Band’s new LP is massive and shiny, but also cold and empty, in Bigger Than the Sound. By James Montgomery 30 Seconds to Mars Photo: EMI Music Here is the best way I can describe 30 Seconds To Mars’ This Is War, an album born out of rather intense struggles and big ideas , one loaded with icy synths and screaming falcons, epic chorales and windswept sonic expanses (and the occasional Tibetan Monk): Listening to it is like being inside a gigantic silver weather balloon, one ascending into the upper reaches of the stratosphere. It is massive and shiny and beautiful, but also cold and empty
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