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METAL “RESISTANCE” TO MUSE

 Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 2:30pm by

As long as [most] metalheads continue to be a bunch of close-minded goofs there will be a large majority of people who object to us posting about non-metal bands like Muse, despite their obvious metal influence and undertones. Dudes… you’re missing out. The other day Eyal Tweeted or posted on Facebook that the Muse show he just witnessed in person was one of the most mind-blowing shows he’d been to in eons (or something to that effect). Muse are the real deal in every single facet and they’re as close as we’ve got to true rock stars in the age of Internet-created micro-micro-sub-sub-genres. If for some reason you’re still averse to Muse, get yo’ head out yo’ ass, fools.

Muse just released a new video for the title track of their latest album The Resistance [posted on SMNnews.com] and it’s the rare exception to the rule that live-footage music videos are ho-hum. As our friend Eyal just witnessed, Muse’s live show is positively mesmerizing. World class. The only band whose live performances I can compare it to is Nine Inch Nails, whose concerts are basically theatrical performances where an awesome band just happens to be playing. Check out the video below, and if you happen to be lucky enough to live in one of the markets in which their North American tour is playing this month and next I implore you to go.

-VN

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  • Matthew Grant Anson

    Fuck this band.

    • stu1

      You still waiting for Baz to reunited with “the Row” dude??

      • twistedfreak

        Agreed. No Muse is good Muse.

    • Clancy

      Agreed, still don’t get it.

    • MetalMeatHammer

      Muse > no Muse. Douche bag > Matthew Grant Anson

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Wilfred/100000007099811 Edward Wilfred

    I love Muse, but the latest album was sub-par.

    • dot

      true dat.

  • http://verbalgymnastics.wordpress.com oratorfit

    there is a difference between “non-metal” and shitty

    • Bic Pen

      bingo. Muse is fuck awful.

      • stu1

        You are deaf or have awful taste.

  • Gideon

    yeah, metaheads are annoyingly small-minded. No wonder that such conservative facists formed black metal.

    and ever since i started releasing electronic music, people have been telling me that I’ve apparently “left metal behind.” No, you stupid fucks, I still listen to Opeth, Demiricous and Gojira on a daily basis goddamit! stop judging people by simply their musical VOICE let alone their musical TASTE.

    thanks for posting this song, i really dig it! it’s actually good poprock.

    • iolanach

      I only like one Muse song.

      This isn’t it.

  • Aaron

    I want to punch those fans in the face

  • tiagón

    I listen to a lot of genres and bands besides metal, but this is too much for me. this song is so horrible I’m not sure if you ain’t joking. or else what next, fucking Coldplay?

    oh wait — you just compared this shit to NIN. I got the joke now. not funny, imho.

    • Clancy

      No doubt, can NOT be compared to NIN, live or not

  • M.

    one of my friends once described Muse as “it’s like U2 and Queen shat out a lovechild then put it up for adoption”.

    I dig the music, hate the vocals. pretty interesting stage set up I might add.

  • TVPenis

    Their “obvious metal influence” is just Queen, who weren’t metal but influenced a lot of the power metal bands. Common influence, not influence from metal. Though I can pick out some nu-metal style riffs every once in a while.

    • stu1

      I found similarities in their early stuff with the Deftones.

  • Brrrrrrt

    I f****** hate Muse !

    Just wanna punch that stupid singer right in the gums !

  • SP420

    Why do we have to be close minded if we don’t like one of your non-metal bands? Maybe this band just sucks. And maybe you’re being the one close minded, Axl.

    • Caspar Colderson

      Vince wrote it..

      • SP420

        Shit

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Byron-Ward/797615124 Byron Ward

    Had my tickets for a while now… Not until next month, but I’m looking forward to it

  • GoingDeaf?

    Not a big fan of this song, but i agree they are a good band. I thought the first single off the new album was killer. I dug the first album when it came out a few years ago too (first popular album, anyway, not sure if they released anything before they blew up). Definitely light years ahead of their counterparts in this sub-genre (The Killers), but also not up to par with their biggest obvious influence (Radiohead). Still a good band though…. props for posting some nonmetal for people to piss on here in the comments section. :)

  • ColinJ

    Muse are amazing. Those who doubt it suck cock by choice.

    • soy el niño más bonito

      not that there’s anything wrong with that

  • Lis

    While I do think the latest Muse album is their poorest effort yet, the early stuff – up to Absolution – is awesome. You may not like Matt Bellamy or his voice, but he crafts a ripping song, and shreds with the best of the metal guitarists. I saw Muse a few years ago, and I agree with Eyal – mind blowing live show. In the league of Opeth mind blowing live show – totally different venues and vibes, and why they were mind blowing, but I will list both those shows in the top 5 I have been to.

  • Raggogon

    not a single metal element or influence… maybe prog

    oh, and this shit is awful, and I don’t only listen to metal.

  • Tim

    I don’t hate Muse because they aren’t metal. I hate them because they’ve reached a U2-like level of over-hyped mediocrity. Porcupine Tree are in every way superior.

    • Crimsonking58

      THANK YOU!!! FINALLY someone agrees with me. Porcupine Tree is SO much better then Muse in every single way.

    • Dirtman73

      Agreed 1,010%

      • Gideon

        Porcupine Tree, for the most part, are shitty poprock. Go in my head, come back out and tell me I’m wrong.

  • Moose_Knuckle

    I really like origin of symetry, hullabaloo and showbiz but there latest albums have been really quite crappy. It seems like they’ve let their sucess get to them and decided to totally overproduce their albums whilst also trying their best to sound like bands there not. If i wanted to listen to queen then i would listen to queen. Wheres the intensity and the great riffs gone?. I want muse back without all this pretentious shit, it dosent suit them.

  • Lordassenfroth

    muse pwns nickleback fo sho, but i still dont like the band

  • Xenogia

    I watched the live DVD of Muse and I actually found the whole thing quite boring. Maybe it is different when your at the venue due to the energy and such. But overall, they never did it for me and the commercialism of their music has also turned me off.

  • RenegadeDave

    THeir stage show looks like it takes a page out of Metalocalypse’s playbook.

    That said, that’s my least favorite muse song I’ve yet encountered. The chorus was a blatant rip off of Queen (not that it’s a bad thing, it just didn’t seem to fit the song).

    That, and I’m not a huge fan of faux “live” videos. Yeah that’s live footage but it’s poorly synched studio music.

    I wouldn’t buy a ticket to their show, but I’d go if offered one.

  • major

    Hipster douchebag music.

    • Pahkmycah

      You’re a fucking idiot

    • stu1

      Assclown.

    • Paul

      As opposed to metalhead douchebag music?

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.com/ groverXIII

    Nice video. That stage setup is fucking great. But I didn’t like this song that much. The Queen-worship here is pretty strong, but it’s just not that great a song.

    And their coolest video is still the ‘Knights Of Cydonia’ video. May be the greatest video ever.

  • http://infinitybasement.tumblr.com Jon Lewis

    I’ma see these bitches on monday.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Sean-Heron/9391234 Ryan Sean Heron

    simply do not understand this music. reminds me of coldplay and radiohead and all those other english sounding monotone anti-melody bands that I hate and everybody else seems to love. the music is so bland and boring. and on top of that, there are a million band that all sound like this. go to you local hipster hot spot and you can see ten bands a night that look act and sound exactly like Muse or whoever else they’re copying their style from.

    • stu1

      You honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. Like, on several levels, you are wrong.

      • NoNameNoSlogan

        They remind me of Radiohead as well, but I love Radiohead….maybe it’s the guys voice. This isn’t too shabby, I’ll have to check out their earlier stuff.

        BUT Hey, METALSUCKS.NET writers can you please stop using the term “the real deal”. I mean WTF does that mean?

        You recently described Periphery as “the real deal” and IMO they are one of the worst bands to come out in a long time.

        • stu1

          There is some similarity to Radiohead. It was pretty much everything else that dude said is preposterous.

    • Timbodini

      1) There is more melody in this song alone than there is in most metal albums… it’s not monotone.
      2) There is more dynamic in this song than most metal songs… it’s not bland.
      3) Go to your local metal hot spot and you’ll see ten bands and a bunch of fans that look and act exactly the same.
      4) Coldplay sucks and so do you.
      5) I love metal and Muse and Radiohead.

      • stu1

        Agreed

        • leroydragon

          The singer sounds like a drowning cat. You cannot deny this. The music is ok, but his delivery is fucking awful.

  • SonOF

    I like Muse a lot. However, it is kinda annoying that they have gotten unbelievably popular on their most recent album, which is easily their worst. :/ So I’m not surprised when I hear people that don’t know about Muse hearing their new stuff and thinking that the band isn’t very good; I can’t blame them.

  • OBEY1019

    This band seems to be a more boring version of Radiohead.

  • Shinaain

    Always have to post my support for Muse posts on this site.

    Speaking of defying metal conservatism and general buffoonery, when is MetalSucks going to get around to posting a review of the new HIM album? If you try and tell me you haven’t heard it yet, MS dudes, I’ll call “f*ckery” on you.

    I’m going to go ahead and put it out there that *Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Vol. 1* is most excellent and a surprisingly enjoyable 180 from the last two albums. True statement. Not just saying that because it’s hilarious to poke sticks at f*cktards (even though it IS).

    • Shinaain

      Follow up: I should say, for those interested, that if *Dark Light* and *Venus Doom* were HIM’s “pop-doom” albums, whereby they paid homage to Black Sabbath and Type O Negative, then *Screamworks* is HIM’s 80′s tech noir album – in effect, “HIM scores a John Hughes movie in Hell.”

      I’m going to get so flamed for this, but that could be fun, too.

    • http://thenumberoftheblog.com/ groverXIII

      I gave it a listen and did a review… I really didn’t like it, though. It had some of the most overwrought lyrics I’ve ever heard.

      But hey, to each his own. I mean, I like Billy Talent. Fucking Billy Talent.

      (And sometimes, when I’m in the mood, I listen to Sheryl Crow. True story. Shhhh… I don’t want to lose my non-existent street cred.)

      • Kye

        I like HIM and I was pretty unimpressed by their new album. I don’t hate it, but it’s by far my least favorite release from them so far.

        And Billy Talent’s first CD was good stuff. I haven’t heard anything after that. Is it worth checking out?

        • http://thenumberoftheblog.com/ groverXIII

          If you liked the first CD, you’ll probably like the others. They really didn’t change their style, and they still have the same interesting guitar sound and could-be-really-annoying high-pitched vocals, and I still love ‘em.

    • http://www.metalsucks.net Vince Neilstein

      Believe it or not I actually HAVEN’T listened to it yet, but I do have it. Gotta get on that. You know we love HIM.

      • Shinaain

        Heinous f*ckery most foul, Vince. You, sir, are remiss.

        And Grovs? “Overwrought” is precisely The Point. And where’s the damn search option on your site??

  • Kye

    I love Muse. I really like Muse’s new album. I can’t stand this song.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/M60Patton Patton

    Muse are a great band, no doubt about that. Sadly resistance is the only song from the new album I don’t like, but you can’t have everything in life.

  • B-dizzle

    Fucking love Muse, and fuck everyone who hates them

    EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM

  • Lady Siara

    They’re all right other than that singer.

    Far too much vibrato, yo. Sounds like a bastardized Thom Yorke to me.

  • yetzer hara

    i got dragged to muse last night by a girl. they were surprisingly entertaining live. i still wouldn’t listen to them on wax, but i’d probably see them again.

  • Kris

    PSYCHED FOR FRIDAY-MUSE MSG!!!!!!

  • MetalRod

    Saw them in Vegas a few years ago, easily in my top 3 shows of all time. It was mind-fucking-ly amazing.

    • Brrrrrrt

      So I assume you only went to see 3 shows in your life … and nobody wants to know what were the other crappy 2 !

      Muse is pure shit ! Period !

  • DemonicLemming

    I like the band, but I can’t stand the borderline retarded political views the singer has. Anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job instantly loses all credibility in every aspect to me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kyle-Nipp/703436346 Kyle Nipp

    I saw them in 07, and they were freaking awesome. Got my tix for the show here in Phoenix on 4/9.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Morley/618112437 William Morley

    From living in the UK, I’ve been exposed to Muse since about 2001 and I’ve gotta say, I hated them then and I hate them more now. Matt Belamy is an arrogant fucktard how can’t single a vocal line without taking a massive intake of breath right after. Seriously. Listen to every line of every Muse song and you’ll hear him do this. Fuck Muse, they suck.

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/62449cbe5ea8d22bcc2e76890fceaa37.png Lord Bling

    I’m gonna be out of town for work when they’re here in Dallas, goddammit. Oh well. Saw ‘em a couple of years ago here when they played Edgefest. Short set or not, they were amazing.

  • Jonathan

    Music = good. Singer = needs to never sing again, and isn’t worthy of the title.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Forde/666126214 Brandon Forde

    My friend is OBSESSED with that band. To the extent o making me hate them. This is a metal blog not a pop rock blog post about metal. Sil vous plait.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Brown/537636633 Keith Brown

    The way I see it, Muse is gonna be like Led Zeppelin after a while; world famous, huge albums, massively dedicated fanbase and with guaranteed access to the Rock legend.

    They’re getting a reputation like Mastodon is: the next generation-defining band.

    This leads me to think: what if Mastodon and Muse toured together? How awesome would that be?

    • Paul

      I would cut off one of my nuts for a show like that.

  • http://salsicha.wordpress.com Gabriel [Pylsa]

    Thank God I’m not one of these smallmind headbangers, as some of those who commented here are…

  • http://salsicha.wordpress.com Gabriel [Pylsa]

    And Muse btw have been my favorite english non-metal band, but of course they have some metal in thier music. Dudes, just check the riffs in Assassin, Stockholm Syndrome (which has a Dream-Theater-inspired nice riff, although I don’t like DT) and other songs.

    I agree with the one who said the Resistance is sub-par… but yet it’s a good album.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Niccol-Carli/1356993987 Niccolò Carli

    It’s not that they’re not metal, it’s just that they suck. I mean, Erykah Badu is so far from metal but she rules, unlike those idiots in Muse, crappotronic rock to the fullest.

  • James

    I liked these guys before they were kool lol. I saw them live a couple years ago and thought they were great but their latest album is shithouse and i no longer have a need to listen to them ever again.

  • Bliff Curton

    MUSE DESTROYS! EAT IT HATERS!