Product Description

'Black Holes And Revelations' delivers a stylistic overhaulfrom Devon's premiere epic space rock outfit Muse. The follow up 2003's smash 'Absolution' looks to merge Matt Bellamy's trademark powerful riffs with dance beats to produce an upbeat album with influences moving towards Prince and Franz Ferdinand. Co-produced by Rich Costey (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave) and including the single 'Supermassive BlackHole'.

Track Listing

1. Take a Bow
2. Starlight
3. Supermassive Black Hole
4. Map of the Problematique
5. Soldier's Poem
6. Invincible
7. Assassin
8. Exo-Politics
9. City of Delusion
10. Hoodoo
11. Knights of Cydonia

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145696 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Amazon.co.uk Review
Black Holes and Revelations finds Muse finally achieving their full potential, producing an album that is their biggest yet. And for a band that was responsible for the grandiose Origin of the Symmetry, that's no mean feat. In a time when lo-fi and acoustic acts are devouring the charts, Muse are resolutely swimming against the tide. Black Holes and Revelations is an epic album, and it sounds huge--listening to it, it's difficult to remember that Muse are just a trio. This is a band who enter a studio determined to get their money's worth--it wouldn't be a surprise to hear a kitchen sink clanging away in the background. In the hands of a lesser band, Black Holes and Revelations would sound either ironic or silly, with songs like "Starlight" sounding like a beefed-up ELO track, right down to its lyrics about spaceships. And that's not the only 1970's British rock band that's referenced here: by the end of "Soldier's Poem", you'll swear that Freddie Mercury and Queen are providing the harmonies. And the influence of Queen sticks around right through the energetic rocker "Assassin". Black Holes and Revelations wears the comparison well--this is an arena-rock album, carefully constructed by a band who by having no fear of the absurd, manage to transcend it. Quite simply, this album rocks. --Robert Burrow

Customer Reviews

A Fantastic Album
It just amazes me each time I listen to this album. The enormous talent. The versatility. The sheer inventiveness.

It follows a succession of albums that have got better and better. I was so taken aback by Origin of Symmentry and when I saw Muse live I was so speechless at how talented Matthew Bellamy is. But this album.....

It's everything about it. You can hear the orchestral basis for so many of these songs translated into unbelievable howling guitars. The powerful and poignant lyrics. The inventiveness.

See them live when you can and see how amazing this band is. They are incredible.

Awesome!
A friend borrowed the Muse albums to me as he thought they'd be my type of music, I listened to the early albums and decided although they were okay, they weren't really inspiring enough for me to buy them for myself. But when I got to Black Holes and Revelations it was quite a different story. This album reawakened something within me for music that had been longing to dance. I absolutely love it, I'm not normally the type of person to play an album more than once in a row, but this album I can put on repeat and listen to all day long, literally! Brrrriiiillliaaaant.....!

average album average band
Muse are a dumbed down, less talented and less successful version of Radiohead created by their record label, stylists, and PR men to satisfy the markets need for a user friendly, commercial pop-rock band. This was a market gap they filled rather well in their first two albums. A pop rock band, with tunes easy to sing along too, guitar riffs simple enough for fans to learn and loud enough for the head bangers. As muse didn't and where never intended to break any new ground or be innovative, fans could be sure their mates would also like them.

The pretentions of prog rock and musical innovation came later and where largely the product of muses fans desire to feel different and more rebelious. To feel like they where part of something that was changing music in their generation. When your looking for something you usually find it whether its there or not, and muses fans started to see them as this progressive rock band with a new and distinct approach to music. Unfortunately Muse never went along with it and carried on making pop rock albums that got them on top of the pops.

Anyone who calls them prog rock is seriously nuts or hasn't heard prog rock before. And take a look at these bone headed lyrics.

Come ride with me
Through the veins of history
I'll show you how god
Falls asleep on the job

And how can we win
When fools can be kings
Don't waste your time
Or time will waste you

lol - maybe when i was five.