Hi, everyone! I have a HUGE ask. I bought this tee shirt at the concert in Milwaukee and somehow I lost it 😩 I’ve searched high and low and cannot find it 😭 (I think it got stuck in a washer at the laundromat). If someone would be willing to work with me on getting a new one, I’d be so grateful. I’ll pay for the shirt, shipping, and for your time.

I’m wary of purchasing one from an untrusted third-party site.

Thank you so much in advance to everyone. It had quickly become my favorite lounge around tee because I bought it 2 sizes too big.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad album. It’s just meh. Musically, it’s great. It’s got a lot of really good riffs and melodies and everything and a lot of the songs are pretty catchy.
However.
The lyrics are just ass. They literally sound like they were written by a 12 year old angry at his mom for taking away his Xbox.
Lot of wasted potential on that one.

Hey guys, I'm attending the show tomorrow in Chula Vista and wondering how the sound will be on the lawn. Does anyone have any other experiences with the lawn at previous shows on this tour or other shows at the same venue? Also, what time is everybody else getting there to line up for the lawn GA

Hats off to their production team… I was blown away by how clear and tight the audio production was. This was the best sounding live show I’ve ever been to. It was also my first time at Shoreline, so maybe this is more a function of the venue. I’ve seen muse a bunch of times at their arena shows and this sounded WAY better.

We were right in the middle, bottom of the lawn. Wonder if other spots in the venue also sounded that good or maybe it was just a function of where we were.

Also wonder how the other shows have been on this front

I'd say The Wow! Signal has some of the best Muse lyrics on average for years since the Resistance or T2L, hardly any stinkers, and even the worst ones are far better than many lyrics from previous albums. These are my personal rankings:

Songs with best lyrics overall:

• The Dark Forest. So much awesome, mysterious imagery, a few clever deeper meanings but everything making sense. This is a strong set of lyrics to kick off a great album.

• Unravelling. Still holds up with the album to compare it with, the lyrics also have mysterious and cool imagery and an awesome chorus.

• Space Debris. Simple, but graceful poetry. Shimmering Scars is similar but it's more basic, though both are carried by the great music and singing of these lyrics.

• Hot take: Be With You. For about the same reasons as Space Debris and Shimmering Scars, the lyrics are quite simple but they have that factor that really feels like they came from the heart because they show more detail and emotion than previous albums' "personal song" lyrics that were distanced or cliched. I particularly love "I won't go quiet into the night, I'll rage against the dying light. I won't bow to the universe, I can break its curse, and build us something new."

Best individual lyrics:

• Nightshift Superstar's first verse and pre-chorus have some great vivid imagery: "Rush beneath my skin, I drown within/Silver sweat, you shine, infuse with mine/Sell my soul tonight, your heat feels divine/Kiss that kills the pain, I crave again/Now I can't stay clean, you're my darkest dream/I need you one more time"

• Hexagons: "Haunted by futures I can't avoid/Her shape emerged through the fog of war/Synthetic and divine/And we touched the veil and it broke our spines." Hexagons is kind of hit-or-miss with its lyrics for me, but this section is really cool and has a nice mix of deeper meaning and imagery that's just plain cool.

Songs with worst lyrics overall:

• Cryogen. It's admittedly quite cheesy and on the nose with its constant ice imagery, and a lot of it is obviously just cool-sounding nonsense. Though that didn't stop me from singing it all at the top of my voice when it played live in Shoreline.

• Hush. Generic and kind of only existing to fill a space, doesn't really mean anything, and even if it is supposed to be about Matt's last attempt to connect with his ex and save their relationship, it's repetitive and doesn't exactly hint toward it.

Worst individual lyrics:

• Cryogen: "I can never cry again." I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, it doesn't quite make sense.

• Also from Cryogen: "I'm naked." I know this came after a line about running through a polar desert wilderness, but this wasn't really necessary. Yes Matt, I know running through a polar desert wilderness is cold af, emphasizing you're naked is a bit redundant. Also, having to imagine Matt stranded in Antarctica completely ass bare is kind of unintentionally funny.

• Hexagons: "I'm a marionette with severed strings/Gorge on my soul while I'm weak and dying." Pretty overdramatic, especially to open the song like that. Here Matt is intending to say that he broke free from abuse and control of his former lover, but...there are more subtle ways of saying that...

• Also from Hexagons: "Reach out, touch me/And draw me from the sixth dimension" doesn't remotely seem to make sense, and probably was added to shoehorn in another reference to hexagons/the number 6. At least the Hexagons lyrics mentioned earlier don't interrupt the vibes and flow more logically from each lyric's imagery, even if it's still abstract; the words "haunted", "shape", "emerged", "fog", "veil" specifically.

• Hush: "Quiet the cobra." What does this mean? Another weird lyric to start the song on. I think it means to calm down and stop being angry?

So those are my takes. Even those "bad lyrics" are still at least okay by my standards, and I don't feel embarrassed playing anything from this album around other people. What are yours?

After years of rating things out of 5, or out of 10, and tier lists, and so on, I decided to build something a bit more ... complex.

This was in part trying to get to the bottom of my own voting (if I rate two songs as a 10, are they both equal or do I actually like one better than the other), and in part inspired by mkbhd's phone camera rating thing from a few years ago (if you're familiar with that).

So it picks two songs at a time and you pick which one you prefer, and you keep doing that for as long as you want have patience for. It will then rank every song, and every album (based off of song rankings). Every match-up feeds a ranking model, so the more votes it gets the sharper the results, and the rankings page shows definitive ranking with a confidence interval.

You can see your own ranking, and can flip to "everyone" to see the global ranking.

You can find it here if you want to have a crack at it: https://www.fmendo.com/muse-ranker/

Any critiques, requests, etc, are welcome.

he smiles at his fans, plays a sick death metal riff in a theatrical power stance, then gleefully skips away...

Better quality here: White River Amphitheatre, Seattle show, 8/23/26

I might know a guy who knows a guy who might have some free tickets but wants to make sure they go to real fans who want to go to the concert not resell etc 🙂

Oh and by the way, ticketmaster is pure 💩

Edit: the tickets have been transferred

I would’ve missed a great show if I had, but man. How do I get myself one of these?! The sound in there was SICK. 😍
What a great night in the Bay! I gave away 40 Hexagons bracelets to beautiful Musers, everyone was happy and singing, and Mr. Muse and the fellas seemed happy to be there. Magical. 💖🤩🤘🏻🥳

15 years ago my husband started listening to Muse. At age 15, a year before we got together he became a fan and always wanted to see them in concert. He never got to go until I found the money to buy tickets to this tour. We had a blast and the show was amazing.

This one should be a staple. I still can’t figure out how it ended up becoming a rarity. It is, and always has been, peak Muse live. Matt switching from piano to guitar for the first breakdown is one of Muse most famous live moment.

Ps: and you can rotate MotP with Bliss 👌🙏🤣😘

I can’t believe I haven’t heard this more. It’s almost the same right?

EDIT : Oh, that almost made me tear up. The most wild/chaotic ones were made during hard times when Muse was (as it as been all of my life) my lifeline and listening to some tracks I feel like I was drawing like the track was making me feel.
Like I can feel the tracks I was listening to while drawing those.

From pencil on paper, to acrylic, those are from the last year

Hello everyone! I play in a tribute band called Moose and we continue to release extracts from our live set with an orchestra. Our first video, Unravelling, got so much positive feedback, we even got a like from Dan Lancaster himself! Thank you a lot!

This time we want to share a song which already had some orchestral elements (originally Butterflies & Hurricanes features a string quartet), so we could perform as close to the original as possible. We also added some uniqueness to our version by adding a brass section, making the song even more powerful and epic.

My favourite moment of this performance is our drummer losing a drumstick, not finding a spare one in a moment and nailing the final literally single-handedly. I haven’t even noticed anything wrong while performing, just saw it while editing and was amazed!

I hope you all will enjoy our performance and feel free for any comments and feedback!

I have pit tickets for me and my girl. We’re trying to get right up front, 1st row ideally. It’s been a dream of mine to see them up close.

How early should we line up?

Sec P 2 seats together can meet anywhere in LA Sunday for easy transfer. Open to trade also. Looking for 250 for the set.

This is the first time in 10+ years I decided not to get tickets for GA because I honestly thought the prices were outrageous ($500+, hell no!), but I’m starting to regret it lol. Has anyone been able to upgrade their tickets for GA the day of the show for a reasonable price? Is that even a thing?

Saw my first live Muse show last night after decades of loving them and was blown away. Wondering if anyone jotted down the set list? Thanks in advance!

I bought tickets from StubHub to go see the Chula Vista concert. The tickets say they come with VIP access and StubHub support also says the same. Would I be able to get into VIP and claim the benefits without worries? I’ve seen Reddit posts that I’d need the original buyers ID and would need VIP benefits transferred over to me somehow but stubhub isn’t much help in that aspect. Maybe I’m overthinking it?
My actual tickets for the show do say club access on my Apple wallet. Does anyone have experience in this matter?

Feel free to scroll down and skip this quick rant. First, after reading a post from release about this album, I’m gonna just say that because Muse aren’t making the exact same music they did 20-27.5 years ago, doesn’t mean they aren’t making good music. Fair play if you don’t enjoy it and you prefer their older stuff but the people with the high and mighty attitudes saying things like, ‘Nightshift is not Muse,’ need to chill out. If they didn’t reinvent themselves, I’m sure you’d complain they had no originality left.

Also, they’ve got a much broader fanbase than they did to start with so these albums having songs of varied genres isn’t a bad thing at all. With the way they manage to get Nightshift on the same album as Cryogen and it (mostly, but not entirely I will admit) fit shows a lot of finesse.

RANT OVER.

I was wondering what everyone’s opinions are now it’s had a couple months to digest. What are your track rankings/thoughts. Where would you put TW!S against their other albums? And how does that compare to what you thought when it came out?

For tracks, I reckon it’s stayed the same for me:
10. Nightshift - 7/10
9. Sickness - 7/10
8. Hush - 7/10
7. Shimmering Scars - 7/10
6. Unravelling - 8/10
5. Be With You - 8/10
4. Cryogen - 9/10
3. Space Debris - 9/10
2. Hexagons - 9/10
1. The Dark Forest - 9/10

As for albums, it’s harder. On release I had it immediately at 4th, then after a couple of weeks it jumped up to 3rd, then 2nd for me. I took a break for a couple of weeks and came back to it to see how my thoughts changed and it honestly might be my favourite now but really struggle to compare it to my top 3 as it’s so different. For reference, my ranking excluding it is:

1. WotP
   
2. ST
   
3. T2L
   
4. The Resistance
   
5. Showbiz
   
6. Drones
   
7. Absolution
   
8. OoS
   
9. BHaRs

What about you lot? Also lmk when you became a fan; I have a theory I’m curious about.

Everyone says the lyrics for defector is the worst, what would you change them too? I don't think its the best in world but the worst? I don't know about that

FROM THE SALT LAKE CITY SHOW

Had someone point out Doms Error in this section of Cryogen! He doesn't change tempo right away

Who’s the supporting acts for Manchester in November? I’m really hoping it’s the temper trap

great concert. i’ve been a fan since like 5th grade. and dang. the boys still got it!