30 Seconds to Mars
by Thirty Seconds to Mars
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 177 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 153 out of 177
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 177
  3. Negative: 16 out of 177

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  1. carolines
    Feb 27, 2007
    0
    Leto: go back to acting. ASAP.
  2. DaredP
    May 11, 2009
    0
    This band sucks. Jared Leto sucks. That sums it up. They make Nickleback look like Bach by comparison.
  3. JustinL
    Jan 1, 2006
    0
    band sucks so damn bad. Leto just yells and moans about god knows what. I dk how anybody can think a band with so little of talent can be any good. Honestly, this is the worst band i probably have ever heard and seen opening for audioslave and seether. But they suck dont buy this, if you want a good cd buy contraband by Velvet revolver.
  4. ChrisR.
    Oct 6, 2007
    3
    Wow, terrible, angst ridden music. Enjoy!
  5. MichelleK
    Apr 14, 2007
    1
    Terrible. This is what happens when actors think they can do anything. FYI: You can't
  6. Jeremy
    May 13, 2007
    2
    Over-wrought, mind-numbing, pretentious, and infantile. Leto obviously is a misguided lyricist and this album is a shockingly awful prog-emo mess. The follow-up at least opens with three decent (and I use that word loosely) songs. This album simply takes everything wrong with rock music, new and old, and purees it into 53 minutes of hell.
  7. BenS.
    Sep 21, 2007
    1
    I was delighted by the poster that insisted that one had to be intelligent to 'get' this album. What on earth is there to get? The music is dull and derivative while Leto's lyrics are not 'baffling', merely inept. This whole product is a great glaring cliche, from the music to the lyrics to the poor actor turned worse musician.

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Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. AllMusic
    Nov 11, 2015
    90
    30 Seconds to Mars has managed to record an album that breathes life into the empty shell that corporate rock has become, and in reanimating an avenue of musical expression that has for many years been on its deathbed, has quite possibly offered the single best rock experience of 2002.
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  2. Blender
    60
    30STM manage a high-minded space opera of epic scope befitting prog-rock prototypes Rush. [#9, p.142]
  3. Q Magazine
    40
    The album has a polished sheen, but Leto's delivery of his earnest, sci-fi-tinged lyrics gets monotonous over the course of the album. [Dec 2002, p.96]
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