“The idea for this album was: ‘Let’s make it about what’s actually happening in the world right now’” What I didn’t know was what was about to happen.” That was the end of 2019 we made that decision. But the idea was: the next one, let’s make it a bit more about what’s actually happening in the world right now. “Thematically we went into fantasy Metaverse fictional world a little bit on the last album,” Matt says later, “which I like, and I think we’ll go back there again in the future and go even weirder, just become a bunch of avatars and download ourselves into the metaverse. Here rising populism, political manipulation, the Capitol insurrection, domestic violence, COVID, online thought control and climate disaster come across the Bellamy pulpit over 10 tracks, concluding with the unflinching assessment that ‘We Are Fucking Fucked’. These are the sort of concerns that Matt largely put aside for 2018’s ’80s themed metaverse fantasy album ‘Simulation Theory’, but has returned to with a screeching tech-metal passion on forthcoming ninth album ‘Will Of The People’ – written and part-recorded remotely during the pandemic (until Matt, drummer Dom Howard and bassist Chris Wolstenholme could get together at Abbey Road to finish it) and saturated with its horrors. Over a mind-expanding hour, Matt delivers an advanced, updated take on the sci-fi meta-politics that the Devon-formed band have been making rock-like earthbound meteorites of since 1998. Thoughts bubble and burble from the depths of the Muse mainframe incisive and insightful ideas and observations on our fast-corroding planet. It’s the end of a certain cycle of civilisation…” In reality, if we’re honest about it, it’s not even the end of humanity, right? But it’s the end of something. It’s definitely not the end of evolution. It’s definitely not the end of the world. “The end of what, though? It’s not the end of humans. “End is coming,” says Muse’s motormouth of truth, more philosophical at 43 than the yowling young doom-monger of the ’00s. “Transition – that’s the word I’d use now.” As the morning staff of The Ivy restaurant in central London scuttle around, wondering if their dress code includes sci-fi bomber jackets, Matt Bellamy, at a corner table, accelerates to verbal light speed as he rockets past climate disasters, energy crises, social disorder and economic collapse, and reaches the crux of humanity’s existential dilemma. No, according to rock’s most prescient oracle of apocalypse, you need to be prepping for the Great Transition. Forget the Great Reset: that’s just the babbling of the red-pilled Russian bots.
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