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“Then they go on and become vulnerable to these dark, oppressive forces, which are more than happy to take advantage of people like that.” After furious dialogue from a drill sergeant (“your ass belongs to me now!”), the album gets even darker with “Psycho,” “Mercy” and “Reapers.” “They’re about being overcome by these oppressive forces,” says Bellamy.
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The LP kicks off with “Dead Inside.” “It’s about someone having something bad happen to them, but they choose not to feel it but become dead inside,” Bellamy explains. But from reading the book, you find out that most mornings he wakes up, has a breakfast and then goes down to the war room and makes what they call ‘kill decisions.’ He makes that decision based on a long chain of intelligence people who, as we all know, can be very unreliable.” I always perceived Obama as an all-around likable guy. “I didn’t know how prolific drone usage has been. Bellamy first got the idea about two years ago when he read the book Predators: The CIA’s Drone War on al Qaeda by Dartmouth professor Brian Glyn Williams. Essentially, you’re already in a soundscape that’s very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments.”Ī concept about the dehumanizing aspects of drone technology is, however, fresh territory for a rock band. “The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. “As soon as you pick up a guitar you’re up against the legends of rock,” says Bellamy. They cheated a bit by adding pianos and synths to a few songs, but they mostly stuck to their pledge of using just guitar, bass and drums. “We all went there and had nothing to do but live and breathe the album.” Muse recorded their last three albums within a short driving distance of their families, but this time around they opted to travel to Vancouver and work at Warehouse Studios. He is the kind of person to get into the mind of the artist and whatever the artist wants.” “I figured that Mutt Lange would be more focused on, ‘What’s the single? What’s going to be the big hit?,'” the singer says. Much to their surprise, Lange was incredibly enthused about the project.
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You feel like you’re in the presence of some sort of guru or spiritual outsider.” “He has the air of a person that has not lived in the constraints of normal society or life for a very long time. “He’s a very eccentric person, very laid back,” says Bellamy. He almost never grants interviews and has rarely even been photographed. The group flew out to Switzerland to meet Lange, who remains one of the most mysterious figures in rock. “I didn’t want us to be turned into a kind of Top 40 act.” “Before I met him I wasn’t sure,” Bellamy says. “So we knew we had to find someone to sit in the control room and handle most of the production side.” Their management team of Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch suggested Robert “Mutt” Lange, best known for producing AC/DC’s Back in Black and Def Leppard’s Hysteria. “We wanted to spend our time in the live room, being performers,” says Bellamy. Muse produced their last two albums themselves, but this time around they decided to bring in an outsider. “As I look back at the last three albums, each one had progressively less and less songs that we could play live.”Ĭhasteness, Soda Pop, and Show Tunes: The Lost Story of the Young Americans and the Choircore Movement “We probably spent more time in the control room, fiddling with knobs and synths and computers and drum machines than actually playing together as a band,” he says. “Our intention was to go back to how we made music in the early stages of our career,” says Muse frontman Matt Bellamy, “when we were more like a standard three-piece rock band with guitar, bass and drums.”īellamy says he’s immensely proud of Muse’s last three albums, but things were just getting a little out of hand. But when they began plotting out Drones, their politically-charged seventh album inspired by the expanded use of drone warfare across the globe, the trio decided it was time to radically strip things down.
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Muse spent the past few years pushing the sonic boundaries of rock & roll, creating increasingly bombastic music that utilized symphonies, choirs, synthesizers and, in the case of 2012’s The 2nd Law, Skrillex-inspired dubstep sounds.