the two-headed snake comes in handy when you're in a bar fight...
Muse proves that you can't go wrong with sex, violence, robots and loud guitars in the video for Knights of Cydonia. The video is fun, but the song itself is a call to action:
Come ride with me through the veins of history
I'll show you how god falls asleep on the job
And how can we win when fools can be kings?
Don't waste your time or time will waste you
Their new album Black Holes and Revelations resembles Bends-era Radiohead mixed with a touch of glam and Pink Floyd spacey-ness. But it's angrier and darker than mid-1990s Britpop because the world is angrier and darker now.
In Take a Bow, the first track on the album, frontman Matt Bellamy delivers a righteous condemnation of an anonymous political figure (guess who) singing "you bring death and destruction to all that you touch". The song builds and builds beautifully, preparing to climax, to explode in full regalia. It's fun swirling good time as Bellamy shouts "yeah you'll burn in hell for your sins".
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