Muse Biography

Biography

muses from Greek mythology. Confidently commenced their journey through a number of performances at the local venue for some time, the band gradually was able to draw quite large following that in turn led them to come into the attention of Dennis Smith, the owner of Sawmills studio and Dangerous Records label. Not only offered them a chance to record their materials, the man also willingly set up a few showcases in U.S. to ultimately get them signed under Maverick Records in 1998, much to the group's delight. Other deals soon followed with Motors in Germany, Naive in France, and notably, Mushroom Records in England through which they happily saw their full-length debut album, “Showbiz”, touching the U.K. market in 1999 after the releases of their two EPs entitled “Muse EP” and “Muscle Museum EP.”

Produced by John Leckie, who previously had been involved in the making of Radiohead's “The Bends”, the LP's outcome was more than satisfying indeed as it managed to enter the top 30 of U.K. album chart while generating some modest hits like “Sunburn”, “Unintended”, “Cave”, and “Uno.” On the other hand, however, comparisons inevitably were drawn to Radiohead thereafter, leading to an accusation that Muse ...

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was only a mere copycat in conclusion. Going unaffected, the band kept moving on their path to hold tour around the world which ran successfully for one and half year before coming up with their sophomore effort, “Origin of Symmetry”, in 2001. More expanded also experimental than its predecessor, the response wonderfully was positive so that the album really did not encounter much difficulty to break worldwide sale above 1.3 million copies, thanks to its fabulous tracks of “Plug in Baby”, “New Born”, “Bliss”, plus “Hyper Music.”

Though already gained considerable popularity in Europe, Muse was still unable to make sound in the States, and realized this fact, they thus joined forces with U.S. producer Rich Costey to work on their next album, “Absolution.” The decision was delightfully proven right for the record, released by March 2004 in the country, amazingly made its way to the first rank of Billboard's Top Heatseekers besides spawned two top 10 Modern Rock Tracks hits namely “Hysteria (I Want It Now)” and “Time Is Running Out.” In the meantime, greater accomplishment was scored in U.K when it topped the number one spot on the country's album chart to then direct the band to obtain ...