Question: Were the bands Stone Sour and Thirty Seconds to Mars formed in the same state?

Context articles: Carnivores Tour
Bother (song)
List of songs recorded by Stone Sour
Thirty Seconds to Mars
30 Seconds to Mars (album)
Artifact (film)
Stone Sour
List of songs recorded by Thirty Seconds to Mars
The Mansion (recording studio)
Tomo Miličević

The Carnivores Tour was a co-headlining concert tour by American rock bands Linkin Park and Thirty Seconds to Mars.
 It was launched in support of Linkin Park's sixth studio album "The Hunting Party" (2014) and Thirty Seconds to Mars' fourth studio album "Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams" (2013).
 The joint tour was officially announced in March 2014 at a press conference, with the full itinerary being revealed.
 It began on August 8, 2014 in West Palm Beach, Florida and ended on September 19 in Concord, California, visiting arenas and stadiums throughout North America.
 It was promoted by Live Nation and sponsored in-part by Infinity.
 American rock band AFI served as the opening act for the tour.
"Bother" is the second single from the heavy metal band Stone Sour's self-titled debut album.
 It was originally released as a solo song by frontman Corey Taylor, but the billing was later changed to Stone Sour.
 The song was one of Stone Sour's first songs to put them into the mainstream.
 The cover features Taylor's hands and rings, one of them being a Spider-Man ring which is a reference to the song being featured on the soundtrack to the film "Spider-Man" (although the track is credited to Taylor as the performer not Stone Sour) and to Taylor being a fan of Spider-Man.
 The other has the number 8 on it, representing Taylor's number in Slipknot.
 Taylor has stated that the song is about when he moved back to Des Moines from Denver, where he hoped to try to move forward with his music.
Stone Sour is an American alternative metal band from Des Moines, Iowa.
 Originally formed in 1992 by vocalist Corey Taylor, guitarist Josh Rand, bassist Shawn Economaki and drummer Joel Ekman, the band was active until 1997, when Taylor left to join Slipknot.
 Guitarist Jim Root, who had joined the band later, also joined Slipknot in 1999.
 Stone Sour reunited several years later, releasing its full-length debut album "Stone Sour" in 2002 which featured songs from early demos. Ekman was replaced by Roy Mayorga in 2006, who performed on the band's second album "Come What(ever) May".
 The songs on the album were written by Taylor, Root, Rand and Economaki.
Thirty Seconds to Mars (commonly stylized as 30 Seconds to Mars) is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998.
 The band consists of Jared Leto (lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards), Shannon Leto (drums, percussion) and Tomo Miličević (lead guitar, bass, violin, keyboards, other instruments).
30 Seconds to Mars is the debut studio album by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
 It was first released on August 27, 2002, by Immortal Records and distributed by Virgin Records.
 The album was produced by Bob Ezrin, Brian Virtue, and Thirty Seconds to Mars, and was recorded in rural Wyoming during 2001 and early 2002.
 It had been in the works for a couple of years, with lead vocalist Jared Leto writing the majority of the songs.
Artifact is a 2012 American documentary film.
 It was directed by Jared Leto under the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins, and produced by Leto and Emma Ludbrook.
 "Artifact" chronicles the modern music business as it charts the legal dispute between Leto's rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars and record label EMI, which filed a $30 million breach of contract lawsuit against them in 2008, after the band tried to exit its contract over a royalties dispute.
 Thirty Seconds to Mars is shown working with producer Flood to create the 2009 album "This Is War", meeting with lawyers between recording sessions.
Stone Sour is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa in 1992, performing for five years, before disbanding in 1997.
 They reunited in 2000 and since 2006, the group has consisted of Corey Taylor (lead vocals, guitar), Josh Rand (guitar) and Roy Mayorga (drums).
 Longtime members Joel Ekman (drums, percussion), Shawn Economaki (bass guitar), and Jim Root (guitar) left the group in 2006, 2011, and 2014 respectively.
American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars has recorded material for four studio albums.
 The band was formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1998 by brothers Jared and Shannon Leto.
 The duo later expanded to a four-piece when they added guitarist Solon Bixler and bassist Matt Wachter to the line-up.
 After signing a contract with record label Immortal Records in 1998, the band began to work with producers Bob Ezrin and Brian Virtue on their debut album, "30 Seconds to Mars", which was released in August 2002.
 The album produced two singles, "Capricorn (A Brand New Name)" and "Edge of the Earth".
 In early 2003, Bixler left the band due to issues primarily related to touring and was replaced by Tomo Miličević.
 Thirty Seconds to Mars released their second studio album, "A Beautiful Lie", in August 2005.
 The record, produced by Josh Abraham, was preceded by the single "Attack" and spawned two Kerrang!
 Award-winning singles, "The Kill" and "From Yesterday".
 The album's title track, "A Beautiful Lie", was released as the fourth single in selected territories. "
Hunter", a song originally performed by Björk, was covered by the band and added to the track listing of the album.
 In March 2007, Wachter left the group to spend more time with his family and was replaced by Tim Kelleher, performing live only.
The Mansion is a 10-bedroom mansion owned by music producer Rick Rubin in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles.
 Originally built in 1925, the house is famous for the successful bands who have recorded music there.
 Although </ref> no one has ever lived in the Mansion under the name "Houdini", a fact that Corey Taylor, singer of the bands Stone Sour and Slipknot, has said in his book "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven".
 The book also describes his paranormal experiences in the Mansion while recording Slipknot's 2003 album "".
 After recording the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" with considerable ease and comfort, Rubin decided to use the mansion to record many of the albums he has produced, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers's "Stadium Arcadium", Audioslave's "Out of Exile", The Mars Volta's "De-Loused in the Comatorium", Slipknot's "", and Linkin Park's "Minutes to Midnight".
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.