![]() But I think you’re right in saying there was an element of missing the energy of playing together as a band after being separated from each other. So a new song like “Kill or Be Killed” - the last time we went down that kind of heavy route, like that heavy, was “Stockholm Syndrome,” which is on our third album. We did a bit of a review of everything that we’ve done up to date and wanted to focus on the parts that we felt like we hadn’t improved upon for a long time, which meant we ended up looking back at some of the older stuff. Yeah, it’s definitely more guitar-oriented. Did you miss that, or maybe think the fans missed it? With this one, a heavy guitar sound returns on quite a few numbers. Muse’s last album, “Simulation Theory,” felt much more electronic, which fit in with the overall concept you had for that album. He also touched on the state of rock, Rage Against the Machine, Stephen King, geothermal energy, why he’s drawn to rather than repelled by his adopted America’s political divide, and whether we are all really (as the climax of the new album would have it) “fucking fucked.” Along the way he spilled the beans on the band’s touring plans, which, besides a few already-revealed stops in small theaters this fall, will bloom into the expected arena tour next spring. Bellamy is a student of fantastical pop culture, so it makes sense that he’s surrounded by a Lynchian throwback space - even if the rock arias he creates here passionately reach for the sky, rather than feeling like they’re stuck in an interdimensional waiting room.īellamy sat down with Variety to talk about Muse’s seventh album, “Will of the People,” which comes out this weekend. “Do you remember the Red Room? We’re sitting in it, basically,” he says, and sure enough, here in the front room of his studio, there is the black-and-white zig-zag flooring, the wrap-around red drapes, the minimalist lamp, the vaguely retro sitting chair…. ![]() “I don’t know if you remember the TV show ‘Twin Peaks,’” Bellamy inquires. For one thing, there’s the fact that it’s in an unmarked former storefront on a heavily trafficked urban street, so on the other side of the one-way glass, pedestrians are constantly passing by, unaware that they’re about two yards away from a rock star coming up with new songs to potentially join “Madness” or ”Uprising” guy as new KROQ-driven earworms in their heads.īut apart from the street scene outside practically brushing up against his console, there’s something else about the place… Stepping into Muse frontman Matt Bellamy’s Los Angeles studio is immediately surreal, on a couple of different fronts. ![]()
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