Claude says:The band recorded this across four continents over three years to work around Jared Leto's acting schedule, with the title track and several others written in Cape Town — where Leto conceived the album's title, replacing the original working title The Battle of One. You picked it up in late 2006 and played it heavily through 2007, with "The Kill" and "From Yesterday" among the singles, then continued listening in shorter stretches over the next decade and a half.