Walk On Water- Thirty Seconds To Mars Review

Image result for walk on water 30 seconds to mars album artI never really liked Thirty Seconds To Mars. They were suggested as similar to Imagine Dragons, so I listened to them only to be met with overblown bombastic stadium rock garbage that could never decide on at least one instrument other than drums to have in more than one song in a row. The video for This Is War is absolutely idiotic, saying the video is about peace and then showing a marine screaming and firing random bursts(at least he wasn't spinning in circles). Despite all this, Beautiful Lie is an actual good song, with its focus mainly on guitar.                                                               

Background aside, Walk On Water itself is okay. It's still overblown, and at least mixes swaggering verses with the gigantic gospel choir aided chorus that has nothing to do with the song's supposed call for political unity in America. I also can't really tell what instruments there are in the song other than possibly guitars, due to its mash of crowded instrumentals. I think its better than some of their other songs, but if they want to make actual good music on their next album they should stick to one coherent style, hopefully being the guitar based stuff they can actually get right.

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