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Earlier this summer Muse teased fans with an album trailer for The 2nd Law that offered a short glimpse of what appeared to be a dubstep inspired song. The band even confirmed that the new disc, which comes out October 2, was inspired by Skrillex. Well now the band has unleashed the full version of the album trailer, which it turns out, is just part of record cut “Unsustainable.”
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Drummer Dom Howard told NME earlier this year, “We went to see Skrillex in Camden around October. We went, ‘Fuck, it’s so heavy,’ loved it. I was like a full metal gig, they had circles of death, people were moshing, I hadn’t seen a reaction like that to electronic music before. We took inspiration and came up with [the song] ‘The 2nd Law: Unsustainable.’” Singer Matt Bellamy added, “Some of that hard dubstep and brostep coming from America, is capturing the imagination. The moshpit has moved from guitars and gone towards the laptop, so with that song we’re trying to see if we can challenge the laptop. We created something that was dubsteppy but we wanted to see if we could do it with real instruments. We wanted to ask, ‘Can rock bands compete with what these guys are doing?’”
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Well, now we have something tangible to pin these comments to. And it’s pretty bizarre. The video for the track is an extended version of the trailer, which features strange news footage, a robot and a lot of electronic sounds. Watch below:
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So, yep, it’s a dubstep number. That part is clear. But where does Muse figure into this song? The epic beginning sounds like the rock band, but the rest of it seems like an experiment that might not belong on an actual album. What do you think? Tell us in the comments.
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For more from Muse head to their Myspace Radio channel here.
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