Muse share stomping new song ‘Will Of The People’ and announce intimate tour

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Muse have shared the stomping new song ‘Will Of The People’, alongside a dramatic new video for the track – scroll down the page to watch it now.The band have previously released two prior previews of their upcoming album – also titled ‘Will Of The People’ – which will arrive on August 26.“Will Of The People’ is [a] fictional story set in a fictional metaverse on a fictional planet ruled by a fictional authoritarian state run by a fictional algorithm manifested by a fictional data centre running a fictional bank printing a fictional currency controlling a fictional population occupying a fictional city containing a fictional apartment where a fictional man woke up one day and thought ‘fuck this’,” frontman Matt Bellamy explained in a press release.“Free your sons and unlock your daughters,” the frontman sings over zipping guitars. “We’ll throw the baby out with the bathwater / With every second our anger increases / We’re gonna smash our nation to pieces.”Watch the video, directed by award-winning animator and producer Tom Teller, above now.Muse will also return to the road in October for a series of intimate theatre dates across North America and Europe.

The shows will follow a summer of festival appearances at the likes of Rock Am Ring, Isle Of Wight Festival and Mad Cool.“We had such a good time at our recent charity shows at the Apollo in London last month we wanted to play some of these types of smaller theatres that we hadn’t played for a long time in the U.S and Europe before we head out on tour in 2023,” the band said.For the European shows, fans who have pre-ordered the album ‘Will Of The People’ will have first access to pre-sale tickets from 10am local time on June 21.