Muse: “We took inspiration from Skrillex”

Photo by Debi Del Grande

We went to see Skrillex in Camden around October. We went, Fuck, its so heavy, loved it. I was like a full metal gig, they had circles of death, people were moshing, I hadnt seen a reaction like that to electronic music before. We took inspiration and came up with The 2nd Law: Unsustainable.

Thats drummer Dom Howard speaking to NMEon Muses sixth studio album The 2nd Law.Singer and guitarist Matt Bellamy followed up:

Some of that hard dubstep and brostep coming from America, is capturing the imagination. The moshpit has moved from guitars and gone towards the laptop, so with that song were trying to see if we can challenge the laptop. We created something that was dubsteppy but we wanted to see if we could do it with real... [via Consequence Of Sound]