Hey guys this article was in kerrang magazine and i had to put it up! sadly my scanner isn't working so i wrote up the interview but i can't get the picture up. i'm sure someone else will later lol. anyway cant wait for the new album. hopefully it will be out in 'late spring' as jared said!!! ENJOY!
What are the chances of you telling us the title of the new album?
(Jared Leto) "Probably not very good! i do have a working title for the album but I'm not keen to let you know what it is. what happened before was that i had a working title for A Beautiful Lie, which i let become public; people got rather attached to it and then when it got changed they were a bit upset. so i'll keep the working title to myself for now, if you don't mind".
When is the album due?
"i think in some people's minds its long past due. but we really take the approach and really remind each other, often, that it's done when it's done. There are days that we are really keen to get the thing finished so that we can get out on the road once again. But then there are other days when we really get involved with the whole process. Yesterday for example, I spent the whole day listening to one guitar track on one song. I can get a bit...a bit...er...
A bit Axl Rose?
"No, No, No, not at all! I just get very specific and compulsive about the things i'm doing in the studio.
I'm going to ask the question again, only this time i want you to imagine that i'm armed. When is the album due?
"I would be excited to have the record ready to share with people by the late spring, so let's go with that.
Do you have any song titles or other specific details you can share?
"There are a couple of songs that have become important to us. One of those songs is called 'Kings and Queens'; another is called Panacea. But when you start thinking about a record or talking about a record before it's finished, it's a bit like tasting all the individual ingredients of a recipie that you plan on cooking. You won't know how it will taste until it's ready, so what's the point of tasting it before it all comes together?"
You have an audience that are quite possessive of you. Do you feel any responsiblity to them or pressure from them when it comes to making a new album?
"All i think is that there is a part of me that does want this community that has grown up around the idea of 30 seconds to mars to be excited and to be happy with the work that we've done...But i also think that it can be dangerous in an artistic sense to get too caught up in what you believe your audience might want from your music. And anyways, for me, it's always myself that i have the hardest time pleasing, so once i've got the music to the point where it pleases me i can then only hope that it's good enough to please someone else who might later be listening."
Who will be getting a producer's credit on the album's sleevenotes?
"Wow, well this is quite important news for us because, we're all amazed that he agreed to do work for us, but the producer for this album is The Dark Lord himself, Sir Flood. For anyone who doesn't know, he has produced Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, U2, Depeche Mode...so much good stuff. As a producer he makes each performer better; he makes you reach into yourself to find better answers and more creativity. And he does this just by being himself. He's helping us harness the album that we have inside our hearts and bring it out into the real world"
How has the work on the album been affected by you guys being defendants in a $30million (£20 million) lawsuit?
"we're in lawsuit limbo land rigt now, which is weird. It's weird to think that there's a $30million dollar lawsuit (with record label, Virgin) hanging over our heads, like we needed any more pressure now that we're finally making the follow up to A Beautiful Lie. There are some days when you don't think about it all and some days when it weighs heavily on your mind. But although the high rollers in the glass offices really want to nail us to the wall, none of them can stop us releasing a new album. So we just soldier on."
