30 Seconds To Mars - Leto Defends Record Label War

30 SECONDS TO MARS frontman JARED LETO is proud the band battled against record giant EMI - and has vowed to do it again.

The rockers were sued by the parent company of their label Virgin Music for $30 million (£20 million) over claims they failed to produce an agreed number of albums.

They refused to buckle to the demands of industry bosses and fought back - and the case was eventually settled earlier this year (09).

Although part of the agreement is that the band does not discuss the details, Leto insists it was a battle worth fighting.

He tells Kerrang! magazine, "There were many, many f**king brutal days. We were dragged through the ringer. It was not an easy fight... It was an impossible battle, against a bigger, wealthier and stronger opponent.

"But we were fighting for very specific things; we were fighting for fairness, and the right to be treated as people rather than as a commodity. (People) say that there is no fight like the fight of the just. There wasn't a day went by that we questioned the choice we were making, which was to go to war. And if we had to go through it all again we would do it exactly the same."