I've always liked them but just blasting Absolution in the car this morning - jaysus it's mindblowing in parts.
Apocolypse Please - "This is the end, this iiis the end...of the wooorld!"
I'm telling you I nearly pulled the steering wheel out.
That Matt Bellamy guy is seriously talented - great vocalist (reasonable lyricist too) and fantastic guitarist & songwriter - he's only young too, the git.
A little bit of trivia for you, Muse is one of Stephanie Meyers favourite bands and inspired most of her twilight saga writing. So millions of teenage girls (and em older girls ahem) have a lot to thank Muse for.
Stephanie Meyers thanks Muse at the beginning of her books
My new steering wheel puller is Take a Bow by the way - the ridiculously overblown and dramatic but wonderful opener to Black Holes &Revelations.
Check it out - celestial based nemesis, the soundtrack to judgement day. If god had a band it might sound like this - as long as lucifer collaborated on songwriting duties that is.