MUSE RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘CRYOGEN’ OUT NOW!
MUSE RELEASE NEW SINGLE “CRYOGEN”
LISTEN HERE
TENTH ALBUM THE WOW! SIGNAL ARRIVES JUNE 26
PRE-ORDER & PRE-SAVE HERE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR LAUNCHES IN JULY
TICKETS HERE
GRAMMY® Award-winning English rock titans MUSE release their fiery new single, “Cryogen,” out now on Warner Records. Listen HERE. The explosive track is the third taste of the band’s forthcoming tenth studio album, The Wow! Signal, which they announced in a broadcast from space last month and is due to impact Earth on June 26 — pre-order/pre-save HERE. MUSE will then bring the album’s world directly to fans with an extensive North American amphitheater run, starting with a July 2 headliner at Milwaukee’s Summerfest and culminating at Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood Bowl on August 31.Get tickets HERE.
“Cryogen” is urgent and explosive across its entire five minutes. After a squelching intro, MUSE let loose a sky-scraping spiral of guitar before plunging into a roiling pool of smashing drums, grinding bass, and dramatic vocals. Throughout it all, Matt Bellamy paints a vivid picture of a man so deep in the thrall of another that he’s envisioned his tormentor as a frozen moon of Jupiter, and himself as a lost speck on the surface: “Winter’s end, she’s Europa, I’m a cracked interloper / Icicles pierce my heart so cruel and quiet / Loneliness, she left me trembling in a polar desert / Wilderness, I’m breaking.” The falsetto-streaked chorus spells out the narrator’s doom: “Cryogen, I can never cry again / Cryogen, I’m freezing over.”
Despite the frigid theme, “Cryogen” is all fireworks, all the time. The song was written and produced by MUSE with Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon, Blink-182) — who performs keys and additional guitar in the MUSE live band — with additional production from Aleks von Korff. That’s the same team behind March’s hopeful lead single “Be With You,” a powerful swirl of driving electronica and searing stadium rock that DORK predicted will “undoubtedly become a euphoric festival favorite in the summers to come.”
MUSE literally launched “Be With You” from space for their The Wow! Signal announcement (see a snippet HERE), beaming back footage of the music video streaming on a specially designed tablet 20 miles up into the atmosphere. The cinematic visual directed by Nico Paolillo (Deafheaven, BAD OMENS) and starring Ella Balinska (The Occupant, Resident Evil) offers instant immersion into the universe of the album. Listen HERE and watch HERE. While the announcement was widely covered by the likes of Pitchfork, NME, Consequence, Kerrang!, and Billboard, “Be With You” earned 3 million global streams in the first week and became the #1 Most Added at Alternative Radio, where it has since climbed to #9.
Following the album news, MUSE made a grand live return to London with a special performance at the 5,000-capacity O2 Academy Brixton, a room they hadn’t played since 2001. The show won rave reviews from outlets including The Times (five stars), Kerrang! (“MUSE don’t miss”), and NME, who noted that fans had camped out overnight to secure a spot close to the stage. The publication also turned in an early review of “Cryogen,” which MUSE debuted that night: “A blast of classic MUSE harking back to their ’00s days with wailing riffs, [an] arena-destroying chorus, and painting an apocalyptic sci-fi landscape.”
MUSE also performed fan-favorite The Wow! Signal track “Unravelling,” which they released last year to instant acclaim and a flurry of album rumors. With arpeggiated synths that crash into a colossal wall of barbed riffs, the single racked up praise from outlets including Rolling Stone (“transcendent”) Guitar World (“endlessly gratifying”), and DIY Magazine, who lovingly called the song “balls-to-the-wall maximalist.”
The music and visuals that MUSE have released so far are revealing the new album’s themes bit by bit. The Wow! Signal takes its name from one of the most compelling interstellar mysteries of the last century: a powerful 72-second radio burst detected in 1977 originating from the constellation Sagittarius with a bandwidth and intensity that suggested a possible extraterrestrial source. The astronomer who discovered the anomaly famously circled the now-iconic sequence “6EQUJ5” and wrote “WOW!” on the printout beside it — giving the signal its name and cementing its place in scientific and pop-culture lore.
With every additional transmission from The Wow! Signal, we get a stronger sense of the forces powering MUSE’s new era: a mix of cosmic mystery, existential hope, and the exhilarating possibility of contact with something far greater than ourselves. Connect with MUSE at one of the dates below.
MUSE – The Wow! Signal Tour Dates
Jul 02 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest ^
Jul 05 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater * ~
Jul 07 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center * ~
Jul 10 – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 11 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center * ~
Jul 13 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre * ~
Jul 15 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre * ~
Jul 17 – Québec, QC @ Festival d’été de Québec ^
Jul 18 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center * ~
Jul 22 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center * ~
Jul 24 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Albany Med Health System at SPAC * ~
Jul 25 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach Theater * ~
Jul 28 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion * ~
Jul 29 – Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion * ~
Aug 10 – Charlotte, NC @ Truliant Amphitheater – ~
Aug 12 – Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 14 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion – ~
Aug 15 – Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater – ~
Aug 18 – Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater – ~ +
Aug 20 – West Valley City, UT @ Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 22 – Ridgefield, WA @ Cascades Amphitheater – ~
Aug 23 – Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 26 – Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 27 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 29 – Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre – ~
Aug 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl – ~
^ festival
* support from Bloc Party
– support from Portugal. The Man
~ support from The Temper Trap
+ non-Live Nation date
MUSE, The Wow! Signal
1. “The Dark Forest”
2. “Nightshift Superstar”
3. “Shimmering Scars”
4. “Cryogen”
5. “Be With You”
6. “Hexagons”
7. “The Sickness In You & I”
8. “Unravelling”
9. “Hush”
10. “Space Debris”

















