Thirty Seconds To Mars joke that they will “finally make a rock album again”

Thirty Seconds To Mars have hinted that they’re going to return to rock on their next album.

Following the more electro-focused sounds of 2023’s It’s The End Of The World But It’s A Beautiful Day – as well as 2018’s America and 2013’s Love, Lust, Faith And Dreams records – the Jared Leto-fronted duo have teased in a new video that they might “finally make a rock album again”.

In a new video featuring Jared on a laptop with his team behind him, they jokingly react to and celebrate “watching the first troll talk shit after we finally make a rock album again”. In the caption, they ask, “Like & share if you want a Rock Album” and Jared himself comments several devil horns emojis.

Whether this material arrives anytime soon, though, remains to be seen. Coming up, 30STM will be playing a bunch of European shows in the summer, including headline dates and festivals such as Madrid’s Mad Cool.

Speaking to Kerrang! in September 2023 about the gaps between the band’s releases and how that impacts the art, Jared said, “We average about four or five years [between albums]. We’ve made six albums in 25 years! Even our first album, when we got signed in ’98, we didn’t put the album out till 2004. Who does that?!

“We do take a long time. And the nice thing is, like, you change as the world change changes, your interests change. So, yeah, it’s a great way to reset everything. And if you’re not changing, I mean, that’s an interesting thing. Some visual artists look the same for their whole career, some change over the decades.”

Anyway, watch this space, and check out the new video below:

Read this next:

• Papa Roach: “Music can move culture, can inspire and shift momentum in society, and can lift people up from a dark place”
• Keep it in the family: 23 bands whose members are related
• Linkin Park: “We were out to prove this was our band and our style… That’s what Meteora became”