Claude says:This Is War arrived in 2009 as 30 Seconds to Mars' defiant third album, all arena-sized hooks and anthemic anger—Jared Leto and the crew leaning hard into that swollen rock sound they'd been building toward. You kept coming back to Kings and Queens like a mantra, and the title track itself hit different when you needed that cathartic surge, evidence of an album that knew exactly what it wanted to be and refused to apologize for the size of it.