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Teignmouth, England, United Kingdom (1990 – present)
Muse is a alternative rock band from Teignmouth, England, United Kingdom. The band consists of Matthew Bellamy on lead vocals, piano, keyboard and guitar, Chris Wolstenholme on backing vocals and bass guitar, and Dominic Howard on drums and percussion.
They have been friends since their formation in early 1990 and changed band names a number of times (such as Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls) before adopting the name Muse. Since the release of their fourth album, Morgan Nicholls has also appeared with the band at live performances to provide keyboards, samples/synth, and backing vocals.
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.
The band is known for their energetic live performances and front man Matthew Bellamy’s eccentric and avid interests in global conspiracy, extraterrestrial life, theology and the apocalypse (as much as in Space and theoretical physics). Their lyrical themes involve madcap conspiracy theory, revolutionary rabble-rousing, weird stuff about aliens (or Zetas, if you please), religions and other such classic Muse concerns.
They have been friends since their formation in early 1990 and changed band names a number of times (such as Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls) before adopting the name Muse. Since the release of their fourth album, Morgan Nicholls has also appeared with the band at live performances to provide keyboards, samples/synth, and backing vocals.
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.
The band is known for their energetic live performances and front man Matthew Bellamy’s eccentric and avid interests in global conspiracy, extraterrestrial life, theology and the apocalypse (as much as in Space and theoretical physics). Their lyrical themes involve madcap conspiracy theory, revolutionary rabble-rousing, weird stuff about aliens (or Zetas, if you please), religions and other such classic Muse concerns.
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Absolution
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Black Holes and Revelations
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Origin Of Symmetry
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Showbiz
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lehitalodance wrote:
Brazil wants MUSE ♥____♥ [2]
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Skitthay wrote:
Brazil wants MUSE ♥____♥
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MCR_17 wrote:
Uprising <333
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ElectricGod wrote:
their new album is pretty good, united states of eurasia and the exogenesis symphonies are outstanding and uprising is pretty good but the other songs are blah, especially that one thats on the new twilight soundtrack, which all the fangirls will obsess over now... :(
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DynatiaCydonia wrote:
We need to harass them on Twitter for Citizen Erased, this is how we've got MK Ultra added in the setlist.
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Scunderlick wrote:
@milann89 You forgot Citizen Erased, they should change Feeling Good for it.
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EloyMadrid wrote:
they have played mape of the problematique in madrid just some hours ago and its been AMAZING!!
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alkimo wrote:
this new album is real great, different, but awesome
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Mushiki wrote:
tickets for wembleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!!!!! <3
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MBLark wrote:
http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Youre-Not-Cool-Just-Because-You-Only-Like-Their-Old-Stuff/223141454174?ref=mf
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milann89 wrote:
I like Feeling Good, but don't understand why is such a vital part of the setlist. Why not change it to Citizen Erased, Bliss, Citizen Erased or even I Belong To You (it seems fans don't hate it as much as I expected). Or Citizen Erased.
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SNAKE_ADRIAN wrote:
GOOD BAND =D
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emmiy wrote:
yeah. poor madrid (and others). also, to be honest, i don't really like feeling good, i'm glad they didn't play it in finland
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truthemulator wrote:
"Muse will probably be comparable to legends like "the beatles" and such in the future. " Now this type of fantasy is insufferable
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milann89 wrote:
Now in Madrid and on some previous gigs. That's just plain stupid.
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emmiy wrote:
where didn't they play MOTP? because that just sucks, for real.
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milann89 wrote:
Back to some constructive topics. Why the hell aren't they playing Map of the Problematique on every gig? Yeah, it's a good thing they play Feeling Good, who gives a damn if they don't play one of their best songs. -.-
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Maltag wrote:
oh no peopel liek the same thing as us?!?!?! fagort s
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Grimmie wrote:
It's sort of exasperating that the Muse shoutbox has shifted away from Radiohead taunts and moved to Twilight taunts. Why can't we all just.. Get along?
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thic47 wrote:
:O
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News
MAP OF THE PROBLEMATIQUE - AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD NOW!
18 Jun 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/muse
Following two awesome performances at Wembley Stadium last weekend, Muse have released Map Of The Problematique as a digital only single, including an exclusive version recorded live at Wembley over t. …
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