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Teignmouth, England, United Kingdom (1994 – present)

Muse are an 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 1994 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 , music, , , spanish guitars, and . 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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  • Pk_Henry

    Best Queen cover band ever.

    7 hours ago Reply

  • JoseDRengifo

    VV Of course I did. When I talk about something, I'm showing my opinion. Child logic.

    yesterday evening Reply

  • stathistate

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NKXTGiIkSk

    yesterday evening Reply

  • livesuffer-die

    you said: " It's about the video as a concept: it's awful." you dont say that as your opinion.

    yesterday evening Reply

  • Cat_MK

    Muze

    yesterday evening Reply

  • MorticiaVouk

    TWITTER: Muse are testing out their pyro at the Ricoh Stadium. Twitter has exploded thinking the stadium is on fire. :D

    Yesterday 9:58pm Reply

  • GhilBarros

    Invincible <3

    Yesterday 9:26pm Reply

  • JoseDRengifo

    VV I think the Panic Station video is awful, but I know it's just my opinion. I never said everyone should hate it.

    20 May 7:16pm Reply

  • livesuffer-die

    @JoseDRengifo OK then, lets consider it a concept, if thats what you want. So what? Concept means idea, so if you think it's awful someone else can come and say "Hey, i like this". Just because you don't like it doesn't mean its bad. Even though it really is ridiculous, you're just one out of the million musers over the world, and some of them might even like T2L, just so you know.

    20 May 6:52pm Reply

  • peys032

    The Making of: The 2nd Law

    20 May 2:35pm Reply

  • Meloman_san

    Resistance <3

    20 May 11:57am Reply

  • JoseDRengifo

    V You said "the video wasn't supposed to be meaningful". That is a concept.

    20 May 2:28am Reply

  • livesuffer-die

    @JoseDRengifo Alrighty then. You're free to try and find out the meaning of winking at asian girls and a dinosaur dancing, but just don't expect such "quest" to result in a decent result

    20 May 12:04am Reply

  • Nick14Orlov

    Escape still the best song

    19 May 9:53pm Reply

  • Cat_MK

    Excuse me you all can end your dumb talk, United States of Eurasia, Butterflies and Hurricanes, and The Samuel Barber Adagio were also played during rehearsals...I think i need medical help omg please god make it happen (if they play samuel barber i'm going to cry like a baby)

    19 May 9:36pm Reply

  • JoseDRengifo

    V Muse have always made amazing videos. Some of them are obviously meaningful (Undisclosed Desires, for example), but they are good, anyway. Obviously there is a concept on this one (there is always a concept), even though they didn't give a shit, and the result isn't good. That's my point.

    19 May 9:02pm Reply

  • livesuffer-die

    i agree with ThomElsenaar, it is funny indeed. The video wasn't supposed to be meaningful IMO, they were more like "lol were in tokyo lets record ourselves fucking shit up #swag"

    19 May 8:34pm Reply

  • Cat_MK

    there's no concept it's just muse being careless and finally not giving any fucks , i'm all for it.

    19 May 6:52pm Reply

  • ThomElsenaar

    I think it's a funny video.

    19 May 6:24pm Reply

  • JoseDRengifo

    VV It's not about the gay thing. It's about the video as a concept: it's awful.

    19 May 5:42pm Reply
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