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Thirty Seconds To Mars have unveiled a brand-new worldwide tour live video for their new single, "Do Or Die," the second single from American stadium emo-rockers' recent fourth studio album, "Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams," released in stores last May via Virgin Records and Universal. And just as you've come to expect from the trio, "Do Or Die," which clocks in at a whopping seven minutes, is basically a love letter to a fanbase, complete with testimonials, behind-the-scenes clips and some massive crowd shots with frontman Jared Leto in full messianic mode.
The concept album revolves around four themes after which the album is named. It is recognized by four colors, with the color Red stands for Love, Green for Lust, Yellow for Faith and Blue/Purple for Dreams. Written and produced by Leto, "Do Or Die," is an anthemic rock song with a real message behind. According to Leto, this propulsive rocker is "about standing up and living out your dreams." The track chronicles the band's backstage and onstage antics as they work to break a world record for the number of live shows performed during a single album cycle. This new clip is a love letter to the Echelon, and the explosive exchange of energy that takes place whenever they perform for them.
Shot during the band's 2013 tour in Europe, and directed as usual by Leto's "Bartholomew Cubbins" pseudonym, the seven-minute clip, is mostly a performance video featuring a lot concert footage, backstage footage, fan commentary, and random scenes, including their performance in Soho Square this summer when they performed a surprise busking set and self-shot studio footage and offers fans an insight into the band behind the scenes. It is vibrant and fans from all over the world are showcased in discussing how much Thirty Seconds To Mars means to them.
The emotional clip opens on a young man describing the pain of his father's unexpected death, how he dealt with the loss, how he continues to do so, and the role that music has played throughout the entire grieving process. Throughout cancer scares, divorce, job loss, death, and nearly anything else you could think of, music has helped these individuals persevere and continue to enjoy life. More confessionals are added to the mix, claiming that music is everything from a drug to the reason why they're even alive. Then, the video cuts to high-quality live performance footage, only occasionally swapping in scenes of the band helming a gigantic sailing ship.

Fall Out Boy have officially risen from the ashes, they're ready with a new video for their comeback and new anthem, "The Phoenix," the opening track and a promotional single from their upcoming fifth studio album, "Save Rock and Roll," due out April 15 via Island Records and it's the pop punk band's first album since coming out of a four-year hiatus, a follow-up to 2008's "Folie à Deux." "The Phoenix" proves the Chicago boys are absolutely on fiiyahh.

It's fair to say their sound has changed dramatically over the years and the modern music tastes of the masses are trying to be pleased with the new record, "Save Rock & Roll." Calling an album that straight away makes me kind of not want to listen to it. A swell of symphonic strings opens the track cinematically before a gritty-voiced frontman Patrick Stump belts the album's first battle cry. The lyric, "I'll raise you like a phoenix," is a reference to the mythical bird of ancient times that burned itself to death on a pyre every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from the ashes. The phoenix was subsequently adopted as a symbol of resurrection in early Christianity.
When we last saw Fall Out Boy in "My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up)" clip, they found themselves in a precarious position, kidnapped and blindfolded by nefarious villains. The new clip for "The Phoenix," serves as a prequel to last one, and it sheds light on the first video's story. The band explained a bit more on their website today: "it tells the tale of how we ended up blindfolded in the back of the black van in the #mskwyditd video. This is chapter 2 of 11(from album). Stay tuned for chapter 3, coming to a computer, tablet, or phone near you soon."
Directed by Donald/Zaeh, the rather graphic video details the abduction of each of the band members by a handful of female kidnappers one by one. Taking a page from Pulp Fiction, the rockers finds themselves in possession of a mysterious briefcase. They're all targeted by a secretive group of masked women assisted by a disarming kid on a bike, but Stump takes the brunt of the abuse, enduring extensive torture and getting his hands sliced clean off his wrists, and ends with Stump's bloody hand snapping at a dinner table. The clip  is reminiscent of an especially gory episode of "Criminal Minds."

If the snow and cold weather has you down, take a trip to the beach with Muse in today's video for their soon-to-be-released single, "Supremacy," the lead single from English alternative rock band's most recent dystrophy-worthy sixth studio album, "The 2nd Law," which has already sold 1.5 million copies worldwide.
Muse open their latest album with "Supremacy," reportedly written for the latest James Bond film "Skyfall" but was rejected in favor of Adele's "Skyfall" theme, in which they foresee the collapse of industrial civilization. The track is a bit of stately, epic stadium rock which starts off slow and gradually builds to squealing guitars, symphony strings, lead singer Matt Bellamy's almost-operatic vocals and headbanging mayhem with iron-fisted guitar-drums interplay that could keep the trains running on time.

Spiraling swamp blues of the track builds to a climax of orchestral hysteria as Bellamy orates a terrifying scene of mankind losing its supremacy over the Earth as the seas have risen up and energy shortages cause global desperation. A pivot away from Muse's previous material, the focus on subtle sonic textures in "Supremacy" marks a new, more nuanced direction for the Brit pomp rockers.
The video is appropriately gonzo. Featuring a crew of face-painted black-metal lovers hanging out, surfing, skating, biking while hoisting flaming swords and even hosting a sunset wedding and having a whale of a time in Los Angeles, as the band jam out on a boat and bashes out the monstrous prog rock epic against a backdrop of Goth surfers. It just doesn't match the Bond theme-like track it's paired with. The only thing the song and the video have in common is they're just awesome.

The British atmospheric powerful rock trio Muse has been chosen to represent the UK at the upcoming London Summer Olympics with their latest track "Survival," the lead single from the English alternative rock band's sixth studio album, "The 2nd Law," is scheduled to be released on September 17th. With the games scheduled to kick off on July 27, audiences can now expect this thundering rock anthem to play throughout the Olympics.
"Survival" gradually emerges as another of Muse's chorus-less, build-to-a-cataclysmic-climax mood pieces. The lyrics match this competitive mentality, "Survival" certainly gives off an enormous vibe. It feels like a classic rock jam that Queen or ELO would've crafted, rife with strings, pianos, guitars and choir vocals. Appropriately, it's comprised entirely of various athletic feats from past Olympic games. The group says that the song is "about total conviction and pure determination to win."
That goes a long way toward explaining why Muse don't appear at all in the just-revealed video for "Survival," which instead features a thrilling montage of past Olympic glory and defeat. Because the Olympics area all about inclusion and global unity, the nearly four-minute clip makes sure to include all the sports that will be featured. "Survival" might be amongst the most ear-scorchingly, arse-burstingly, aneurysm-inducingly brilliant songs in Muse's canon, and it's clear that Muse have the spirit of the Olympics in mind.
The clip opens with a quick rewind through some of the Games' biggest moments back from 2012 to 1896, the birth of the modern games, which rolls out over triumphant moments from the past century-plus of competition. As frontman Matthew Bellamy begins his Queen-like call to athletic greatness we see a montage of sportsmen and women staring with intensity and raising their arms in victory. In the middle the Olympic credo, "Faster, Higher, Stronger" flashes across the screen as the song builds to a chorus-assisted crescendo. It's as insanely overblown as the Olympics themselves.

Dutch symphonic metal rock outfit Within Temptation have released a music video for "Sinéad." The video takes place at a nightclub where things soon get very dangerous. The irresistible, fan-favourite track is the second single from Within Temptation's fifth studio and first concept album, "The Unforgiving." Choosing to release "Sinéad" as the follow-up underlines the band's ambition to break down the walls between musical genres. "Sinéad" is the most catchy song Within Temptation have ever written; a euphoric disco-metal stomper with the potential to become the ultimate crossover-hit on the dance floors this summer.
It is the beginning of a new era for Within Temptation. With undeniable disco grooves, the band took this opportunity to further enhance the track's dance floor appeal; commissioning special remixes from four acclaimed dance producers. Already triumphant in rock and metal, Within Temptation now experiment further with the extremes of rock and dance, merging these seemingly disparate genres to create contagious new versions of "Sinéad," which is blurring the lines between rock, dance, pop, and metal music in an unprecedented way.
The band enlisted the help of trance producer Benno de Goeij, electro-industrial artists VNV Nation, and happy hardcore band Scooter to put together a remix with heavy dance influences, departing from their usual Gothic rock fare. "We thought it would be interesting to see what would happen if 'real' dance [artists] would remix the track," said the band on their website" "'Sinéad' has always been a favorite of all of us. She is a character with a lot of different opposite sides to her, just like the song. It is catchy and feel good but at the same time emotional and melancholic. So from the start it was quite clear that 'Sinéad' would be released as a single from this album."
Such dark subject matter abounds in "The Unforgiving." In a February interview with Metal Ways, frontwoman Sharon den Adel stated, "The story is about people who have done bad things not because they are bad, but because they made bad decisions." With such a somber overtone, it is difficult to imagine how "Sinéad" could be transformed into a dance song. Within Temptation have promised to keep fans posted. Adel's voice and the bombastic rock of Within Temptation are a truly unique mixture. Her voice always sounds incredible but, on this track, it reaches a whole new level of beautiful, intense, and fragile emotion.

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers Within Temptation's music video in abutment of their new distinct "Faster" has aloof fabricated its way out. It was released as a short movie "Mother Maiden", introducing the main character played by British actress Dawn Mastin. The "Faster" video is visually vivid, and has a graphic novel and noir film pastiche to it. Check out the Spider-Man like creepy-crawlers in the opening frame.
Within Temptation was founded in 1996 by the couple, frontwoman vocalist Sharon den Adel and rhythm guitarist Robert Westerholt. They have come a long way in the last fourteen years. From their humble beginnings, the band have now making them not only Holland's biggest selling musical export but also one of the biggest rock acts internationally. Released on January 21, "Faster" is serves as the lead from the metal/rock band's long-awaited new concept album "The Unforgiving," to be released on March 29. The album is released alongside both a comic book series and a series of short films that together encompass a story.
The first short film revolves around a powerful medium, "Mother Maiden," as she recruits lost souls to be part of her wraith task-force to fight evil in all its forms. She offers the "remorseful souls" an opportunity to "make right what is wrong" by giving them missions and assignments to hunt down evil as a penance for their previous sins. It ties in with "Faster," introducing the main characters of the narrative. These movies give further insight into the concept of "The Unforgiving" and are based on the comic book storyline that has been unfolding on the band's site. Each film is followed by a band performance that, all together, form a dark and compelling tale of life, love, revenge, rage and regret.
Westerholt said on band's official site that: "'Faster' is a song which surprised ourselves. It's a very fresh new sound wrapped around the 80'ties heart and soul of the track. 'Faster' reflects one of the many musical roots we have. Combined with the modern influences on our new album, it's like the past and future created the present." The edited music video, part of the "Faster & Mother Maiden Short Film" is the first of three short films to be released this year. It consists of the band playing a shortened version of the song with clips of the first short film. The following day, the first short film, "Mother Maiden," was released. This release included an extended version of the "Faster" video without the clips but with the guitar solo.