thankfully, it was a little bit of both. It was inspiring nonetheless."

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By their own admission, 30 Seconds to Mars have been at "war" with Virgin Records and EMI Music for nearly a year now, locked in a $30 million breach-of-contract lawsuit that has kept them in limbo while they work on the follow-up to their breakthrough 2005 album, A Beautiful Lie. It's been trying, it's been uniting and, as of Wednesday morning (April 29), it's officially a thing of the past.

In an e-mail, 30STM announced they had resolved the suit against EMI — and, in fact, had re-signed with them — in the interest of finding a home for their new album. Frontman Jared Leto wrote that it was time "to make peace, to move ahead, and to begin again. ... We have decided it best for the music, for the fans, and for Thirty Seconds to Mars to accept a resolution with EMI.

"We are now nearly finished with our new record and have found ourselves in a place ready to accept an end to the arduous conflict with our former label," the e-mail continued. "There are many reasons that have contributed to this decision, but overall the willingness and enthusiasm by EMI to address our major concerns and issues, the opportunity to return to work with a team so committed and passionate about Thirty Seconds to Mars, and the company's dedication to changing the status quo of the business of recorded music made this choice possible."

It was an announcement that surprised almost everyone, except for us here at MTV News. See, we actually heard about the settlement Monday, when we were doing an interview with 30STM at Leto's Los Angeles home. We asked Leto about it, and he answered — though only under the conditions that we waited to run our news until he had announced the settlement himself. So, given that he did that this morning, here's what he had to say about his band's new deal:

"There came a time where it was appropriate and important to end the fight. And we are very relieved and very excited to say that we have resolved our differences with EMI and that we have re-signed with EMI and that we'll be putting our new record out, probably, in September," he said. "And that's ... wow, that's the first time I'm saying that. Honestly, it feels pretty intense."

And, so, with the lawsuit behind him, and a tentative release date for the new album circled on the calendar, Leto's battle is finally over. But does he have any regrets about the way things happened?

"It was a long, hard battle," Leto said. "I'm not going to bullsh-- you: It was the most challenging business obstacle that we've ever gone through as a band. And it was very real. A $30 million lawsuit isn't something to be treated lightly, and we always had respect for what was going on. ... We didn't actually know if we would return, and I'm sure EMI didn't know," he said. "But after exploring all of our options, and after taking careful consideration, we decided that the best thing was to reunite and to move forward. ... There were days where it was devastating, it was really brutal, and there were days where you almost forgot about it. But it's behind us now. We feel great about the decision that we've made, were ready to move on, to put our new music out. Finally."

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Here is one thing you probably do not know about Jared Leto: He is a hugger.

I discovered this on Monday, when I spent the afternoon with 30 Seconds to Mars at Leto's rather amazing home in Los Angeles and was wrapped in his gentle embrace no less than a dozen times. In the upstairs sitting room, down by the pool, in the control room of his studio ... Leto was there for me, waiting with outstretched arms. Seriously, it was like visiting my grandma, if my grandma A) had a decidedly postmodern interior-design scheme and B) were friends with Kanye West.

To say that it was possibly the most surreal afternoon of my entire career would be an understatement of epic proportions. And that was before Leto sat me down, stared at me with those steely blue eyes of his, patted my knee and presented me with a gift: a box of steel-cut oatmeal (since I had joked in a blog post that he was killing us with all the cupcakes he had been sending to the MTV newsroom). Oh, and he filmed the exchange for a movie he's working on and made me sign a release form.

And this brings me to the point of this week's column: Not only is Jared Leto a tireless hugger and a thoughtful gift giver, he is also totally, completely crazy ... in the best way possible.

Because for the past year, despite the specter of a $30 million lawsuit hanging over his head (the suit was settled hours after this column was filed), Leto has been clocking 18-hour days in a bare-bones-yet-strangely-futuristic studio that he and his 30 Seconds to Mars bandmates — brother Shannon and guitarist Tomo Miličević — built and financed completely out of pocket, working on the ultra-ambitious, decidedly weird follow-up to 30STM's breakthrough 2005 album, A Beautiful Lie.

They brought in Flood (U2, Nine Inch Nails, Killers) to produce and advise them, even designing the studio to his exact specifications. (At one point, while giving me a tour, Leto stopped and pointed at a refrigerator-size synthesizer: "That's the same one [Flood] used on Depeche Mode's Violator," he beamed. "You have to be a scientist to play it.") They had Kanye sing and play on a song. They held an RSVP-only "audio experiment" designed to cull whispers and murmurs and shouts for backing tracks. And they are making (and editing at Leto's house) a film that will document the album's creation.

Until this week's settlement, this was all without the backing of a label — or a firm distribution plan, aside from Leto's steadfast insistence that people will hear the album "even if I have to go door-to-door selling it." This album, with songs that stretch to eight minutes and have the synthesizer overload of Tangerine Dream, is completely self-financed, totally uninfluenced and untouched by anyone outside of Leto's inner circle (and maybe Brandon Flowers). And it is — by Leto and his bandmates' own admission — vastly different from their last album, to the point where fan alienation is a near certainty.

So, basically, Leto has been making what could either be the most ambitious or disastrous album you might never hear. And now he's swallowed his pride and found a way for you to hear it. And he's doing it because he wants to.

And really, shouldn't we have more rock stars like this? Shouldn't every album be a leap of faith, a test of wills, a risk of considerable magnitude? Isn't that how great art is made? Jared Leto gets a lot of crap, but really, he just might be the most driven, focused and downright fearless rock star I've ever met. And his band, much derided and long ignored, are the same way: Down in their studio, while no one was looking, they've been slaving away with no real end in sight, working on a deeply personal, completely unspoiled piece of art. That is brave. That is commendable.

Of course, keep in mind I am basing all of this off a single afternoon I spent with 30STM at Leto's house. I haven't heard a single note of their new album — just listened to them talk about it, watched them run their fingers through their scraggly beards, rub their bloodshot eyes. I have no idea how the album will turn out ... if it ever turns out at all.

But I do know that I wish there were more people like Jared Leto making music these days. We need more certifiable, insanely driven, hyper-focused people to shoulder the load, to take risks and to make art. This is what we should expect from every band we love, yet almost none of them are brave (or crazy) enough to try it.

Jared Leto is. And I can't wait to see how this whole thing turns out. Disaster or triumph, at least he tried. Hard. And hugged even harder.

Questions? Concerns? BTTS@MTVStaff.com

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LOS ANGELES — You'd think every day is a great one for Jared Leto, but the last two have been pretty ridiculously amazing even by his standards.

On Sunday, he and his 30 Seconds to Mars bandmates hosted "The Summit," an impromptu gathering of fans at Hollywood's Avalon club ... that just so happened to draw roughly 1,000 supporters from all over the U.S. and Europe (a number that's even more impressive considering the band announced details of the meet-up last week).

Then, on Monday, he took to 30STM's MySpace Celebrity page to field questions from nearly 700,000 friends (presumably those who couldn't make it to "The Summit") in a live video chat. And he invited MTV News to his L.A. home to watch it all happen.

While we'll have more on 30STM in the coming days, we figured we'd get to the past 48 hours first.

"[The] MySpace live chat was something of a beautiful disaster," Leto chuckled. "It was, at moments, really fun and incredibly, uh, awkward, but that always makes for something entertaining. There were some facial-hair questions. ... I think it was [gesturing to ultra-hirsute bandmates Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević] Che Guevara and Elvis Costello sitting to my right."

"I get the hint, alright," Miličević laughed, tugging at his beard. "I get it."

As for "The Summit," well, the band couldn't have been happier. Originally dreamed up by Leto as a way to include the band's (exceedingly, insanely) loyal fans in the making of their new album, it turned into something more: a legitimate experiment in recording and crowd-control, with 30STM using the audience as a musical instrument. Leto swore all participants to secrecy, but he decided to spill some of the details to us.

" 'The Summit' ... was an experiment in our recording process, and we were just trying to think of ways that we could deepen the connection between ourselves and our family of fans around the world," Leto explained. "We do that often, and think of ways to break the boundary. And we thought, 'How great would it be to invite the world to come and be a part of the next 30 Seconds to Mars album?'

"There were some things [we tried] that were left-field sound experiments — using the group, the collective, as a musical instrument," he continued. "We did everything from percussive expression to whispering to things that were a little bit more familiar, like inviting the 1,000 people that were there to sing the chorus of a song. And those people who were a part of it all will be a part of the next 30 Seconds to Mars album. ... It was quite simply one of the best things we've done as a band."

And just when will fans be able to hear their handiwork? Well, Leto wouldn't divulge that information, but he did say that there's going to be plenty of room for those percussive expressions on the new record ... because, in a move befitting an album they've been laboring on for a year now, it's a long player.

"The longest song on there is, like, eight minutes. The shortest, probably five. ... I don't think we have one under five, that's for sure," he said. "I think we do a really good job at just chasing the feeling, the core of the song, and allowing the song the ability or right to go where it leads us, where it wants to go. The song dictates that, and we've been working on this collection of songs for 12 months, so we know them pretty well."

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Regular readers of Kanye West's blog are probably aware that the man is obsessed with fancy sneakers, all things sleek and tech-y and posting borderline-creepy paeans to women he'd like to bed (they're probably also aware that, thanks to the makers of "South Park," he can never eat in a Cheesecake Factory again). Oh, and it's not exactly news when he posts a photo of himself in the studio, since he's seemingly always working with someone, somewhere.

But on Tuesday, when West posted a picture of himself with Killers frontman Brandon Flowers and 30 Seconds to Mars main man Jared Leto, it surprised even the most faithful of his fans. This wasn't your everyday Kanye collabo, after all.

"I was working on this dope-ass song with Jared and Brandon stopped by. I played them some of the new Jeezy beats, and before everybody bounced, Brandon hopped on the keyboard and I hopped on the MPC [sampler]" West wrote. "Sh-- was dope. Oh, and yes, those are Swarovski crystals on Brandon's shirt, by Dries Van Noten."

It is a pretty impressive shirt. Anyway, the post raised a rather interesting question: Why was Jared Leto in the studio with Kanye West? Last we checked, 30 Seconds to Mars were working with noted British producer Flood on their new album — the same album currently being held up by a rather contentious (and costly) lawsuit with their former label, Virgin/EMI.

So, we decided to reach out to 30STM's management to try and get to the bottom of it all, and here's what they told us: Kanye and Leto were working on a song for the upcoming 30 Seconds to Mars album, which will be released later this year.

There was no further comment given (and no one seems to know why Flowers was there), but the news of a Kanye/Leto collaboration is certainly interesting ... and it's a glimmer of hope for long-suffering 30STM fans out there, still waiting for the follow-up to the band's breakthrough 2005 effort, A Beautiful Lie.

Not to mention, it's more proof that you learn something new from Kanye West's blog every single day.

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Jared Leto isn't going to let a little thing like a $30 million lawsuit slow him or his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, down. In fact, if anything, it's made them even more prolific.

According to Leto, 30 Seconds to Mars have been hard at work on the yet-to-be-titled follow-up to 2005's A Beautiful Lie, for which they've enlisted the talents of British post-punk producer Flood (Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Rós). Even though there's a $30 million rain cloud looming overhead, Leto said the band's in "good spirits" and that they're "working together as a band better than we ever have before," and are feeling more inspired than they have in years.

"Our only concrete goal is to make something amazing, and something that we're proud of, and something that's fulfilling and challenges us," Leto told MTV News recently. "We really try to just collectively participate in a creative experiment that hopefully ends up being something we're really proud of. But when you're in it, you can't help but be 1,000 percent focused on what's going on in that time. That's why I like making music so much, because it really commands your entire being. It takes all of you. And when you're making it with other people as well, it's a really unique experience. It's really making an actual 'record' of this time in our lives, and it's saying something in creative terms about who and what we are — our thoughts, our fears, our hopes, our dreams."

Leto claims that this new LP is inspired by a number of life experiences he's been through, and that the band has been able to evolve from A Beautiful Lie, making this next record his favorite effort to date.

"We've had this phenomenal experience travelling the world, and as you come into contact with different cultures, different people, you can't help but be influenced by that in some sort of way," he said. "I think this record is about faith, about spiritual matters, and that just happens to be what we're thinking about and talking about in our lives right now. I said when the last album came out that I wanted to destroy the first record, which I think we did. We took a dramatic turn from the first to the second, and I think this new record follows that path. It's exciting to us, and we're really passionate about it."

Of course, the $30 million lawsuit — filed by the band's former label, Virgin Records, back in August — is still pending, and Leto freely spoke about the suit that contends the guys failed to produce three of the five records they were obligated to deliver under their 1999 contract, which the band entered into with the now-defunct Immortal Records.

In 2004, Virgin took over that contract, which the band later "repudiated," claiming that they were "excused from such performance from and after July 4, 2008, pursuant to California Labor Code Sec. 2855 (a)." That law mandates that a contract "may not be enforced against the employee beyond seven years from the commencement of service under it."

"It's our first lawsuit," he joked. "When you have a $30 million lawsuit against you, it's part of your life. Some days you feel invincible, and other days you can be obsessed with it. Some days you can get a little pissed. We've always had a phenomenal relationship with our record company. We have been sued for terminating our record contract, and, really, for exercising our legal right. We've been signed for over nine years now, and under California law, you can't be bound to a contract for more than seven years."

Leto said the band will challenge the filing, because in his opinion, the suit doesn't have legs.

"It's all about fairness," he said. "It's about companies treating artists fairly. It's an age-old debate and, unfortunately, it will probably continue into the distant future. Record companies — and in particular, EMI — want their bands to work for free. They want their bands to work for slave wages. We would do this for free, because we love doing this — but there's a principle there. We feel really confident that this is the right thing to do — to confront this and not shy away, not to be scared, to challenge the status quo. The great news is the music is better than ever. We're making the best album we've ever done."

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