10 Hard Rock Music Videos That Got Banned

10. Hurricane - Thirty Seconds To Mars

Four years after they first made it big with the album A Beautiful Lie, Thirty Seconds to Mars roared back with 2009's This is War. That's a pun because the album cover is a picture of a tiger.

The fourth and final single released off this record was Hurricane, a big, chunky song filled with lead singer Jared Leto's trademark pseudo-poetic lyrics.

Equally as artsy was the music video, which amounted to more of a short film clocking in at over 13 minutes. Leto himself directed the piece under the name Bartholomew Cubbins, which is one of the greatest aliases in music history.

Hurricane's video follows the three band members as they attempt to escape the clutches of various attackers. They get tied up, chased with sledgehammers, and are forced into sexual activities with two women.

Various music channels were not happy with the sexual content of the video, as well as its violence and themes of religion. An edited version eventually found its way onto our screens.

Wait, there was another recording of this song? Maybe that one will be less controversial. Oh, it featured Kanye West. Never mind.