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| Muse - Part III. | | Print | |
| Written by krotzyk | |
| Sunday, 01 April 2007 | |
 Muse are a popular Brit Award-winning English rock band formed while at Teignmouth Community College in Teignmouth, Devon in 1992. Their idiosyncratic style is a blend of indie rock, electronica, classical music and heavy metal. The band is famed for its energetic live performances (winning numerous Best Live Act awards) and frontman Matthew Bellamy's eccentric interests in global conspiracy, extraterrestrial life, theology and the apocalypse. Muse consists of Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, and Chris Wolstenholme. Muse have sold over 7 million albums worldwide. As of the release of their fourth album, Morgan Nicholls assists the band during live performances, providing additional keyboards, samples and backing vocals. He previously played bass in a few live performances due to Wolstenholme getting injured. And finally here is the third and the last part closing our Week of Muse. ;)
(2006-present) Black Holes and Revelations After having an extensive break following the lengthy tour, the band returned in August 2005 for recording sessions, though serious recordings started around September. The album was recorded until spring 2006 with a couple of breaks for holidays. The band announced their new LP in May 2006, produced again by Rich Costey and titled Black Holes and Revelations. Shortly afterwards, the album was leaked to the Internet. The finished album was released to the Japanese market on 28 June 2006 with an extra track, "Glorious," that is not present on the rest of the world's releases but was available if pre-ordered from iTunes.[8] The album was released in Europe on July 3, 2006 and in North America on July 11, 2006. It charted at No. 1 in the UK, much of Europe, and Australia and also achieved American success, reaching No. 9 in the Billboard 200 album chart. Black Holes and Revelations was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize, but the prize instead went to Arctic Monkeys. The album did, however, earn a Platinum Europe Award after selling one million copies in the continent, and the band received the 2006 Q Award for Best Live Act. The album's title and themes are the work of the band's fascination with space, Mars and Cydonia, the Book of Revelation and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The artwork is designed by Storm Thorgerson and depicts a landscape of the surface of Mars with four men seated around a table and four miniature horses on it. The first single from the album, "Supermassive Black Hole," was first released as a standalone download on May 9, 2006. Reactions to the new single were diverse as it represented an extreme departure from the style of the band's previous work. The single was officially released online on 12 June, with the CD release taking place on June 19. The CD release contained the B-side "Crying Shame." The second single, "Starlight", was released on January 4, 2007. "Knights of Cydonia" was released as a radio-only single in the US on June 13, 2006 and as a CD/Vinyl single in the UK on November 27, 2006. It charted on the Rock Top 10 and was accompanied by a humourous, six-minute promotional video filmed in Romania. It had been announced that the fourth single from the album would be Invincible, and a release date of April 9 was set. On November 2 2006, Muse won the Best Alternate and Best Live Act awards at the 2006 MTV European Music Video Awards in Copenhagen, and performed their single "Starlight". Justin Timberlake, presenting the awards, said that Muse was the best band there when introducing their performance of "Starlight", and lead singer of The Killers, Brandon Flowers, mentioned Muse while receiving their Best Rock award, claiming it belonged to Muse. The band also recently won the Brit award for best live act in February 2007. However, they didn't win the other two awards they were up for (Best Album and Best British Band), losing both to Arctic Monkeys. The band started performing live again on May 13, 2006 at BBC Radio 1's One Big Weekend, followed by various other promotional TV appearances. The main live tour started just before the release of their album and initially consisted mostly of festival appearances, most notable of which was a headline slot at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. A tour of North America took place from late July to early August 2006, and after the last of the summer festivals a tour of Europe began, including a large arena tour of the UK. The band spent the November and much of December 2006 touring Europe with British band The Noisettes as the supporting act. Since then, the tour has continued in and around Australia and Southeast Asia, and more dates around the world have been published until July 2007. The band has stated that they would be touring probably until the end of summer. Confirmed major performances include the headlining spot at the Isle of Wight Festival on June 9, and a 90,000-capacity gig at the newly-rebuilt Wembley Stadium on June 16, 2007. The Wembley concert sold out quickly, prompting the addition of an extra show for June 17. After The Brit Awards the band announced that they were asked to play at one of the Live Earth concerts, likely to happen at Wembley Stadium on July 7, 2007. They are also confirmed to play the Oxegen festival in Ireland on the same day. Muse also played at the Big Day Out 07 (NZ & Aus) alongside headlining band Tool. Links muse.mu- Official Website microcuts.net- Unofficial Fan Site muselive.com - Unofficial Fan Site musesyndrome.com- Unofficial Fan Site Music Videos Knights of Cydonia Starlight Hysteria Did you enjoy this article? Please bookmark it onto:                  |
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