

Editors’ Notes Recorded in the midst of a bitter contract dispute, This Is War is a show of outsized bravado. “This is not a game,” Jared Leto cautions atop the foreboding synthscape of “Escape," and for the next hour his alt-rock armada unleashes a maelstrom of industrialized post-grunge angst. The relentless intensity suits Leto’s acting chops. Amid the techno-emo of “Night of the Hunter,” he declares: “I will break your heart/Tear you to pieces and rip you apart”—and yet still sounds sympathetic.
Escape
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2:24
Night of the Hunter
2
5:40
Kings and Queens
3
5:47
This Is War
4
5:27
100 Suns
5
1:58
Hurricane
6
6:12
Closer To the Edge
7
4:33
Vox Populi
8
5:42
Search and Destroy
9
5:38
Alibi
10
5:59
Stranger In a Strange Land
11
6:54
L490
12
4:26
Kings and Queens (LA Riots Main Vocal Mix)
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6:11