haha that's so true. the album cover is interesting. kinda. a bit odd. but it will all make sense as we hear the album, i suppose.

excitement X 144950523! :heart:

wow ... another track - Map Of Problematique was played tonight live on Mtv2 ... this is absolutely amazing ... love it! this album is just gonna be brilliant

.... and here it is, have a listen! ...

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/22059095/Muse_-_Map_Of_Problematique_Live.mp3.html

Epic U.K. Rockers Muse Return With Cinematic New Album

 

Trio's "Black Holes and Revelations" features experiments with electronica and flamenco

 

 

 

 

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Orchestral rock trio Muse return on July 11th with Black Holes and Revelations, the follow-up to 2003's Absolution. The lead single, the electronica-tinged "Supermassive Black Hole," has just hit radio, driven by singer Matthew Bellamy's trademark falsetto.

"That song is completely opposite to what the band has been doing in the past," says Bellamy of the first track off their fourth effort. "I like it a lot. It shows a different side of the band. It's got more of a groove element to it, and it's nice if guitar bands can steal back the dance floor a little bit."

In order to create Black Holes over the last year, Bellamy, drummer Dominic Howard and bassist Chris Wolstenhome teamed with longtime associate Rich Costey, who served as co-producer. Bellamy allowed his imagination to run wild lyrically -- "Glaciers melting in the dead of night/And the superstars sucked into the supermassive," he sings on the single -- and he found himself drawn to electronica, as well as harmonium and brass lines.

"I like trying to find inspiration from those more unknown areas of yourself," Bellamy explains. "The reason why the trumpets and some of the other stranger instrumentations came in is we didn't hold back in terms of taking a fringe idea to its full extent," says Bellamy, describing the resulting sound as "filmlike."

The cinematic feel of tracks such as "City of Delusion" and "Knights of Cydonia" might be due to the frontman's recent relocation from his native Britain to Italy. Living not far from actor George Clooney's digs, the singer-guitarist immersed himself in local six-string music. "From living in northern Italy, I became interested in southern Italian music and music from the South of Spain, like flamenco guitar," says Bellamy. "When you hear it, it sounds like the music from the [spaghetti] western films."

The move sent him back in time musically, but when he set about writing lyrics, they came out brimming with modern topics. "Exo Politics" charts an "orchestrated alien invasion for the purpose of increasing military budgets and building space weapons," he says, while "A Soldier's Poem" is about fighting back. "I'm singing from the perspective of the person who's at the bottom of the pyramid awakening to the fact that they are being played as a pawn," Bellamy explains. "It's about wanting to fight against that and wanting to make a change."

Muse will tour the U.S. in July.

 

JOLIE LASH

Posted May 25, 2006 5:09 PM

 

 

 

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10387034/epic_uk_rockers_muse_return_with_cinematic_new_album

"Exo Politics" charts an "orchestrated alien invasion for the purpose of increasing military budgets and building space weapons," he says.

 

:laugh3: I really want to hear that one. I love these guys.

wow ... another track - Map Of Problematique was played tonight live on Mtv2 ... this is absolutely amazing ... love it! this album is just gonna be brilliant

.... and here it is, have a listen! ...

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/22059095/Muse_-_Map_Of_Problematique_Live.mp3.html

 

i love you. really i do. :kiss:

:heart:

oh my :dead:

this song is amazing... gosh. it is phenomenal. i can't wait till this album is out. it's going to be incredible...

^wow you've sold it to me gona listen to Map Of Problematique

 

The song supermassive black hole is awesome!

wow ... another track - Map Of Problematique was played tonight live on Mtv2 ... this is absolutely amazing ... love it! this album is just gonna be brilliant

.... and here it is, have a listen! ...

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/22059095/Muse_-_Map_Of_Problematique_Live.mp3.html

 

this song is incredible:stunned: wow...I like it even more than the Supermassive black hole.. seems that the album is really going to be fantastic:)

 

Thank you! :kiss:

i'm stunned at how great it is.

 

i loved smbh, but it took me a few listens to love it as much as i do.

map of problematique however was just... amazing on first listen.

I've been listening to it almost all day... and it is still amazing:cool:

can't remember when I've been this anxious about hearing a new album, only one month left:)

you need to remember how good Starlight & Knights of Cydonia are too! they are also fantastic ... :D

that's very true:cool:

 

thanks for reminding me:D

you need to remember how good Starlight & Knights of Cydonia are too! they are also fantastic ... :D

 

haha you are very right nige :kiss: but theres just something about map of problematique that is just sensationalllllll. :heart:

if these 4 songs, Supermassive Black Hole, Starlight, Knights of Cydonia and Map of Problematique, are the standard of the new album then really, and i really mean this, this album would completely outstrip every other album i have ever heard, that includes coldplay, radiohead, other muse albums, placebo, and every other big band you want to throw my way. - potential for utter brilliance.

if these 4 songs' date=' Supermassive Black Hole, Starlight, Knights of Cydonia and Map of Problematique, are the standard of the new album then really, and i really mean this, this album would completely outstrip every other album i have ever heard, that includes coldplay, radiohead, other muse albums, placebo, and every other big band you want to throw my way. - potential for utter brilliance.[/quote']

 

lovely, i agree with you you you youuuuuuuuuuu so much on this.

this anticipation is killing me.

I love map of the problematique! It's by far the best new muse song I've heard so far!! It immediately makes an impact :nice:

I seriously cannot wait to hear the rest of the album!

i know aye, that's what i was saying. the first time i heard it, it was just amazing on first listen. so incredibleee.

muse is an incredible band. Matt's voice is amazing:D i realy love the new song supermassive black hole an i've just downloaded map of the problematique and i like it!! can't wait for the whole album:D

Just listened to Map Of Problematique and all i can say is WOW!!!!!! :stunned: What an amazing song! If this, Supermassive Black Hole, Knights of Cydonia and Starlight are anything to go by then this album is going to be absolutely incredible :stunned:

^ WOW was my first reaction to Map of Problematique and the song is incredible even now when I've been listening to it again and again..

 

it's definitely going to be one amazing album:)

Muse fans: Eat this up ....

 

two+ minutes of bliss is what I call it! :P

 

MUSE : knights of cydonia (live at dundee)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BlBHsypocMc&search=Muse%20-%20Cydonia

 

 

aaan I just now saw this music video....:S

 

Sing for Absolution:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Szfh1kiGjzE&search=Muse%20

Muse fans: Eat this up ....

 

two+ minutes of bliss is what I call it! :P

 

MUSE : knights of cydonia (live at dundee)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BlBHsypocMc&search=Muse%20-%20Cydonia

 

 

aaan I just now saw this music video....:S

 

Sing for Absolution:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Szfh1kiGjzE&search=Muse%20

 

again, wow... Cydonia is great (I really need to see this band live one day:stunned:) and Sing for Absolution is such a powerful song.. and the video, very impressive

 

Thanks for posting the links:)

:wink:

Muse fans: Eat this up ....

 

two+ minutes of bliss is what I call it! :P

 

MUSE : knights of cydonia (live at dundee)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BlBHsypocMc&search=Muse%20-%20Cydonia

 

 

aaan I just now saw this music video....:S

 

Sing for Absolution:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Szfh1kiGjzE&search=Muse%20

thanks soo much:D i have a video of muse singing Hysteria live at Glastonbury. If anyone interested in and if it hadn't been uploaded before i can upload it;)

the album as i see it has potential to blow everything else any band has ever done totally out of this world. i mean that.