The Resistance (album)
Occupation
- Vocals, guitar, keyboard, piano: Matthew Bellamy
- E -Bass: Chris Wolstenholme
- Drums: Dominic Howard
The Resistance is the fifth studio album by the alternative rock band Muse. It was published in 2009 and in 2011 was awarded the Grammy Award in 2011 for Best Rock Album.
Background
Already in 2007, during the tour to Black Holes and Revelations first guesses about the successor to the album were made. In October of the same year reported the music magazine NME, Muse were planning an electronic album and the band already have lots of ideas. After the tour ends were spreading new rumors regularly, often including issues such as the inclusion of a 15-minute space-rock solo or even the complete departure from the traditional album format and publication of a series of individual singles. On May 22, NME announced that the band had begun writing songs for the new album, citing frontman Matthew Bellamy with the words. " What will come out of did is impossible to say" ( German: It is impossible to say what will come of it. )
The idea to bring out no ordinary album more, drummer Dominic Howard explained with the fact that it was made possible by the development of technologies to publish music on more natural ways, eg directly after its completion. However, rumors have been a release of an album as a free digital downloads, similar to Radiohead's In Rainbows, denied. To have announced in mid 2008 Muse wrote a number of new songs that fans but warned " not too soon to expect a new album ," bassist Christopher Wolstenholme as explained. We also do not believe already have material for picking, but would begin in the same year in order to advance the development process. At the end of the conjectures commented Bellamy to a 15 -minute space-rock solo, there would be a three-part song, the more of a symphony was approaching, on which he worked intermittently for many years.
Simultaneously, the band announced to have started with the recordings and to strive for the publication about the end of 2009. January 2009 announced an "insider with contacts to Warner " Muse would release the album in September and go on tour. In March Bellamy explained that the album is half done and described it as symphonic. Subsequently, the band released three videos from the studio, which contained, among other things, a recording session in a toilet. In the same month, both plans for the tour in the fall were confirmed when announced concerts with U2 in the U.S., which suggested that the recordings were inclined towards the end.
The lyrics of the album are greatly influenced by George Orwell's 1984, which, for example, in the songs or Resistance United States of Eurasia ( Collateral Damage ) shows.
Publication
The album title The Resistance was announced on May 22 via Twitter. The first song title United States of Eurasia was confirmed by the website of the band, after fans had this from a photo, on which Matthew Bellamy holds Sheet music of the song, deciphered. Shortly thereafter, Dominic Howard stated on his MySpace page The Resistance will hopefully come out in a few months and the band have just mixed some songs that sounded " wicked" ( roughly "full crass "). There would be up to the publication still some work but the band would come good progress. On June 1, Radio 1, the BBC announced that it would soon launch a promotional tour for The Resistance held their concert dates were later listed on the website of the band.
On 16 June 2009 September 14, 2009 was confirmed as the release date. In a Twitter update of 23 June Wolstenhome announced the band had completed the album and had it mastered only in New York. The track list of the album was announced on July 3 on the day, piece by piece on Twitter. The band announced on July 14, also via Twitter that the first single will be Uprising.
As of 17 August 2009, iTunes 30 seconds of each song to listen to equipment available.
On September 7, Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 initiated the muse night, during which he Undisclosed Desires equal to two times in a row played since no one had responded via Twitter to it. He also played a 30-minute live recording of the band, which previously contained at a concert in Teignmouth, the hometown of the band was created from the new album and the songs The Resistance, Undisclosed Desires, United States of Eurasia and Unatural Selection at the weekend.
On September 9, it was announced The Resistance will be available for purchase from the iTunes Store is one of the first iTunes LPs. This should be the album itself and some extras like an animated booklet and video backgrounds included.
On September 11, managed the complete album by sales Error downloading pages in advance illegally came into possession of the album into the network causing some Internet users. It was the Benelux countries, Australia, Italy and Switzerland, published on 11 September 2009 in Germany. In New Zealand and Europe, the album was released on September 14 in the U.S. and Canada on September 15th, in Japan on September 16 and in Brazil on 17 September 2009. The album could be bought already before the official release date on iTunes and was from 10 September on several websites for pre- listening available. The Resistance was developed in -house production between 2008 and 2009 and was mixed by Mark Stent. It is sold on the band's own label Helium 3 and Warner. The first single Uprising was released on August 3, 2009.
Singles
The singles were:
- Uprising (2009)
- Undisclosed Desires (2009)
- Resistance (2010)