It's going to be a supermassive year
Muse have confirmed that they’ll be playing just a handful of shows and hopefully releasing a new album later in 2018.
Frontman Matt Bellamy and drummer Dom Howard shared a video detailing the band’s plans for the year. With a short run of festival dates announced for the summer, it doesn’t look like many more are on the way – but their album should hopefully be out this year.
“So our plan for 2018 is to make a bunch of new songs, and probably a new album as well,” said Bellamy. “We’ll put out a couple of singles and we’ll do like five or six shows – some big festivals in the US that we’ve never done before.
“We’re very excited to play Bonnaroo, BottleRock in Napa Valley and Carolina Rebellion.”
Speaking to NME earlier this year, the band also opened up about their future.
“We’re going to do the biggest tour and just blow people’s minds with stuff they’ve never seen before,” frontman Matt Bellamy told NME.
“We’re going to come up with something that no one’s ever seen before. We’re always interested in the latest technology and what’s cutting edge, so we’re always thinking of the new thing that nobody’s ever used before in a concert. And we found something and we’re going to use that.”
“We’ve been working on a lot of new music,” Bellamy added, “we’re going to release more new songs this year, working towards an album which will come out sometime soon.”
The band has confirmed that the project was still very much a ‘work in progress‘.
Muse on tour
The band’s upcoming 2018 tour dates so far are below.
APRIL
20 – Monterrey, Mexico: Pa’l Norte
MAY
6 – Charlotte, North Carolina : Carolina Rebellion
25 MAY 2018 – Napa, California : BottleRock
JUNE
2 – Nürburg, Germany: Rock am Ring
3 – Nuremberg, Germany: Rock im Park
8 -Manchester, Tennessee: Bonnaroo
23 – Lisbon, Portugal: Rock In Rio
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