If the snow and cold weather has you down, take a trip to the beach with Muse in today's video for their soon-to-be-released single, "Supremacy," the lead single from English alternative rock band's most recent dystrophy-worthy sixth studio album, "The 2nd Law," which has already sold 1.5 million copies worldwide.
Muse open their latest album with "Supremacy," reportedly written for the latest James Bond film "Skyfall" but was rejected in favor of Adele's "Skyfall" theme, in which they foresee the collapse of industrial civilization. The track is a bit of stately, epic stadium rock which starts off slow and gradually builds to squealing guitars, symphony strings, lead singer Matt Bellamy's almost-operatic vocals and headbanging mayhem with iron-fisted guitar-drums interplay that could keep the trains running on time.
Muse open their latest album with "Supremacy," reportedly written for the latest James Bond film "Skyfall" but was rejected in favor of Adele's "Skyfall" theme, in which they foresee the collapse of industrial civilization. The track is a bit of stately, epic stadium rock which starts off slow and gradually builds to squealing guitars, symphony strings, lead singer Matt Bellamy's almost-operatic vocals and headbanging mayhem with iron-fisted guitar-drums interplay that could keep the trains running on time.
Spiraling swamp blues of the track builds to a climax of orchestral hysteria as Bellamy orates a terrifying scene of mankind losing its supremacy over the Earth as the seas have risen up and energy shortages cause global desperation. A pivot away from Muse's previous material, the focus on subtle sonic textures in "Supremacy" marks a new, more nuanced direction for the Brit pomp rockers.
The video is appropriately gonzo. Featuring a crew of face-painted black-metal lovers hanging out, surfing, skating, biking while hoisting flaming swords and even hosting a sunset wedding and having a whale of a time in Los Angeles, as the band jam out on a boat and bashes out the monstrous prog rock epic against a backdrop of Goth surfers. It just doesn't match the Bond theme-like track it's paired with. The only thing the song and the video have in common is they're just awesome.
The video is appropriately gonzo. Featuring a crew of face-painted black-metal lovers hanging out, surfing, skating, biking while hoisting flaming swords and even hosting a sunset wedding and having a whale of a time in Los Angeles, as the band jam out on a boat and bashes out the monstrous prog rock epic against a backdrop of Goth surfers. It just doesn't match the Bond theme-like track it's paired with. The only thing the song and the video have in common is they're just awesome.
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