26 November 2008
Newsdesk
MUSE today announced that they have already started work on their fifth studio album.
Bassist Chris Wolstenholme confirmed that the rock trio had already begun the follow-up to the 2006 album "Black Holes and Revelations".
Writing on the official Muse website forum, he told fans: "It would be nice to have the album out in the second half of next year but we have not set ourselves any targets. It is more important for us to make the best album we have made to date, and if that means it comes out in 2010 then we don't mind."
Singer and lead guitarist Matt Bellamy added that the new album may also feature the "hardest song" he has ever written.
The songwriter said: "There is a new song in three parts, more of a symphony than a song, which I have been working on sporadically for many years.
"As a large percentage of the composition is orchestral, I have never wanted to collaborate with a string arranger as they may make it 'theirs'.
"So I have been arranging the orchestral elements myself, which is taking a long time. It should hopefully make the next album as the final three tracks."
The band also joked that they were enjoying using their new titles after being given Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Plymouth in September.
After one fan asked if they ever used the line, "trust me, I'm a doctor", drummer Dominic Howard joked: "I use that line every day... I just hope I'm not in the situation where someone takes me seriously and asks me to do something. At that point I will just have to offer a healing drumbeat."
