Viva La Resistance!
June 6, 2009Muse have revealed the name of their new album today (May 22) through their Twitter page.
This morning the band announced that their fifth record will be titled ‘The Resistance’ via their page on the social networking site, Twitter/musewire.
The band have been working on the follow-up to 2006’s ‘Black Holes and Revelations’ for the past year in Milan and Lake Como in Italy. The album is being produced by the band and mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Oasis, Depeche Mode).
Frontman Matt Bellamy had previously revealed that an orchestra had been recruited to play on the album, which he decribed as “symphonic”.
‘The Resistance’ is expected to be released in September.
A message posted on Muse.mu stated that the band – who are currently working on the follow up to 2006’s ‘Black Holes And Revelations’ – will play shows across Europe and North America later this year.
The post also revealed that Muse are to support U2 on some of their forthcoming North American tour this September.
The full message reads:
“We are pleased to confirm that Muse will be touring in the UK, Europe and North America this autumn.
“Full details on the UK and European dates will be announced soon, but for now we can confirm that the band will be special guests to U2 at a number of their North American shows this September, including New York on September 24.
“The remaining U2 dates will be announced in the coming weeks.”
Muse’s drummer Dom Howard recently posted a blog on his MySpace page stating that the album sessions are going well.
“We’ve probably got two more [songs] to record from scratch then we might be almost looking at a complete album,” he wrote.
“Then strings, synth sparkles, llamas toenails, gongs and anything else we can think of that will help us perceive they [the songs] are finished. The hardest bit is finishing.”
Howard added that the album is sounding “fucking great,” and that he is looking forward to playing it live.
