30 Seconds To Mars End Legal Drama By Rejoining EMI

Jared Leto tells fans that ''reuniting is the best route for the music'' as the band resign with former label.

Posted Wednesday, 29 April 2009 in

30 Seconds To Mars have announced that they have reunited with EMI/Virgin, their former record label that sued for $30 million after the band terminated their contract last year after frustrations with the label boiled over.

Frontman Jared Leto posted a lengthy letter to fans about the reunion online, below is perhaps the most salient quote:

''Over the past eight months, there was plenty of internal debate about our future, about how far to take this fight, about what is important to us as artists, as individuals, as a band. About whether to put our new album out through a traditional record company or to experiment and break new ground. Many feel that the system now is antiquated and that with the help of new technologies and available platforms the conventional method is quickly on its way out. Others feel no one does it better than the experienced companies that have serviced most of us with the majority of music we love. It's a great and endless debate. We are in the death throws of one system and the birth of another, which is as exciting at times as it can be painful.

After carefully considering all of our options, what would be gained, what could be potentially lost, we ultimately decided that reuniting with EMI/Virgin would be the absolute best route for the music and that no matter what, sharing this latest creative adventure with you all in the most timely manner possible is the most important part of any of it.''

Read the full letter by clicking here and let us know what you think, have 30 Seconds To Mars won the war or sold themselves short?