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SLIPKNOT: Mayhem With The Masked Metallers

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Hustler September 2005  In the late "90s, Iowa-based Slipknot exploded on the scene with a theatrical sense rivaled by the ferocity of their hard-hitting music. Adopting a variety of chaotic, spiky masks, the nine-member metal outfit carved a name for themselves as one of the premier live acts.  A few million albums sold and a few hundred thousand miles later, Slipknot is back. The group's latest Roadrunner Records release is titled Vol. 3. [The Subliminal Verses] , and as usual the gruelling tour schedule will take them around the globe.  Via phone, HUSTLER Entertainment Editor Tom Farrell caught up with drummer Joey Jordison, who talked about life on the road, burning hotels, groupies with penchants for knives and masks and what makes Slipknot so special. HUSTLER: What do you guys do to keep yourselves amused? You figure you got nine guys with masks, a tour bus... JOEY: When you've been on the road for so long, you just come up with stupid shit, and you start getting a ...
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Muse take on Celine Dion

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NME 19th October 2002 Muse could sue Celine Dion for stealing their name. The band claim the Canadian diva has broken trademark rules by calling her Las Vegas show, "Muse". The band own the American performing rights to their name, which means no other musical show, product, artist or group can be called "Muse". The band have reportedly turned down an offer of £32,000 for Dion to use the name.  Link to original article Index of all Muse articles
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Muse at Olympia in October

Leinster Leader  Thursday 7th September 2000  Muse who played a storming 'wake the crowd' set at Slane at the weekend return to these shores for a gig on 30th October at Dublin's Olympia Theatre as part of the Pet Sounds* series.   They re-release a remixed version of the single 'Muscle Museum' on 29th September which includes a superb Timo Maas dance remix of previous single 'Sunburn' Notes 'Pet Sounds Series': ' Absolution ' would be mixed on the same mixing deck the Beach Boys used for their album ' Pet Sounds ' in 2003. Link to original article (subscription required to view) Index of all Muse articles
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Essential Listening: Muse - Origin Of Symmetry

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Total Guitar July 2001 - Issue No #85 Not necessarily the best albums of the month but the one's that'll be the most talked about. Hear them or be a social leper... Who are they? Feisty Devon rock trio with up-and-coming player Matt Bellamy on guitar duties. Not the new Radiohead, in case you were wondering.  Any good? Grandiose and at times overblown - whilst also being much heavier than their debut - Muse's second album is a loud and proud beast, self assured and making one huge statement. If any of their contemporaries had tried to pull off something like this, it wouldn't have worked. But Muse have never just been any other band and they've definitely tried to create a rock epic on Space Dementia , there's even shades of Queen. Origin firmly sets the band apart from their indie rock fraternity, and marks out Muse as a band of considerable ambition.  Must hear Recent singles New Born and Plug In Baby are monster guitar tracks, and check out Citizen Arrange...
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(MUSE) Pinkpop 2004 interview (transcription)

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"The origin of Muse" DOMINIC: Well, no we had..the bands we were in before Muse had various names, but the three of us were called "Rocket Baby Dolls*", for one gig. But that wasn't really a proper band, it was more a kind of vibe that we just threw together for one gig where we just kind of dressed up as goths, and played some weird, trashy kind of punky stuff. We smashed up all the gear just for one gig, and after that we kind of stopped and thought. It was actually a Battle Of The Bands which we won because of it, but after that we kind of stopped, got rid of the make-up, the back combed hair, and the Cure look (chuckles), and changed the name to "Muse" as well at that point. We kind of wrote some of our own songs, took the whole thing a bit more seriously in some kind of way.  "What inspired Muse?" DOMINIC: I don't know. You know, it was just kind of the music that we came across. It was the music that we felt most passion about. It w...
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OFF THE RECORD: Muse's Dominic Howard - Black Holes And Revelations

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Modern Drummer January 2008 England's Muse soars into rock's upper echelon on the strength of their biggest-selling album to date: Black Holes And Revelations. Buoyed by major airplay and touring, the band has moved beyond early comparisons with Radiohead and Queen to forge their own musical identity. For his part, drummer Dominic Howard gives the band whatever it requires, from delicate brush work to explosive progtype fills. Though he can play simply when called upon, Howard has enough cool grooves and complicated riffs to warrant a good look in this month's Off The Record. "Take A Bow" The album's opening track is a scathing political indictment that builds to an explosive climax. When Dominic's groove enters, the slow 12/8 tempo allows the drummer to drop in 64th-note rolls and energetic snare/kick tradeoffs.  As the song nears its finish, Howard adds more bass drum and snare notes to his splashy ride beat, building intensity right to the end.  "M...
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Muse: Black Holes And Revelations

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Modern Drummer January 2007 (Four stars out of five) Muse's Black Holes And Revelations is, in fact, a revelation.  The English trio plays to packed arenas in Europe, but their name has always elicited a response akin to "Don't they kinda sound like Radiohead?" when dropped in the States. No more. Black Holes. .. is explosive, bordering on schizophrenic. That's not a bad thing when man (drummer DOMINIC HOWARD) and machine can meld for alt-disco pulses ("Map Of The Problematique," "Knights Of Cydonia") that are powerfully delivered and sonically flawless. Even when the intensity level drops, like in the delicate ballad "Soldier's Poem" (with solid, subtle brushwork from Howard), the originality doesn't suffer. Link to article Index of all Muse articles
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