Muse have announced that their eighth studio album, Simulation Theory, will be released on November 9 through Warner Music. The eleven-track record was produced by the band, along with several award-winning producers, including Rich Costey, Mike Elizondo, Shellback and Timbaland. Each of the album’s songs will be accompanied by a video. The album is available to pre-order now.
Recent singles Something Human, Thought Contagion and Dig Down, as well as brand new track The Dark Side, are all available immediately as a download when you pre-order the album on DSPs. The Dark Side is instantly recognisable as a classic Muse track; featuring Matt Bellamy’s unmistakable soaring vocals and blistering guitars, and the driving rhythm section of Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard that have become a hallmark of Muse’s stadium-filling sound.
Simulation Theory will be released in three formats: Standard (11 tracks), Deluxe (16 tracks), and Super Deluxe (21 tracks). The expanded tracklisting features an acoustic gospel version of Dig Down, The UCLA Bruin Marching Band feature on Pressure, a live version of Thought Contagion, acoustic versions of several tracks, including Something Human and “Alternate Reality” versions of Algorithm and The Dark Side. For specific format track-listings, see below.
Artwork for the album was illustrated by digital artist Kyle Lambert, who has done the poster art for Stranger Things, Jurassic Park and many other films. The Super Deluxe cover was illustrated by Paul Shipper, whose previous work includes Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Avengers: Affinity War, amongst others.
Simulation Theory follows Muse’s 2015 album Drones. Since then, the internationally acclaimed trio have toured extensively, taking the ground-breaking Drones World Tour to fans across the globe. This concert was filmed and released in cinemas worldwide for One Night Only in July 2018.
Muse is Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme. Their last studio album, Drones, was released in June 2015 and debuted at #1 in 21 countries around the world, including Australia. Drones was also their first #1 album in the United States. The album went on to win the Grammy Award for “Best Rock Album” in February 2016. Since forming in 1994, Muse have released seven studio albums, selling in excess of 20 million albums worldwide. In Australia, they have had three #1 albums – Black Holes and Revelations, The Resistance and Drones – while Drones’ predecessor The 2nd Law debuted at #2 on the ARIA chart.
Widely recognised as one of the best live bands in the world, Muse have won numerous music awards including two Grammy Awards, an American Music Award, five MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, ten NME Awards and seven Q Awards, amongst others. They were last in Australia in December 2017.
Simulation Theory Standard Album CD & Vinyl:
1. Algorithm
2. The Dark Side
3. Pressure
4. Propaganda
5. Break It To Me
6. Something Human
7. Thought Contagion
8. Get Up and Fight
9. Blockades
10. Dig Down
11. The Void
Bonus tracks available on deluxe editions:
12. Algorithm (Alternate Reality Version)
13. The Dark Side (Alternate Reality Version)
14. Propaganda (Acoustic)
15. Something Human (Acoustic)
16. Dig Down (Acoustic Gospel Version)
