Single · 2009
This Is War
This Is War is a single by 30 Seconds to Mars, released in 2009 on Concord Records, with 12 tracks.
- 12
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- 61 min
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Single · 2009
This Is War is a single by 30 Seconds to Mars, released in 2009 on Concord Records, with 12 tracks.
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12 tracks · 61 min
This Is War is the third studio album by American rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, released through Virgin Records and EMI on December 8, 2009. Upon its release, it peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 200. 30 Seconds to Mars were sued for breach-of-contract by their record label, Virgin Records, in mid-2008. The label sought $30 million in damages, claiming that the band had failed to produce three of the five records they were obligated to deliver under their 1999 contract with the now-defunct Immortal Records. In 2004, Virgin took over the contract. Leto responded to some of the claims in the suit on the band's website and was coerced into dismissing rumors that the group had disbanded. He said the claims were "ridiculously overblown" and "totally unrealistic", before stating "under California law, where we live and signed our deal, one cannot be bound to a contract for more than seven years." 30 Seconds to Mars had been contracted for nine years, so the band decided to exercise their "legal right to terminate our old, out-of-date contract, which according to the law is null and void." After nearly a year of the lawsuit battle, the band announced on April 29, 2009, that the case ha…