Check Out How Your Favorite Musicians Stumbled Into Choosing Their Now-Iconic Names

30 Seconds To Mars Got Philosophical

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Alternative rock band 30 Seconds To Mars are smarter than they look. The name came after the band members noticed an interesting phrase in a thesis paper where the author said that humanity was moving so fast that they were basically “thirty seconds to Mars.”

Well, the band liked the phrase and used it to represent a bunch of ideas. Over the years the band members have related the name to Mars as the god of war and said in an interview that the name is “lyrical, suggestive, cinematic, and filled with immediacy” just like their songs.