After many listens, the dark forest is now my top Muse song of all time. I never thought one of their songs would top Citizen. The buildup is grand and ominous and the payout is completely bizarre, i love their weird stuff like micro cuts, recess, shrinking universe, dead star and most of their B sides. The greek chorus is legendary and somehow more transcendent than the Citizen outro. Doms drumming is superior and clean. Citizen has its moments like the guitar solo, but nothing near as otherworldly as this. very well done.

Tbh right out of the gate I didn’t praise the sh*t out of it like everyone else here seemingly did. But I still liked it. On release day I would’ve given it a 7/10. But right now it’s somewhere around a 5/10 and that’s if I’m being generous.

The album is okay, it’s enjoyable enough, and I still think it has 2 great songs and 4-5 more decent ones. But as an album it just screams “this band is dead”. The two songs that I did love on this album - one’s an obvious ripoff of Stockholm Syndrome (albeit a very good one) and the other is a joke song that also sounds a little bit like a rip off of their earlier work. (yeah it’s WAFF. It’s amazing, but it is a joke song and it is reminiscent of KoC in some parts).

And the decent songs, well, I’m just sick of muse being just decent. Compliance is okay, but they could’ve taken that bassline and done something far more interesting with it. Verona is cute but there really isn’t much too it and the lyrics are only good relatively to new muse.

And some songs have potential but some parts just ruin them. Won’t stand down, for example, has a great riff and I love that it’s heavy and has a metal core sound. But the over-produced screamed vocals just sound weird, and the verses and chorus are corny as fuck. And euphoria has a great opening riff, but then Matt goes for what is an exact copy of the vocals in TIRO (I’m pretty sure that if the song was made by another band muse would probably sue them for that), and the chorus is just boring.

And then there are the really bad songs like liberation and WOTP that just beg the question of how do people not realize that these are repackaged older muse songs? There’s nothing original about them and it’s not like the improved on the original songs.

In conclusion, this album is not nearly as good as I first thought it was, and I won’t be surprised if just like drones before it it’ll be remembered for one or two songs and that’s it. And rightfully so, because so many of these songs are just meh compared to other albums. I can’t believe that it got to it but I actually think I’m starting to prefer ST over this one.

Anyway that was my rant, bring those downvotes at me guys :)

After the release of The Wow Signal, I relistened to all of Muse's albums, and I had in my mind that the worst album was the Simulation Theory, but after listening to everything again, in my opinion Will of the People is the worst by far. What do you think?

…it came around twice on my playlist at the gym today and there is something about it. 🤷‍♂️ … Does anyone know what I mean?

It’s not in the same universe as Hexagons or Cryogen and it’s quite lame in many respects, yet you don’t want to skip it.

This is a complaint from a fan who's been loyal to this band for 16 years. As some of you may know by now, A 22 years old girl named Mahsa Amini was killed by morality police in Iran and caused an outrage among people leading to protests all across the country. They want to change the regime that suppressed them for 43 years and made their life hard.

Now tell me why our favorite band always sings about "Revolution" and won't even bother to make a statement to condemn this violence against women of Iran. This morning Roger Waters of Pink Floyd shared a video to show empathy. But what about Matt Bellamy? I guess he just writes music about a revolution to sell more records and sellout shows. Clearly, he doesn't believe in the "Will of the People" and I can't relate with a band that shows no respect for my people. Not in 2009, Nor in 2019 the government killed 1500 people in just 3 days! Now they cut off our internet and they're killing us.

Muse became what they loathed and screamed it on "Showbiz". Please be our voice and tell the world that Iran's regime is killing young people.

Update: Since y'all are looking the way and acting like "raising awareness" is not their job, Please watch these videos from Roger Waters and Yungblud and stop this neverending support for your band when they're standing on the wrong side by being silent! And that Pitchfork review was damn right!

https://twitter.com/rogerwaters/status/1574239819923865600

https://twitter.com/yungblud/status/1574022845054713856

Hot take: Cryogen is the least interesting song on The Wow! Signal album.

I'm ready for a flood of downvotes and I'm telling you this is not rage bait!

I love Cryogen don't get me wrong but all other songs in that album are just better.

That's all! I'll see myself out 😅

I mean, they're both very good, but there's so much better stuff by Muse, and I just think it's a real shame that those are the 2 biggest.

Couldn't find any news about it. Is there an occasion?

The usual: Muse fucking killed it tonight. They're still incredible to experience live and still sound good as fuck.

The negatives: Matt's gotta let go of the jacket and glasses. That whole get-up cheapens the music. It was a bit off putting seeing them perform Take A Bow with the goofy glasses on. It's disrespectful to the art.

Also, why the fuck are the boys matching? 😭 It legit looks like mom shopped for clothes at one store and dressed them all up for their first day of school. That was cheesy as hell.

The surprise: I enjoyed the Hollywood Bowl a lot more than I expected. I've never been a fan of the venue so I went in with low expectations, but Muse blew me away. And I do think this is attributable to Muse exclusively, and has nothing really to do with the venue. The fireworks at the end, especially for Take A Bow, were chef's kiss.

After all the "special" and "limited edition" they made (they released 24 or 25 items for this album including Vinyls, CDs and the cassette), after I got nothing helping me for the presale of the tickets (EDIT: I mean that it would have been nice to have something from purchasing somrthing) for their show, which I gave up and won't go, I decided to ask for the refund of the articles I bought 3 months ago.

I am sorry but this album, TO ME, is just a big marketing album, I used to love Muse since years but I abandoned them...

If you can understand this and not insult me would be a nice thing.

I don’t get the hate, sure, lyrics ain’t sh*t but WSD, KOBK, Compliance and WAFF are some of their best songs, the worst track in my opinion is liberation which I’d say is a 5/10 song.

Trying to listen to Drones front to back in the way I did with previous albums, it felt stilted, awkward, and insincere, if I'm being honest. But everything they've written since then has really regained their perfect balance between pop and metal. Every time I listen to a sick riff in Wow! Signal, I thank* Drones for putting in the legwork :D

So I have always been a pretty mainstream fan. Because of that I finally decided to go through the whole discography and rank them. I’m not a heavy critic it’s genuinely just based on what I liked more. I don’t really go on this sub so I don’t really know the general consensus so I’d love to hear your opinions.

I ranked the songs for each album along with a ranking of the albums. Lmk what you all think because I know there are some hot takes on here.

Our lord and saviour Messier55 has striked again. For reference, the binary in the title translates to "Burn Bright". Looks like a teaser for Hexagons being the next single release.

What hot takes do you guys have about muse? I only have a few that I will now list in order of increasing heat

1. Muse's live songs sound better than the studio versions

2. Muse's first 3 albums are their best

3. Undisclosed Desires is Muse's most overrated pop song

4. Futurism has the best bassline of any Muse song

5. Knights of Cydonia is the worst song on BHAR

6. The 2nd Law is their worst and most forgettable album

7. Showbiz is better than OOS

8. Simulation Theory is better than T2L and WOTP

9. Panic Station is their worst song

If you happen to love something that I hate, I am not hating on your taste! Everybody is entitled to their own views, and that's what's amazing, you do you!

This song was one of the highlights of the album for me, with its catchy prince-like chorus stuck in my head for days. Yet I see critics hate on this song with the only argument that the guitar riff sounds too "cheesy" and that it sounds like it came from WOTP. First of all the the riff makes up maybe 20 percent or less of the song, and this song sounds nothing remotely close to anything on WOTP. Honesty I even find that the riff goes pretty hard so idk whats with the hate.

You probably have seen a post like this a billion times but i wanted to share my possible hot take so here we go

Muse didn't make a really good album after the resistance

I can see the downvotes, maybe not