24, while the American promo campaign kicks off with a Sept. Live, Muse is “warming up” with three weeks supporting U2 in the United States starting Sept. Although if someone was to read the song title, they’d probably expect some really ’70s prog-rock, Rush-style symphony.” “I don’t think ‘Exogenesis’ is deliberately flamboyant in any way. “I hope it’ll surprise people with the subtlety of the orchestration,” Bellamy says. The creation of the album’s climactic, fully orchestrated “Exogenesis: Symphony Parts I-III,” meanwhile, dates in part to the writing period around the band’s third album, “Absolution” (2003), and was further catalyzed by Bellamy’s contribution to the soundtrack for Clive Owen’s 2008 thriller “The International.”
that gave us musical ideas that wouldn’t have happened if we didn’t do that tour.” “I remember listening to music I’d never heard before in Dubai-stuff that certainly had an effect on songs like ‘Eurasia,’ ” he says. Instead, the band accepted offers to tour South America, South Africa and the Middle East, a trip that proved influential for Bellamy. Songwriting for the album began in early 2008, with recording originally scheduled for that summer.
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“We wanted to make sure that we super-service the fans,” says Matthieu Lauriot-Prevost, senior VP of international marketing at Warner Music International, adding that before the label did any “deals with specific platforms, we were servicing the Web site because we really want the fans to be there first.”įans who pre-order the album from the official site are signed up to the Join the Resistance club, which entitles them to seven weeks of exclusive free video and audio downloads. Once all had been discovered and their contents uploaded to the site, the song was pasted together and made available for streaming. On its Web site Muse.mu, it supplied fans with clues to the sticks’ locations in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Hong Kong, New York and Dubai. Prior to “Uprising” the band had unveiled another track, “United States of Eurasia,” as part of an international treasure hunt in which the band hid USB sticks containing portions of the song in seven cities. 81 and on Billboard’s Rock Songs chart at No. 4 in the United States, is an anthemic, shuffle-beat stomp with lines postulating approvingly about how “the fat cats had a heart attack.” It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. The first single, “Uprising,” released digitally Aug. It’s also the first that Bellamy, drummer Dom Howard and bassist Chris Wolstenholme recorded in one place-a warren of converted cellars on the edge of Lake Como in northern Italy, where Bellamy now lives. “The Resistance” is Muse’s fifth album, but the first for which the band took charge of production duties.
Muse's Matt Bellamy Weighs In on the First Image of a Supermassive Black Hole
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