Is Smoking Popes or Thirty Seconds to Mars from further west?
Smoking Popes The Smoking Popes is an American pop punk band from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1991. They play punk-influenced pop music with crooning vocals. The core of the group is composed of brothers Matt Caterer (born 1968), Josh Caterer (born 1972) and Eli Caterer (born 1975).
Tomo Miličević Tomislav "Tomo" Miličević (] ; born September 3, 1979) is an American musician and record producer best known as the lead guitarist of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. Born in Sarajevo but raised in the United States, Miličević moved to Troy, Michigan in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local heavy metal scene and played in a number of bands, co-founding Morphic. In 2003, he joined Thirty Seconds to Mars, with whom he achieved worldwide recognition in the mid-2000s after recording the band's second album "A Beautiful Lie" (2005). Its full-length follow-ups, "This Is War" (2009) and "Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams" (2013), received further critical and commercial success.