Yeah, ‘heavy’ is a completely subjective term in this context. Muse’s staple arpeggiated synths from the past, weaved in at the right moment, managed to enhance their dirty three-piece riffing sound and beefed things up a bit by providing contrast with the gritty guitar and bass sound. Their current stacking of layers doesn’t manage to recreate that same feeling, because it gets too muffled and it just sort of kneads it all together, taking away from the ‘heaviness’ rather than emphasizing it through contrasting sounds. It’s like making your ‘freshest salad yet’ by adding pomegranate, feta and cucumber and then putting it in a blender. Doesn’t work that way.

I'm never sure what to do with this. Engaging seems futile, as no one can argue with an infinite amount of fragmented snippets of out of context nonsense, complete fantasies, lies and a sprinkling of truth and real societal concerns. Pointing out the apparent disfunction in an online nonsense-victim's mind's workings would be ill-advised and wrong of me to do, as I don't have the background and moral authority to diagnose mental illnesses. But when a recent survey suggests that 23% of Americans believe that U.S. institutions are “controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles” who traffic children for sex, one can't sit idly by and ignore this ever-expanding dangerous communal delusion either.

Lol. You’re a parody account, right?

Oh my, we've got a live one.

If it’s not a similar shitshow then listening to the full album will be the same jarring inconsistent experience as listening the OOS anniversary remiXX. I’m not sure if inconsistency with the occasional standout is better than consistent shittiness.

This means we need CoD back.

No, message ME if you have a spare ticket

I was for a couple of decades, but now I'm back.

My browser automatically refreshed and I've got 10.000 in front of me now (which is the maximum, it could be a million.)

Now they're just toying with you. I've been following the discussions on Reddit about the US shows. Tickets are selling for $2000 there through Ticketmaster's exploitative Platinum Pricing feature.

I thought these were all non-transferrable named tickets that are only released a few hours before the show?

I'm just reading that the online payment system of my bank is down this morning, so I guess I should just give up. Only 7000 left in front of me...

I had to do it on both my computer and my phone, weird. Anyway, it set me back 2200 spots in line, apparently. Not that it matters... The lame thing is, I literally live across from Carre. I can see it out of my window, this unseizable fort of tickets. So close and yet so far away.

Same, only I've got 7700 people on front of me. I think it literally came down to who clicked through the Google Captcha the fastest.

I hope/assume you get to use ions of your friends three tix! If so, congrats! It was, as I suspected, a crapshoot, luck was required in the end.

Is that when the general tix go on sale (if there are any left?). I thought I read that somewhere, but now I can't find it anymore. EDIT: Never mind, found it...

So what do we think? Cool exclusive benefit for the fans, or tricking fans into buying a box set with little guarantee of reward? I’m not saying this kind of practice is exploitative since I know these days bands struggle to make money from album sales, so they have to figure something else out, but the cynic in me wants to know: Do they want to play small venues and fund it through these pre-sale schemes? Or are the smaller venues a scheme to sell more albums? I’m worried it’s the latter. Either way, these shows can be sure to be packed with die-hard fans (of the kind that have some extra cash to spare) who will be super happy to be there, which should make for a great show and crowd.

Capacity is 1700 I think. Curious if anyone on here managed to get tix for this show? Haven’t seen anyone post about Amsterdam success.

With such small venues it’s essentially a lottery. I forget what it was for now, but I’ve tried to get tix for a different show in the past that uses the same waitlist system as the Amsterdam show, and it crashed at checkout that time as well. Just have to be lucky I guess, and I never am with these things. Enjoy!

Could be a bug then I suppose. This may turn into a bit of a crapshoot.

In the description below the code, does it only talk about intimate American shows? Mine does…

No idea…

Crap. I just realized the membership area considers me an American, I wonder if my code will work with the presale for European shows.

Apparently Will was en route to the Isle of Wight already. I guess that answers the question if Will is just Murph in a mask.

It’s a good read, a relief actually, that whole interview. Also validating to see the interviewer bring up some of the concerns I’ve been having. Now someone just needs to ask him about Marylin Manson’s intellectual property and the world is in balance again. It’s also great to see the exploding minds of a certain faction of Muse’s Facebook following in the comments when they shared this article. Poor souls went straight from “I love this band for standing up to the plandemic/woke oppression/WEF/Ministry of Truth” to “Stick to music and stay away from politics.” Love it!