Muse (band)
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Background information | |
Origin | Teignmouth, Devon, England |
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Discography | Muse discography |
Years active | 1994–present |
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Spinoffs | The Jaded Hearts Club |
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Website | muse |
Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of Matt Bellamy (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Chris Wolstenholme (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion).
Muse released their debut album, Showbiz, in 1999, showcasing Bellamy's falsetto and a melancholic alternative rock style. Their second album, Origin of Symmetry (2001), incorporated wider instrumentation and romantic classical influences and earned them a reputation for energetic live performances.[1] Absolution (2003) saw further classical influence, with strings on tracks such as "Butterflies and Hurricanes", and was the first of seven consecutive UK number-one albums.
Muse have won
History
Early years (1994–1997)
The members of Muse played in separate school bands during their time at
In 1994, Rocket Baby Dolls won a local
First EPs and Showbiz (1998–2000)
After a few years building a fanbase, Muse played their first gigs in London and
Later in 1999, Muse performed on the Emerging Artist's stage at Woodstock '99 and signed with Smith and Jaffery. Despite the success of their second EP, British record companies were reluctant to sign Muse. After a trip to New York's CMJ Festival, Nanci Walker, then Sr. Director of A&R at Columbia Records, flew Muse to the US to showcase for Columbia Records' then-Senior Vice-president of A&R, Tim Devine, as well as for American Recording's Rick Rubin. During this trip, on 24 December 1998, Muse signed a deal with American record label Maverick Records.[13] Upon their return to England, Taste Media arranged deals for Muse with various record labels in Europe and Australia, allowing them control over their career in individual countries.[14] John Leckie was brought in alongside Reeve to produce the band's first album, Showbiz (1999). The album showcased Muse's aggressive yet melancholic musical style, with lyrics about relationships and their difficulties trying to establish themselves in their hometown.[15]
Origin of Symmetry and Hullabaloo (2000–2002)
During the production of their second album, Origin of Symmetry (2001), Muse experimented with instrumentation such as a
Origin of Symmetry received positive reviews. NME gave it 9/10 and wrote: "It's amazing for such a young band to load up with a heritage that includes the darker visions of
Origin of Symmetry has made appearances on lists of the greatest rock albums of the 2000s, both poll-based and on publication lists. In 2006, it placed at number 74 on Q magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Albums of All-Time,[23] while in February 2008, the album placed at number 28 on a list of the Best British Albums of All Time determined by the magazine's readers. Kerrang! placed the album at number 20 in its 100 Best British Rock Albums Ever! List and at number 13 on its 50 Best Albums of the 21st Century list.[24]
In 2002, Muse released the first live DVD,
In 2002, Muse threatened Celine Dion with legal action when she planned to name her Las Vegas show "Muse", as Muse had worldwide performing rights to the name. Muse refused an offer from Dion of $50,000 for the rights, as they feared it could harm their chances of breaking into the US market. Bellamy said: "We don't want to turn up there with people thinking we're Celine Dion's backing band."[25]
Absolution (2003–2005)
Muse's third album, Absolution, produced by Rich Costey, Paul Reeve and John Cornfield was released on 15 September 2003. It debuted at number one in the UK[26] and produced Muse's first top-ten hit, "Time Is Running Out", and three top-twenty hits: "Hysteria", "Sing for Absolution" and "Butterflies and Hurricanes". Absolution was eventually certified gold in the US.[27] Muse undertook a year-long international tour in support of the album, visiting Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and France. On the 2004 US leg of the tour, Bellamy injured himself onstage during the opening show in Atlanta;[28] the tour resumed after Bellamy received stitches.[29]
In June 2004, Muse headlined the Glastonbury Festival, which they later described as "the best gig of our lives".[30][31] Howard's father, William Howard, who attended the festival to watch the band, died from a heart attack shortly after the performance. Bellamy said: "It was the biggest feeling of achievement we've ever had after coming offstage. It was almost surreal that an hour later his dad died. It was almost not believable. We spent about a week sort of just with Dom trying to support him. I think he was happy that at least his dad got to see him at probably what was the finest moment so far of the band's life."[32]
Muse won two MTV Europe awards, including "Best Alternative Act", and a Q Award for "Best Live Act",
Muse released another live DVD on 12 December 2005,
Black Holes and Revelations and HAARP (2006–2008)
In 2006, Muse released their fourth album, Black Holes and Revelations, co-produced once again with Rich Costey. The album's title and themes reflect the band's interest in science fiction.[38][39] The album charted at number one in the UK, much of Europe, and Australia.[40][41][42] In the US, it reached number nine on the Billboard 200.[40]
Before the release of the new album, Muse made several promotional TV appearances starting on 13 May 2006 at
Black Holes and Revelations was nominated for the 2006
Muse spent November and much of December 2006 touring Europe with British band
The tour continued across Europe in July 2007 before returning to the US in August, where Muse played to a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden, New York City.[54][55] They headlined the second night of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on 15 September, and performed at the October Vegoose in Las Vegas with bands including Rage Against the Machine, Daft Punk and Queens of the Stone Age.[54] Muse continued touring in Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Australia, and New Zealand in 2007[49] before going to South Africa, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Ireland, and the UK in 2008.[56] On 12 April, they played a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.[57]
Muse performed at
The Resistance (2009–2011)
During the recording of Muse's fifth studio album, The Resistance, Wolstenholme checked into rehab to deal with his alcoholism, which was threatening the band's future. Howard said: "I've always believed in band integrity and sticking together. There's something about the fact we all grew up together. We've been together for 18 years now, which is over half our lives."[63]
The Resistance was released in September 2009, the first album produced by Muse,
The Resistance Tour began with A Seaside Rendezvous in Muse's hometown of Teignmouth, Devon, in September 2009. It included headline slots the following year at festivals including Coachella,[72] Glastonbury,[73] Oxegen,[74] Hovefestivalen,[75] T in the Park, Austin City Limits and the Australian Big Day Out.[76] Between September and November, Muse toured North America.[77]
Muse provided the lead single for the film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)", released on 17 May 2010.[78] In June, Muse headlined Glastonbury Festival for the second time. After U2 canceled their headline slot following their singer Bono's back injury, their guitarist, the Edge, joined Muse to play the U2 track "Where the Streets Have No Name".[79]
For their live performances, Muse received the O2
Based on having the largest airplay and sales in the US, Muse were named the Billboard
The 2nd Law and Live at Rome Olympic Stadium (2012–2013)
In an April 2012 interview, Bellamy said Muse's next album would include influences from acts such as
Muse revealed the 2nd Law tracklist on 13 July 2012.
Muse released their fourth live album, Live at Rome Olympic Stadium, on 29 November 2013 on CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray formats. In November 2013, the film had theatrical screenings in 20 cities worldwide. The album contains the band's performance at Rome's Stadio Olimpico on 6 July 2013, in front of over 60,000 people; it was the first concert filmed in 4K format.[104] The concert was a part of the Unsustainable Tour, Muse's mid-2013 tour of Europe.[104]
Drones (2014–2016)
Muse began writing their seventh album soon after the Rome concert. The band felt that the electronic side of their music was becoming too dominant, and wanted to return to a simpler rock sound.[105][106] After self-producing their previous two albums, the band hired producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange so they could focus on performance and spend less time mixing and reviewing takes.[106] Recording took place in the Vancouver Warehouse Studio from October 2014 to April 2015.[107][108]
Muse announced their seventh album,
From 15 March to 16 May, Muse embarked on a short tour in small venues throughout the UK and the US, the
Drones was released on 8 June 2015.
Simulation Theory and reissues (2017–2021)
In 2017, Muse toured North America, supported by
On 19 July 2018, Muse released the third single from their upcoming album, "Something Human",[133][134] followed by "The Dark Side" on 30 August[135] and "Pressure" on 27 September.[136] Muse released their eighth studio album, Simulation Theory, with a focus on 80s-inspired synthesisers, on 9 November.[137] The Simulation Theory World Tour began in Houston on 3 February 2019 and concluded on 15 October in Lima.[138][139] A film based on the album and tour, Muse – Simulation Theory, combining concert footage and narrative scenes, was released in August 2020.[140]
In December 2019, Muse released Origin of Muse, a box set comprising remastered versions of Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry plus previously unreleased material.[141] For the 20th anniversary of Origin of Symmetry in June 2021, Muse released a remixed and remastered version, Origin of Symmetry: XX Anniversary RemiXX.[142]
Will of the People (2022–present)
On 13 January 2022, Muse released the single "Won't Stand Down", which marked a return to their heavier early sound.[143][144] On 9 March, Muse posted a 35-second clip across various social media platforms depicting large busts of the band members being torn down.[145] On 17 March, Muse announced their ninth album, Will of the People, with a release date of 26 August 2022. Ahead of the release, Muse released the singles "Compliance", "Will of the People", "Kill or Be Killed" and "You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween".[146][147]
The Will of the People World Tour began in April 2022. Muse's touring member, Morgan Nicholls, was replaced by Dan Lancaster on additional keys, percussion, guitar and vocals.[44] On 17 November 2023, Muse released a 20th-anniversary reissue of Absolution, featuring bonus tracks, live recordings and demos.[148]
Musical style
Described as a band that fuse alternative rock,[149][150][151] progressive rock,[152][153][154] space rock,[155][156][157] hard rock,[158][159] art rock,[160][161] electronic rock,[144] progressive metal,[162] indie rock[163] and pop,[154] Muse also mix sounds from genres such as electronica[164] and R&B,[164] with forms such as classical music and rock opera.[165] In 2002, Bellamy described Muse as a "trashy three-piece".[166] He said supporting the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their 1999 Californication tour inspired Muse to become less reserved and "up their game" in their performances.[167]
Early in their career, Muse were often likened to Radiohead.[22] Spin wrote that Bellamy's voice "often slips into high, mournful tones" similar to the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke.[22] John Leckie, who produced Muse's first two albums and also produced Radiohead's second album, The Bends (1995), dismissed the comparisons, saying: "In the late 90s, any British band that sang passionately and played guitar was going to get compared to Radiohead." He said he chose to produce Muse after The Bends because he "intentionally looked for something different".[22] Asked in 2009, Bellamy said Muse were "past that in most places" and that he did not hear the similarity.[22]
In 2006, Pitchfork described Muse's music as "firmly ol' skool at heart: proggy hard rock that forgoes any pretensions to restraint ... their songs use full-stacked guitars and thunderous drums to evoke God's footsteps".[158][168] AllMusic described their sound as a "fusion of progressive rock, glam, electronica, and Radiohead-influenced experimentation".[169] On Muse's association with progressive rock, Howard said: "I associate [progressive rock] with 10-minute guitar solos, but I guess we kind of come into the category. A lot of bands are quite ambitious with their music, mixing lots of different styles – and when I see that I think it's great. I've noticed that kind of thing becoming a bit more mainstream."[170]
For their second album,
Muse's sixth album,
Musicianship
Many Muse songs are recognisable by Bellamy's vocal
Wolstenholme's basslines provide a motif for many Muse songs; the band combines bass guitar with effects and synthesisers to create overdriven fuzz bass tones.[184] Bellamy and Wolstenholme use touch-screen controllers, often built into their instruments, to control synthesisers and effects including Kaoss Pads and Digitech Whammy pedals.[185]
Lyrics
Most earlier Muse songs lyrically dealt with introspective themes, including relationships, social alienation, and difficulties they had encountered while trying to establish themselves in their hometown. However, with the band's progress, their song concepts have become more ambitious, addressing issues such as the fear of the evolution of technology in their Origin of Symmetry (2001) album. They deal mainly with the apocalypse in Absolution (2003) and with catastrophic war in Black Holes and Revelations (2006). The Resistance (2009) focused on themes of government oppression, uprising, love, and panspermia. The album itself was mainly inspired by Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Their sixth studio album, The 2nd Law (2012), relates to economics, thermodynamics, and apocalyptic themes. Their 2015 album, Drones, is a concept album that uses autonomous killing drones as a metaphor for brainwashing and loss of empathy.
Books that have influenced Muse's lyrical themes include Nineteen Eighty-Four,
Band members
Touring musicians
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Former touring musicians
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Discography
- Showbiz (1999)
- Origin of Symmetry (2001)
- Absolution (2003)
- Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
- The Resistance (2009)
- The 2nd Law (2012)
- Drones (2015)
- Simulation Theory (2018)
- Will of the People (2022)
Concert tours
- Showbiz Tour (1998–2000)
- Origin of Symmetry Tour (2000–2002)
- Absolution Tour (2003–2004)
- US Campus Invasion Tour 2005 (2005)
- Black Holes and Revelations Tour (2006–2008)
- The Resistance Tour (2009–2011)
- The 2nd Law World Tour (2012–2014)
- Psycho Tour (2015)
- Drones World Tour (2015–2016)
- North American Tour (with Thirty Seconds to Mars and Pvris) (2017)
- Simulation Theory World Tour (2019)
- Will of the People World Tour (2022–2023)
See also
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External links
- Official website
- Muse discography at Discogs