The energetic, rousing tune harkens back to the attitude-smothered, politically charged music of Muse’s “Uprising” era, accompanied by a music video portraying a people’s revolt against an oppressive authoritarian regime.

Speaking on the concept of their forthcoming record, frontman Matt Bellamy said: “Will Of The People’ is [a] fictional story set in a fictional metaverse on a fictional planet ruled by a fictional authoritarian state run by a fictional algorithm manifested by a fictional data centre running a fictional bank printing a fictional currency controlling a fictional population occupying a fictional city containing a fictional apartment where a fictional man woke up one day and thought ‘fuck this’ ”.

Bellamy went on to say: “We were reaching that point where there was talk about maybe doing a greatest hits album, and we weren’t really in favour of doing that…“So it’s almost like we’ve made a record that is a greatest hits album – of new songs. That means this album might have a metal track on it – and it’s like, the best metal track we’ve ever done. Or there’s a sort of soft ballad, love song and it’s probably the best ballad love song we’ve ever done, and so on…It’s a montage of the best of Muse. It’s a new take on all of those types of genres that we’ve touched on in the past.”

You can pre-order Muse’s forthcoming ninth record Will of the People here, including physical media.

For EU and US fans, Muse have announced a short albeit intimate tour, consisting of dates in Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, New York City, Amsterdam, Paris and Milan. The band said in regard to this small tour: “We had such a good time at our recent charity shows at the Apollo in London last month we wanted to play some of these types of smaller theatres that we hadn’t played for a long time in the U.S and Europe before we head out on tour in 2023”.

More information regarding the forthcoming tour, including tickets, can be viewed here.