Muse take a trip to the beach in "Supremacy"

If the snow and cold weather has you down, take a trip to the beach with Muse in today's video for their soon-to-be-released single, "Supremacy," the lead single from English alternative rock band's most recent dystrophy-worthy sixth studio album, "The 2nd Law," which has already sold 1.5 million copies worldwide.
Muse open their latest album with "Supremacy," reportedly written for the latest James Bond film "Skyfall" but was rejected in favor of Adele's "Skyfall" theme, in which they foresee the collapse of industrial civilization. The track is a bit of stately, epic stadium rock which starts off slow and gradually builds to squealing guitars, symphony strings, lead singer Matt Bellamy's almost-operatic vocals and headbanging mayhem with iron-fisted guitar-drums interplay that could keep the trains running on time.

Spiraling swamp blues of the track builds to a climax of orchestral hysteria as Bellamy orates a terrifying scene of mankind losing its supremacy over the Earth as the seas have risen up and energy shortages cause global desperation. A pivot away from Muse's previous material, the focus on subtle sonic textures in "Supremacy" marks a new, more nuanced direction for the Brit pomp rockers.
The video is appropriately gonzo. Featuring a crew of face-painted black-metal lovers hanging out, surfing, skating, biking while hoisting flaming swords and even hosting a sunset wedding and having a whale of a time in Los Angeles, as the band jam out on a boat and bashes out the monstrous prog rock epic against a backdrop of Goth surfers. It just doesn't match the Bond theme-like track it's paired with. The only thing the song and the video have in common is they're just awesome.

Muse showcases their live footage in "Follow Me"

English alternative rock band Muse have unleashed a brand new tour video for heavy-handed anthem, "Follow Me," the third single from their sixth studio effort, "The 2nd Law." Over the past decade, Muse, the self-serious English trio have emerged as one of the UK's biggest musical exports and throughout their career, it's always been clear that Muse aren't satisfied to just do the same thing over and over again.
Their latest "The 2nd Law" is no exception, and British mega-rockers continue to shake things up, diving deeper into the electronic rabbit hole as they experiment. While adding a dollop of reverb to "Follow Me" enhances the track's doom-sodden message of clinging to strength from a dark place. In the bronze position, the consolatory "Follow Me" piles on the rave dynamics and dubstep nods in another bow to the maximalist productions of the chart mainstream.
"Follow Me" contains a bit more electronic dance like synth tracks and influences from dubstep, and the instrumental elements from band's previous two studio albums. The song is about "having a baby and all that." Muse lead vocalist Matt Bellamy wrote this song about his baby son, Bingham, after his fiancée, actress Kate Hudson, gave birth to the child on July 9. The ode to fatherhood kicks off with a sample of Bingham's heartbeat, which Bellamy recorded on an iPhone just before he was born. "Follow Me" is 'Map Of The Problematique' reimagined as a love song with dubstep wobbles, and their excursions into dubstep and dance music on "Follow Me" feel more like remixes than original songs.
Consisting of live footage from Muse's smoky, multi-colored stage show, the clip gets off to a slow start, as Bellamy ambles through bland imagery before the three-piece blasts off into its patented hybrid of electronic blips and arena rock. The live concert setting amongst a laser light show and an overly enthusiastic crowd helps to capture the energy of the electro-driven song, which has techno-tinged choruses and even a couple of dubstep-alluding synth dives. The crowds soon follow suit, pulsating from the Sheer Importance of the song.

Muse set a fractured romance in "Madness"

After the mostly-ridiculed Queen-inspired bombast of their Summer Olympics anthem "Survival," Muse return with the video for their new dubstep-inflected follow-up single, "Madness," the second single from the British alt-rockers' upcoming sixth studio album "The 2nd Law," has been slated October 2nd as the North American release date.
This time, though, Muse swap bombastic bass brutality for wubby subtleties as frontman Matthew Bellamy croons over the surprisingly gentle pop track. "Madness" impresses with a more restrained electronic arrangement. Some might wonder if Muse have in fact gone mad based on the opening few seconds. It highlights the U.K. band's much ballyhooed new dubstep sound, both futuristic and retro, with whirring electronics balanced by small doses of Queen-like operatic harmonies, and an icy synth groove reminiscent of Depeche Mode.
Bellamy wrote the song with only a synthesizer and a drum machine as a personal reflection after having an argument with his girlfriend Kate Hudson. He has called the song "probably my favorite song that I've ever written." The unusual blend of sounds works far better than it probably should. With calm, languid and sweet, the track takes its time to make its point, but once it does, it's as enjoyable as Muse's other airy ballads. NME described the song as "taking the defining noise of 'base music' and using it to create slinky, soft rock sex music."
The song is much more mellow than the group's biggest arena-sized hits, and the ambitious video is suitably subdued even when the riot cops break out the fire hoses. The Anthony Mandler-directed clip sets a fractured romance against the backdrop of violence. As the electronic tune squiggles along, a young couple meet on a neon-lit subway, only to have a riot break out. The gorgeous woman and tatted-up bloke skirt and play it pretty cool until they finally consummate their flirtation with a passionate kiss. Love is powerful and sometimes fleeting. In other words its' typical Muse madness.

Muse Shows Olympic Spirit In "Survival" Video

The British atmospheric powerful rock trio Muse has been chosen to represent the UK at the upcoming London Summer Olympics with their latest track "Survival," the lead single from the English alternative rock band's sixth studio album, "The 2nd Law," is scheduled to be released on September 17th. With the games scheduled to kick off on July 27, audiences can now expect this thundering rock anthem to play throughout the Olympics.
"Survival" gradually emerges as another of Muse's chorus-less, build-to-a-cataclysmic-climax mood pieces. The lyrics match this competitive mentality, "Survival" certainly gives off an enormous vibe. It feels like a classic rock jam that Queen or ELO would've crafted, rife with strings, pianos, guitars and choir vocals. Appropriately, it's comprised entirely of various athletic feats from past Olympic games. The group says that the song is "about total conviction and pure determination to win."
That goes a long way toward explaining why Muse don't appear at all in the just-revealed video for "Survival," which instead features a thrilling montage of past Olympic glory and defeat. Because the Olympics area all about inclusion and global unity, the nearly four-minute clip makes sure to include all the sports that will be featured. "Survival" might be amongst the most ear-scorchingly, arse-burstingly, aneurysm-inducingly brilliant songs in Muse's canon, and it's clear that Muse have the spirit of the Olympics in mind.
The clip opens with a quick rewind through some of the Games' biggest moments back from 2012 to 1896, the birth of the modern games, which rolls out over triumphant moments from the past century-plus of competition. As frontman Matthew Bellamy begins his Queen-like call to athletic greatness we see a montage of sportsmen and women staring with intensity and raising their arms in victory. In the middle the Olympic credo, "Faster, Higher, Stronger" flashes across the screen as the song builds to a chorus-assisted crescendo. It's as insanely overblown as the Olympics themselves.

Muse's Eclipse Video For "Neutron Star Collision"

Finally, the "Twilight" universe's favorite band is back, as if Stephenie Meyer and the creative minds behind the big-screen vampire franchise would have it any other way. The English alternative rock band Muse is making it three-for-three when it comes to the vampire movie soundtracks, contributing the lead single "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)" off the upcoming third film of "The Twilight Saga, Eclipse." And now they've premiered the brand new video on MTV for the song.
The song was first announced on Stephenie Meyer's official website. BBC Radio 1 aired the full song on Monday, May 17 during Zane Lowe's show, accompanied by an interview with band's lead vocals Matt Bellamy, who explained that the song was written after he split with his long-term girlfriend at the end of 2009, and was based on his feelings at the beginning of their relationship. While Muse featured on the Twilight and New Moon soundtracks previously (with "Supermassive Black Hole" in Twilight and a special remix of "I Belong to You" in New Moon), this marks the second time the band has produced the lead single for a movie.
Their sound is a blend of alternative rock, classical music, electronica, metal, spanish guitars, and progressive rock. Usually they use the bass line as the driving force, often with the guitar providing only an extra layer to the song rather than carrying the melody, the bass has distortion and other effects applied to it to achieve a greater weight, allowing the guitar to digress from the main tune and play higher notes. Another peculiarity is Muse's piano style in many of their songs; their music has been inspired by the works of Romantic pianist-composers such as Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Liszt, and has thus resulted in a fusion of Romantic style with modern rock.
If there's one piece that's usually been lacking in the Muse puzzle, it's been a truly memorable video. They've obviously got plenty of bucks to spend on such promos, and the clips usually look good. In Anthony Mandler directed new video, the band plays in front of oversize screens, colored lights glow and mix around them and snippets of Edward, Bella and Jacob flash across the screen. The video doesn't show us a ton of fresh footage, but we do get a sense of story elements set to the tune of a brooding, epic rock song. The 'Eclipse' soundtrack album is due on June 8 and the movie hits theaters on June 30.