Line #25 Music/ThisIsWar


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"No, I'm not saying I'm sorry; one day maybe we'll meet again..."'']]
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4	'''''This is War''''' is a ConceptAlbum by American rock band Music/{{Thirty Seconds To Mars}}.
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6	After a lawsuit for not living up to their record contract, 30 Seconds to Mars had to create a new album entirely unauthorized. It was them against the world, and marketing was difficult. This album proved to be the most difficult challenge the band ever faced. The story behind this album can be seen in the documentary film ''Artifact''.
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8	What came was a ProgressiveRock opus filled with crowd anthem after crowd anthem and general positive reception all around. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin If it was indeed war, the band triumphed]].
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10	The eponymous TitleTrack was featured during the ending credits of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', released even before the album itself.
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12	!!Tracklist:
13	# "Escape"
14	# "Night of the Hunter"
15	# "Kings and Queens"
16	# "This is War"
17	# "100 Suns"
18	# "Hurricane"
19	# "Closer to the Edge"
20	# "A Call to Arms (Vox Populi)
21	# "Search and Destroy"
22	# "Alibi"
23	# "Stranger in a Strange Land"
24	# "L490"
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26	!!Personnel:
27	* Creator/JaredLeto: vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, keyboards, synthesizers
28	* Shannon Leto: drums, percussion, guitar
29	* Tomo Miličević: lead guitar, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, violin, programming, percussion
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32	!!''Troper in a Strange Land''
33	* AlternateAlbumCover: The album features 2000 different covers which were randomly distributed to stores. The main cover depicts a vertically-mirrored headshot of a snarling tiger while the other covers depict headshots of fans.
34	* BadassBoast: ''We were the KINGS and QUEENS of promise!''
35	* BigNo: Several are shouted during "Closer to the Edge"
36	* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Night of the Hunter" and "Closer to the Edge" have their moments.
37	* CrowdSong: "Closer to the Edge", "A Call to Arms" and "This is War"
38	* ConceptAlbum: Most of it seems to be anti-war, anti-fascist, and general themes of independence and perseverance in the face of hardship.
39	* DarkerAndEdgier: To most of Mars' works prior. A few songs are upbeat, but many are murky and dark.
40	** "Stranger in a Strange Land" is this to the entire album, with a moody synth, a PrecisionFStrike (the only one on an otherwise squeaky clean album), and graphic mentions of death and apocalypse.
41	* EpicRocking: "Hurricane" and "Stranger in a Strange Land" clock in at six minutes apiece.
42	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Escape" to "Night of the Hunter". Not ''quite'' SiameseTwinSongs, but they do go together better than most other songs on the album.
43	* GenreMashup: neo-prog-emo-techno-metal-electronic. There are many styles within single songs.
44	* GratuitousFrench: Beginning of "Night of the Hunter"
45	* IncrediblyLongNote: Near the end of "Kings and Queens", Leto turns the word "queens" into an epic ''10-second'' yell at the top of his lungs, and it is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome absolutely bone-chilling]].
46	* OminousLatinChanting: "L490"
47	* OneWordTitle: "Escape", "Hurricane", and "Alibi"
48	* PrecisionFStrike: "Stranger in a Strange Land"
49	* ProgressiveRock: Many of these songs are long and loud. Allmusic even called this album Neo-Prog.
50	* ProtestSong: "This is War" and "Hurricane" address war.
51	* RecordProducer: Mostly self-produced with help from Flood. As chronicled in the documentary.
52	* ShoutOut: "Stranger In A Strange Land" is a reference to ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein.
53	* SpecialGuest: Music/KanyeWest was originally going to sing on "Hurricane", but the recording couldn't be used due to legal issues surrounding the rights of each record company.
54	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "100 Suns", an acoustic ballad among heavy protest anthems.
55	* TakeThat: The entire album is one at the record industry as a whole.
56	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Touched upon in "Alibi" and, as noted above, "Stranger in a Strange Land", the former being a lot more hopeful about the situation than the latter.
57	* TitleDrop: Besides the obvious title track, also turns up in "Escape".
58	* TitleTrack: "This Is War".
59	* WarIsGlorious or WarIsHell: Most of the songs could go either way. "This is War" seems to be more the former, but upon closer lyrical inspection, "Hurricane" is definitely the latter.

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