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    2015.09.28 - AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong

    in Gigs

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    It's 10am now and I still can't find anything, nor can anyone else I know of...

    This post says it may have been delayed? But then why not announce anything?

     

    Hope this gets cleared out soon.

    also presale code can be found in the members section iirc.

    Muse in March 31 issue of Q

    in Muse In the Media

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    hello. long time no see. :$

     

     

    PLUG IN BABY

    New Album Exclusive!

     

    MUSE talk exclusively to Q about their back-to-basics approach for new album Drones.

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    YOU know that the universe is finite when Muse start talking about boundaries. The past 10 years have been a period of expansion and experimentation for the trio, a time in which they have redefined what it means to be a modern stadium rock band. Their live shows have included a giant robot on wheels, a stage designed to resemble the HAARP ionospheric research station in Alaska and a UFO with acrobats hanging off it – but when it came to making Drones, their forthcoming seventh studio album, they were struck by a very un-Muse thought: is it time to rein it in a bit? Their last record, 2012’s The 2nd Law, featured electronic power ballads and surging dubstep-influenced instrumentals, but Drones is as close to a classic back-to-basics rock album as Muse get.

     

    “I loved The 2nd Law, but it was the first time we actually realised, ‘This is too far,’” frontman Matt Bellamy tells Q, sitting in a control room at Air Studios in North London. They have commandeered most of the building: long-term collaborator Rich Costey is in a studio upstairs mixing the album, drummer Dom Howard is in another overseeing radio-edits, while they have been using one of the live rooms as a rehearsal space for an upcoming UK tour. It’s the day before they unveil the first song from Drones, an old-school rock racket called Psycho that re-appropriates a thumping riff that’s been cropping up in their live show for years. “That riff is from 1999,” says Bellamy. “Dom was always saying, ‘Turn that into a song!’ and I was always like, ‘Nah, it’s too redneck, dude.’”

     

    An urge to reconnect with their former selves prompted Bellamy’s change of opinion and much of the record is a return to what the singer describes as “three-piece heavy rock”. “It was good for us being in a room together to remind ourselves that it isn’t always about putting your head in a laptop or a synth to try and find something new, ” says Bellamy. “Sometimes three musicians in a room can find something new. We wanted to bring this album back a bit towards that.”

     

    There are two big nods to the past on Drones: as well as Psycho’s dusted-off riff, a raucous anthem called The Handler features a middle-section that harks back to the title track from their 1999 debut, Showbiz. “The lyrics are almost a question-and-answer with that song,” says Bellamy.

     

    After bassist Chris Wolstenholm contributed two songs to The 2nd Law, Bellamy resumed full control of songwriting duties. He had stuff to get off his chest: “I went very internal, very into my paranoias and weird feelings and life experiences. It was quite personal,” the singer says.

     

    He has projected these themes into the band’s first fully-formed concept album – the Drones of the title refers to when someone in a vulnerable state can be manipulated and indoctrinated. It’s not hard to make the connection between his split from fiancée Kate Hudson last year and the opening track Dead Inside, a swaggering, angry electro-ballad. It’s a song about “a relationship ending and a person becoming dead inside themselves” says Bellamy. “There’s not a lot of love on this album.”

     

    Recorded at The Warehouse in Vancouver between October and January, Drones was co-produced with Robert “Mutt” Lange, the man behind AC/DC’s Back In Black. After self-producing their last two albums, Muse felt ready for some outside influence. “You can get overly caught up in your own way of doing things,” says Bellamy, “and it’s hard for me, at times, to take input from other people. He was one of those people I knew I would listen to.”

     

    Of course, the back-to-basics approach that Bellamy talks about is relative. One of his favourite songs from the new album is a track called The Globalist that’s 10 minutes long. “The first half sounds like something from a film, then it goes to a middle section that’s metal then the outro is a big piano ballad,” he enthuses. This is how to strip things down, Muse-style. Buckle up.

     

    PMT 53: Only a violated amp is a good amp

    in Other Muse Topics

    Posted

    I'm doing a practice sketch of his eye as we speak; I've never noticed how hooded his eyelid is, it's making it really hard :facepalm:

    You're right about him being a nightmare to draw! The worst things are probably his lips, his eyes, and his cheekbones. It'll be a good challenge though :happy:

     

    I've drawn Matt's face so often that I've kinda forgotten how to draw other people. :LOL: But like his face is wonky but it still has the same basic structure as any other face. In fact I'd say in a way it's a bit easier than other faces, because you can really exaggerate his features and have it still look like him because they're a bit wonky.

     

    Can't wait to see it!! :D

     

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    PMT 53: Only a violated amp is a good amp

    in Other Muse Topics

    Posted

    So, I've got an art project for which I'm doing a pencil and possibly charcoal portrait of Matt, so; does anyone have a picture of just his face, high quality, not smiling?

    I need to make him look kinda vunerable and non-rockstar-ish, because it's going to be accompanied by a painting of him looking all bad-ass on stage.

    Thanks :happy:

     

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