If you thought Muse's new album Drones was just going to be another collection of songs where Matt Bellamy rails against the establishment, well, you were half wrong and half right. In a new interview with BBC Radio 1 upon the release of the "Psycho" band's latest single "Dead Inside," the Muse frontman explained the "narrative" behind his band's The 2nd Law follow-up.
"The album's got a bit of a narrative going on," Bellamy told Annie Mac before BBC debuted "Dead Inside" earlier this week. "The first song is a sort of jaded song where the person loses hope and therefore becomes kind of vulnerable to darker forces, which happen on the next few songs. He's been drawn into military brainwashing. Then, songs after that are just sort of battling the dark forces that are trying to control him. Eventually, you get to songs like 'Revolt' and 'Defector' where the person fights back and retakes control of himself. After that, it's sort of a rekindling of a love-type situation."
As Drones explores lost love, brainwashing and rallying against the system, the record ends with what Muse does best: "'Globalist' is just a 10 minute prog nightmare. It's about the rise and fall of a dictator," Bellamy said, saying the song hits on some of his favorite topics, including World War III.
As for the album title? According to Bellamy, Drones ties together losing emotional, personal empathy and the rise of modern warfare.
"To me, a drone is a metaphor for what it is to lose modern empathy and start to not really care much about what's going on in the world and going on around you. I think that through modern technology, and obviously through drone warfare in particular, it's possible to actually do quite horrific things by remote control, at a great distance, without actually feeling any of the consequences, or even feeling responsible in some way," he said. "The next step in drones is going to be autonomous drones, which actually make 'kill' decisions themselves; there will be no humans are involved."
Muse's new album Drones will be released on June 9.
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