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[[File:MUSE 2022 2000-696x442.jpg|thumb|right|New album promo pic<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CYb-0PFL5xU/</ref>]]
| Name = Knights of Cydonia
{{Discobox
| Album =
| Name = Will of the People
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| Tracks = 10
|[[Black Holes and Revelations (album)|Black Holes and Revelations]] <small>(11)</small>, [[Knights of Cydonia (single)|Knights of Cydonia]] <small>(1)</small>
| Length = TBA
|[[Invincible (single)|Invincible <small>CD</small>]] <small>(2)</small>
| Recorded = 2021
|[[H.A.A.R.P. (live)|H.A.A.R.P.]] <small>CD,DVD (2)</small>
| Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]], [[Dominic Howard]], [[Christopher Wolstenholme]]
}}
| Producer = Muse, [[Aleks Von Korff]]
| Length = {{drop
| Art = TBA
|6:06
| Publisher = TBA
|4:42 <small>(radio edit)</small>
|Format = TBA
|3:59 <small>(edit 3'59)</small>
|CatNumber = TBA
}}
| Release = 2022 / TBA
| AltTitles = -
| Chart = N/A
| First = [[One Big Weekend 2006 (gig)|13th May 2006]]
| Previous = Simulation Theory
| Latest = [[Indio Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2014 - 19th (gig)|19th April 2014]]
| PreviousLink = Simulation Theory (album)
| Recorded = New York Avatar/[[Electric Lady Studios]] - 2005
| Next =
| Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]]
| NextLink =  
| Producer = [[Rich Costey]]
| single1 = Won't Stand Down | image1 = WontStandDown.jpg
| Chart position = 10 <small>(UK)</small>, 10 <small>(US Modern Rock)</small>, 72 <small>(UK Download)</small>
| Type = album
}}
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| Current = Knights of Cydonia
| Next = [[Glorious (song) | Glorious]] (bonus track)
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==Description==
== Information ==
Taking its cues from Mariachi bands and the 'Doctor Who' theme tune, the track sounds like a soundtrack to a spaghetti western set in the far reaches of the galaxy and features a chain-smoking trumpeter called Franco. The intro features sounds of horses neighing and galloping, as well as laser guns firing. Standard set opener and closer during the [[Black Holes and Revelations]] tour and standard set closer during [[The Resistance]] tour too.


Matt in about the meaning of Knights of Cydonia: There is this feeling of waking up and trying to fight back, or it’s time to actually try and change yourself and the things that are going on around you. I think to me that’s very optimistic, this strength [...] at the end of “Knights of Cydonia,” when I’m just saying, “No one is going to take me alive” and all that kind of stuff. I think it’s the strength of the human spirit fighting against the forces that are manipulating it.<ref>{{cite/undertheradar20060720}}</ref>
Matt first hinted at working on new Muse material in an interview with ALT 98.7 FM, backstage at the ALTerEGO Festival in January of 2020, where he said, that the goal for 2020 was to work on new Muse material, allthough the plans were probably halted due to the coronavirus pandemic, as the three were unable to get together due to the lockdowns. Bellamy instead focused on releasing his solo material. Matt also hinted on working on Muse material in a May interview with Zane Lowe, on Beats 1 Radio, saying that he has a few pieces written that are suited for Muse.<ref>https://youtu.be/wGHqxU-63HM?t=292</ref> In an interview with Rolling Stone, also in May, he said that that the idea would be to record the album in 2021 and potentially go on a tour in 2022.<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/muse-matt-bellamy-interview-coronavirus-quarantine-999208/</ref>


==Composition==
Bellamy confirmed he started writing the new Muse album in an interview with [[The Jaded Hearts Club|The Jaded Hearts Club Band]] for The Sun.<ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/12884819/matt-bellamy-thought-jaded-hearts-club-were-the-beatles/</ref> He also hinted at the band working on the next album in a brief Instagram comment in March 2021.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Muse/comments/lxdvdb/new_album_on_the_way_confirmed/</ref>
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The track begins and ends in the key of {{wikipedia|E minor}}.<ref>
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Chris said: "When we wrote 'Knights,' we were listening to a lot of Morricone and stuff like Dick Dale, surf stuff like that. Plus lots of fairly ridiculous '70s stuff too. When we started it, we decided to be quite open going into it. We knew we wanted to do something different." <ref>Cowboys, Lasers, Karate, Robots — Muse Left Nothing Out Of Buzzworthy Video (20060908 VH1 article)</ref>
In the interview, Bellamy said the following: ''"I started writing when all the protests and all the chaos were kicking off. It’s a weird thing to say but it suits the music I write. It keeps you a little bit on edge."''


==Additional information==
Bellamy jokingly said, in an Instagram comment reply on [https://www.instagram.com/p/COBjSGLhFzP/ Dom Howard's Instagram post], that the album would include "emotional gasps and many usages of the word ‘soul’.".
[[Dominic Howard|Howard]]: [[Matthew Bellamy|Matt]] was at the back of the bus in Arizona, repeating the jerky riff to death, outside we could see the desert rolling...all that went very well together. Galloping horses, Texas, trumpets etc. We wanted to depict a journey, to make it sound like Joe Meek.


The intro of the song, especially Bellamy's guitar, is significantly influenced by the sound of [[The Tornados]]' hit single, [[Telstar]], of which Bellamy's father, George Bellamy, was the rhythm guitarist. Bellamy has even stated, regarding the similarities, when asked about them: "Absolutely... in the guitar sound. We were aware of that when we were making the album. My dad's band mainly played instrumental music, and I always wanted to bring some more instrumental elements into our albums, to have more abstract moments. On the opening part of that song, we made a conscious effort to make the guitar sound like a 1950s synth, one of the first synthesizers around, that they'd used for the sound of the 'Telstar' bit. That was deliberate."
== Recording ==


[[Christopher Wolstenholme|Wolstenholme]] has described the song as "40 years of rock history in six minutes".<ref>
In an interview with NME, Bellamy said that he'd like the idea of the band "totally resetting" and going back to their hometown of Teignmouth, Devon to rehearse and record the next album. It appears however, that this was not the case, as the first studio pictures that started to emerge were from Bellamy's studio, located somewhere in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and later sessions took place at [[Abbey Road Studios]]. The first proof of Muse being in the studio was an Instagram post of [https://www.instagram.com/p/CMT4hOxjpeI/ Matt playing a piano], posted in March of 2021, however work likely began earlier.
{{cite |
title=Muse: A Brief History | desc=LA times article | date=2007-04 | auth=Craig Rosen | pub=Los Angeles Times | doc=Muse: A Brief History (200704 Los Angeles Times article) | type=int
}}</ref>


First aired on KROQ radio on the 7th June, 2006.
Producer [[Aleks Von Korff]], who previously worked with Muse as an engineer on [[Simulation Theory (album)|Simulation Theory]], and produced Bellamy's solo material - songs like [[Tomorrow's World (Matthew Bellamy song)|Tomorrow's World]], also posted a picture from this L.A. studio, with the wooden Kawai piano. According to him, the studio, named by Von Korff as "The Black Lodge", had been fully built in early 2020.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/</ref> The studio has previously been seen during the recording sessions for the debut album of Matt's cover band/supergroup [[The Jaded Hearts Club]], aswell as during the recording of [[Simulation Theory (album)|Simulation Theory]].


The percussion bears similarity with [[Riffs and jams#I Want to Break Free|I Want to Break Free]], which they covered as an instrumental before Knights of Cydonia in Rolling Stone 2006.  
Between April and June 2021, the band took a break from recording, to work on a remix of [[Origin_of_Symmetry_(album)#Origin_of_Symmetry:_XX_Anniversary_RemiXX|Origin of Symmetry]]. In early June, Chris came to L.A. to join Dom and Matt continuing work on the album.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CP6Xo7IjPs1/</ref>


The song has been featured in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, 2 and the Wii. The Game was released in Autumn 2007.<ref>
In November of 2021, [[Adrian Bushby]] posted a picture of him and Howard at [[Abbey Road Studios]], tracking drums, hinting at the album being partially tracked in there.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CWBaoDFtHHk/?utm_medium=copy_link</ref> Prior to that, on July 24th, 2021, Muse also posted a picture of Bellamy holding one of his Manson guitars, posing infront of Abbey Road Studios with the caption saying "Good to be back".<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CRtsMriBtpm/</ref> Bellamy also posted a picture of his son, Bing, infront of Abbey Road Studios around that time.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CTFAGKPjCx5/</ref> This makes the upcoming album the second LP to be (albeit partially) recorded at Abbey Road after 20 years, when [[Origin of Symmetry (album)|Origin of Symmetry]] was recorded at the studios.
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}}</ref>


The song has been featured in commercials for the DVD of the movie 300. The 300 DVD Trailer can be seen [http://youtube.com/watch?v=WrBXLzHLRl4 here]. It was also used, around the same time, on E4, for the E4 showing of the film A Knight's Tale which aired on Tuesday 9th October 2007.
On December 1st, 2021, Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer at Sterling Sound Studios posted a picture of Bellamy and Howard sitting on a couch, with the entire album likely at the mastering stage during that time. <ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9SHCXPtJy/</ref>


Knights of Cydonia was voted number 1, defeating second place by only 13 votes in Australia's Triple J hottest 100 for 2007.
The album has been, compared to previous releases, recorded in almost complete secrecy, with very few images from the recording sessions themselves, and no real info as to what we might expect from it, up until Matt's snippet of [[Won't Stand Down (single)|Won't Stand Down]] was streamed live on Instagram.


On Tuesday 24th June 2008, Knights of Cydonia become the first ever song played on NME Radio.
== Release ==
The band won a fierce online poll which saw fans of acts like The Killers, Oasis, The Strokes and more all voting in an online poll to choose the first song played as the station went live at 11am (BST).


Has recently been played at the New Yankee Stadium as a "pump up" song.
On December 25th, 2021, Bellamy made up for the lack of a muse.mu Christmas present with a short livestream from his Tesla, on Muse's Instagram profile, showcasing part of [[Won't Stand Down (single)|Won't Stand Down]], as seen on the car dashboard, together with a track number of "4", possibly being the fourth track on the album. The 60 second stream was then screen-recorded by a few people, with copyright bots deleting the posts, and revealing the song name, meaning that the song was, at that time, nearing it's release. Matt's minute-long stream can be listened to [https://www.reddit.com/r/Muse/comments/romrcw/full_60_second_preview_of_new_song_wont_stand/ here]. The then approaching release of the song was teased once again on Muse's New Years Eve Instagram post, when they wrote a caption saying "Looking forward to WSD. We'll see you on the other side!" under a picture, before quickly replacing "WSD" with "2022".  


Was used during Super Bowl XLV during the team introduction for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
[[Won't Stand Down (single)|Won't Stand Down]] was subsequently announced a week later, on January 7th, 2022, on Muse's social media<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CYbuFCOKPfv/</ref>, after [https://wontstanddown.muse.mu/ wontstanddown.muse.mu] has been spotted being online a day earlier. Together with it also came the single artwork (which was leaked through source code via the website a few hours before it's official unveiling), and a new promo image of the band. The song could be pre-saved and pre-added on Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music at the afforementioned site, and was released on Jan. 13th on all afforementioned digital platforms. Almost two months later, on Matt Bellamy's Instagram story, posted on March 2nd, 2022, when Bellamy went over the guitar tuning for Won't Stand Down, he  mentioned that a second heavy song will appear on the album. With this, he further confirmed that Won't Stand Down will indeed appear on the upcoming album.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Muse/comments/t5fv8w/from_matts_instagram_story/</ref>


An anagram for Knights of Cydonia is "Fancy Kid Shooting".
On March 9th, 2022, Muse posted a short, half-minute video on their YouTube, simply titled "MUSE", which depicts statues of the band's heads being torn down by a group of rioters in the middle of a desert, while wearing masks from the Won't Stand Down music video, with a choir of Matts singing the line "The Will of the People", the supposed name of the upcoming album (and likely an upcoming song also).<ref>https://youtu.be/nzHnwHzp9o4</ref> The animation was produced by California-based animation studio, Frame 48, with creative direction from [[Jesse Lee Stout]] of Metaform Studio, head sculpting made by 3D designer Tyrone Yarde and key art produced by digital artist Tiago Marinho.


===Live===
The graffiti on the statues, shown on the possible album artwork at the end of the previously-mentioned clip, is speculated to show all song titles (however this has not been fully confirmed yet); including (apart from "Won't Stand Down" & "Compliance") the following writings: "''Liberation''" & "''Will of the People''" on Dom's head, "''Die''" & "''Kill or Be Killed''" on Matt's head, and "''Ghosts''", "''Won't Stand Down''" & "''Euphoria''" on Chris's head, with two more writings, which have yet to be deciphered (one supposedly being "''Fuck off''" on Matt's head). Dom's head also includes "IX" written on, in roman numericals, which likely stands for the album being their ninth one. It's not been confirmed whether the image at the end is the actual album artwork.
From on the [[Neuhausen ob Eck Southside Festival 2006 (gig)|24th of June]], a guitar adaption of the [[Space Dementia (song)|Space Dementia]] ending has been used as an outro for Knights of Cydonia. The playing of this outro was ceased between sometime in late October 2006 and [[Nottingham National Ice Centre Arena 2006 (gig)|17th November 2006]].


Since [[St Austell Eden Project 2006 (gig)|22nd August 2006]], a different riff has been used towards the end of the song.
Both the Won't Stand Down single artwork and it's music video include a monogram image, displayed on the characters' suits and throughout various places across the music video. The monogram also appears on the presumed album artwork. It has been theorised that the monogram might have been linked to the album name, which appeared to be the case, as the album is titled "Will of the People", which goes along with the letters in the monogram itself (WOTP).


Since [[Belfast Odyssey Arena 2006 (gig)|4th November 2006]], a new guitar part has been used before the first vocal segment.
On March 11th, 2022, it was discovered by Muse fans that the index code from [https://wontstanddown.muse.mu/api/v1/catalogue/new/ wontstanddown.muse.mu], contains basic album info, including the tracklist and anagrams for each song which will appear on the album. The same day, Muse announced a new song/single, [[Compliance (single)|Compliance]], to be released on March 17th, 2022, available for pre-saving on [http://mu-se.co/compliance-prerelease mu-se.co/compliance-prerelease].<ref>https://twitter.com/muse/status/1502298309368631296</ref> The song, and its music video, leaked on March 15th through Vimeo.<ref>https://vimeo.com/688432698</ref> A day earlier, on March 14th, 2022, the "wontstanddown" site has been updated with resolved anagrams, leaking all song titles. Neither the tracklist, nor the name, have not been officially announced yet.


During the latter half of the Black Holes and Revelations tour, Matt has played the [[Riffs and jams#Close Encounters riff|Close Encounters]] riff as an intro to Knights of Cydonia. In August of 2008, the band began to play [[Riffs and jams#Man with a Harmonica|Man with a Harmonica]] intro with Chris on the harmonica. They have since included it in most performances of Knights of Cydonia.
== Tracklist ==
''Based on data from JSON output off of [https://wontstanddown.muse.mu/api/v1/catalogue/new/ wontstanddown.muse.mu]''


Alternating with [[Take a Bow (song)|Take A Bow]] as gig openers and closers from 2006-2008 (typically as the opener), Knights of Cydonia was the standard set closer during The Resistance Tour. For the first half of The 2nd Law Tour, it typically closed the first encore (occasionally alternating with [[Survival (song)|Survival]] as gig closer), before being moved to the middle of the first set from [[Antwerp Sportpaleis 2012 (gig)|18th December 2012]].
{{tracklist
 
|01 = Will of the People
==Cydonia==
|02 = Compliance
Cydonia is a place on Mars, where the controversial rock formation shaped like a human face can be seen. Doing some further research, there are conspiracy theories that Cydonia is actually a NASA cover up, because there's more than one "human" face there, and evidence of pyramids and a city. Martians may have existed there. Certainly something Matt would be interested in, having said this - there are beliefs in a great war that destroyed Mars, and the inhabitants had to move elsewhere... to Earth.
|03 = Liberation
 
|04 = Won't Stand Down
"...A great war was fought once in our solar system. One of our planets was devastated because of it. But by the end of it the aggressor was beat back and they were able to rebuild here on Earth."
|05 = Ghosts (How Can I Move On)
"The enemy in the war, devastated Mars..." [http://marsearthconnection.com/clues.html#c17]
|06 = You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween
|07 = Kill or Be Killed
|08 = Verona
|09 = Euphoria
|10 = We Are Fucking Fucked
}}


However, more recent pictures of Cydonia reveal that the apparent 'faces' look nothing like faces at all, and the older images were the result of shadows across the hill.
== Personnel ==
''Incomplete''


==Lyrics==
'''Muse'''
{{lyrics
*[[Matt Bellamy]] - Vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards, co-production
|Come ride with me
*[[Chris Wolstenholme]] - Bass, backing vocals, co-production
Through the veins of history
*[[Dominic Howard]] - Drums, co-production
I'll show you a God who falls asleep on the job
How can we win, when fools can be kings?
Don't waste your time or time will waste you


No one's gonna take me alive
'''Production'''
The time has come to make things right
*[[Aleks Von Korff]] - Additional production, Engineering, ATMOS Mixing
You and I must fight for our rights
*[[Adrian Bushby]] - Engineering
You and I must fight to survive
*Joe Devenney - Engineering assistant
*Dan Lancaster - Mixing
*Rhys May - Mixing assistant
*Chris Whitemyer - Technical assistant
*Andy Maxwell - Abbey Road assistance
*Tommy Bosustow - Abbey Road assistance
*Chris Gehringer - Mastering


No one's gonna take me alive
'''Art'''
The time has come to make things right
*[[Jesse Lee Stout]] - Creative direction
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive


No one's gonna take me alive
== Ninth album recording gallery ==
The time has come to make things right
<gallery>
You and I must fight for our rights
File:2021_05_02_AVKVanHalen.jpg | "Might as well! Good way to spend a Friday, chasing one of the all time great synth sounds 🦾" (''video'') (5th February 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7TfsWhZl-/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
You and I must fight to survive
File:2021_16_02_AVKRack.jpg | "One of these kinda days ☺️❤️🍝" (16th February 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLVKL00B2hg/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
}}
File:2021_27_02_AVKMellotron.jpg | "Brought a few toys from home into work 🤗🎹" (27th February 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLx1Mf6hoSb/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-12-03_KKawaiAVK.jpg | "ty @kawaipianos for this beauty 🤍 sounding innnnnncredible 👌🏻" (12th March 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CMVDlJJhgc0/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-12-03_MattExplorers.jpg.png | "Who can name that tune?" (''video'') (12th March 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CMT4hOxjpeI/ Matt's Instagram])
File:2021-06-04_AVKAmps1.jpg | "Havin a blast with the @uaudio OX Amp top box. Making some naaaasty 🤘🏻 things and the OX is coming through in a huge way!..." (6th April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVrZ4yBNmJ/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-06-04_AVKAmps2.jpg | "Havin a blast with the @uaudio OX Amp top box. Making some naaaasty 🤘🏻 things and the OX is coming through in a huge way!..." (6th April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVrZ4yBNmJ/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-06-04_AVKAmps3.jpg | "Havin a blast with the @uaudio OX Amp top box. Making some naaaasty 🤘🏻 things and the OX is coming through in a huge way!..." (6th April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVrZ4yBNmJ/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-12-04_RoxaneBettyDom.jpg | "Being Dom Malkovitch 🎨 @roxannebettycreative" (12th April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNlBWLHjCue/ Matt's Instagram])
File:2021-23-04_DomFloyd.jpg | "The producer still needs naps. He wanted to let you know the new album is sounding fat and to hope you are all keeping well and healthy 🙏🤟🏼🥁" (23rd April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/COBjSGLhFzP/ Dom's Instagram]
File:2021-23-04_AVKBar.jpg | "Old fashioned time at the studio bar after a nice long week of tracking 🥃😌" (23rd April 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/COCFq66BHTW/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-13-06_StudioDogAVK.jpg | "Studio dog best dog 😍" (13th June 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CQC7TPghyBx/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021-07-24_BellamyAbbeyRoad.jpg | "Good to be back" (24th July 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CRtsMriBtpm/ Muse's Instagram])
File:2021_08_11_BushbyInstagram.jpg | "Drum tracking with @muse at @abbeyroadstudios a couple months back. In my happy place with @domhoward77 and the gang 💕🎵" (8th November 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CWBaoDFtHHk/ Adrian Bushby's Instagram])
File:2021_24_11_DomDogAVK.jpg | "girl wouldn’t stop chewing on cables, so put her in my lap while working. not the most productive day but probs the cutest.🤍" (24th November 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CWo6DE3vq42/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021_01_12_ChrisGehringerMuse.jpg | "@muse" (1st December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9SHCXPtJy/ Chris Gehringer's Instagram])
File:2021_12_25_AVKStudio1.png | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (''video'') (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021 12 25 AVKStudio2.jpg | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021 12 25 AVKStudio3.jpg | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021 12 25 AVKStudio4.jpg | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2021 12 25 AVKStudio5.jpg | "Spent the last year and a half in this space after putting it all together in the summer of 2020. ⁣As this Christmas is pretty much the first full break I’ve had since then - been nice to scroll back and reflect on things! Feelin grateful 🙌🏻 Happy Holidays y’all 🙂" (25th December 2021; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6KyANuNT8/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2022_01_10_AVKWSDBassScreen.png | "THURSDAY! 1.13 #wontstanddown @muse 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻" (''video'') (10th January 2022; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CYiXIHfrqOM/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2022_01_10_AVKWSDWahs.jpg | "THURSDAY! 1.13 #wontstanddown @muse 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻" (10th January 2022; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CYiXIHfrqOM/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2022_02_06_AVKMattMarshall.jpg | "Don’t let your memes be dreams. Also, cabinets def sound better with a few @mansonguitarworks headstock shaped holes in em courtesy of Matt." (6th February 2022; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CZnTUjGPock/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
File:2022_02_07_BellamyGuitarViol.png | "I used this GuitarViol (Kind of half fretted mini cello with a guitar tuning) to record the pizzicato strings for the verse of #wontstanddown Recorded around 12-16 takes to sound orchestral. @muse" (''video'') (7th February 2022; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CZr0AqTJNt2/ Matt's Instagram])
File:2022_02_07_AVKGuitarViol.jpg | "Coupla DPAs, a 122v, some a-ha…and boy you got a stew goin’ 🎻👨🏻‍🍳 Pizz strings on the guitarviol for Won’t Stand Down 🤘🏻" (7th February 2022; [https://www.instagram.com/p/CZsNANIPK6Q/ Aleks Von Korff's Instagram])
</gallery>


==References==
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==See also==
*[[Black Holes and Revelations media use|Commercial use in media]]
==External links==
*[http://muse-download.com One Big Weekend audio download] (dead)
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Revision as of 19:40, 15 March 2022

New album promo pic[1]
Muse album
Name Will of the People
Tracks 10
Total length TBA
Recorded 2021
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, Christopher Wolstenholme
Producer Muse, Aleks Von Korff
Art work TBA
Publisher TBA
Format(s) TBA
Catalogue № TBA
Release date 2022 / TBA
Chart position N/A
album chronology
Simulation Theory
Will of the People
Singles
WontStandDown.jpg


Information

Matt first hinted at working on new Muse material in an interview with ALT 98.7 FM, backstage at the ALTerEGO Festival in January of 2020, where he said, that the goal for 2020 was to work on new Muse material, allthough the plans were probably halted due to the coronavirus pandemic, as the three were unable to get together due to the lockdowns. Bellamy instead focused on releasing his solo material. Matt also hinted on working on Muse material in a May interview with Zane Lowe, on Beats 1 Radio, saying that he has a few pieces written that are suited for Muse.[2] In an interview with Rolling Stone, also in May, he said that that the idea would be to record the album in 2021 and potentially go on a tour in 2022.[3]

Bellamy confirmed he started writing the new Muse album in an interview with The Jaded Hearts Club Band for The Sun.[4] He also hinted at the band working on the next album in a brief Instagram comment in March 2021.[5]

In the interview, Bellamy said the following: "I started writing when all the protests and all the chaos were kicking off. It’s a weird thing to say but it suits the music I write. It keeps you a little bit on edge."

Bellamy jokingly said, in an Instagram comment reply on Dom Howard's Instagram post, that the album would include "emotional gasps and many usages of the word ‘soul’.".

Recording

In an interview with NME, Bellamy said that he'd like the idea of the band "totally resetting" and going back to their hometown of Teignmouth, Devon to rehearse and record the next album. It appears however, that this was not the case, as the first studio pictures that started to emerge were from Bellamy's studio, located somewhere in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and later sessions took place at Abbey Road Studios. The first proof of Muse being in the studio was an Instagram post of Matt playing a piano, posted in March of 2021, however work likely began earlier.

Producer Aleks Von Korff, who previously worked with Muse as an engineer on Simulation Theory, and produced Bellamy's solo material - songs like Tomorrow's World, also posted a picture from this L.A. studio, with the wooden Kawai piano. According to him, the studio, named by Von Korff as "The Black Lodge", had been fully built in early 2020.[6] The studio has previously been seen during the recording sessions for the debut album of Matt's cover band/supergroup The Jaded Hearts Club, aswell as during the recording of Simulation Theory.

Between April and June 2021, the band took a break from recording, to work on a remix of Origin of Symmetry. In early June, Chris came to L.A. to join Dom and Matt continuing work on the album.[7]

In November of 2021, Adrian Bushby posted a picture of him and Howard at Abbey Road Studios, tracking drums, hinting at the album being partially tracked in there.[8] Prior to that, on July 24th, 2021, Muse also posted a picture of Bellamy holding one of his Manson guitars, posing infront of Abbey Road Studios with the caption saying "Good to be back".[9] Bellamy also posted a picture of his son, Bing, infront of Abbey Road Studios around that time.[10] This makes the upcoming album the second LP to be (albeit partially) recorded at Abbey Road after 20 years, when Origin of Symmetry was recorded at the studios.

On December 1st, 2021, Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer at Sterling Sound Studios posted a picture of Bellamy and Howard sitting on a couch, with the entire album likely at the mastering stage during that time. [11]

The album has been, compared to previous releases, recorded in almost complete secrecy, with very few images from the recording sessions themselves, and no real info as to what we might expect from it, up until Matt's snippet of Won't Stand Down was streamed live on Instagram.

Release

On December 25th, 2021, Bellamy made up for the lack of a muse.mu Christmas present with a short livestream from his Tesla, on Muse's Instagram profile, showcasing part of Won't Stand Down, as seen on the car dashboard, together with a track number of "4", possibly being the fourth track on the album. The 60 second stream was then screen-recorded by a few people, with copyright bots deleting the posts, and revealing the song name, meaning that the song was, at that time, nearing it's release. Matt's minute-long stream can be listened to here. The then approaching release of the song was teased once again on Muse's New Years Eve Instagram post, when they wrote a caption saying "Looking forward to WSD. We'll see you on the other side!" under a picture, before quickly replacing "WSD" with "2022".

Won't Stand Down was subsequently announced a week later, on January 7th, 2022, on Muse's social media[12], after wontstanddown.muse.mu has been spotted being online a day earlier. Together with it also came the single artwork (which was leaked through source code via the website a few hours before it's official unveiling), and a new promo image of the band. The song could be pre-saved and pre-added on Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music at the afforementioned site, and was released on Jan. 13th on all afforementioned digital platforms. Almost two months later, on Matt Bellamy's Instagram story, posted on March 2nd, 2022, when Bellamy went over the guitar tuning for Won't Stand Down, he mentioned that a second heavy song will appear on the album. With this, he further confirmed that Won't Stand Down will indeed appear on the upcoming album.[13]

On March 9th, 2022, Muse posted a short, half-minute video on their YouTube, simply titled "MUSE", which depicts statues of the band's heads being torn down by a group of rioters in the middle of a desert, while wearing masks from the Won't Stand Down music video, with a choir of Matts singing the line "The Will of the People", the supposed name of the upcoming album (and likely an upcoming song also).[14] The animation was produced by California-based animation studio, Frame 48, with creative direction from Jesse Lee Stout of Metaform Studio, head sculpting made by 3D designer Tyrone Yarde and key art produced by digital artist Tiago Marinho.

The graffiti on the statues, shown on the possible album artwork at the end of the previously-mentioned clip, is speculated to show all song titles (however this has not been fully confirmed yet); including (apart from "Won't Stand Down" & "Compliance") the following writings: "Liberation" & "Will of the People" on Dom's head, "Die" & "Kill or Be Killed" on Matt's head, and "Ghosts", "Won't Stand Down" & "Euphoria" on Chris's head, with two more writings, which have yet to be deciphered (one supposedly being "Fuck off" on Matt's head). Dom's head also includes "IX" written on, in roman numericals, which likely stands for the album being their ninth one. It's not been confirmed whether the image at the end is the actual album artwork.

Both the Won't Stand Down single artwork and it's music video include a monogram image, displayed on the characters' suits and throughout various places across the music video. The monogram also appears on the presumed album artwork. It has been theorised that the monogram might have been linked to the album name, which appeared to be the case, as the album is titled "Will of the People", which goes along with the letters in the monogram itself (WOTP).

On March 11th, 2022, it was discovered by Muse fans that the index code from wontstanddown.muse.mu, contains basic album info, including the tracklist and anagrams for each song which will appear on the album. The same day, Muse announced a new song/single, Compliance, to be released on March 17th, 2022, available for pre-saving on mu-se.co/compliance-prerelease.[15] The song, and its music video, leaked on March 15th through Vimeo.[16] A day earlier, on March 14th, 2022, the "wontstanddown" site has been updated with resolved anagrams, leaking all song titles. Neither the tracklist, nor the name, have not been officially announced yet.

Tracklist

Based on data from JSON output off of wontstanddown.muse.mu

Personnel

Incomplete

Muse

Production

  • Aleks Von Korff - Additional production, Engineering, ATMOS Mixing
  • Adrian Bushby - Engineering
  • Joe Devenney - Engineering assistant
  • Dan Lancaster - Mixing
  • Rhys May - Mixing assistant
  • Chris Whitemyer - Technical assistant
  • Andy Maxwell - Abbey Road assistance
  • Tommy Bosustow - Abbey Road assistance
  • Chris Gehringer - Mastering

Art

Ninth album recording gallery

References