{"id":672253,"date":"2026-07-03T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672253\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:26:09","slug":"muses-matt-bellamy-talks-plans-to-mark-the-20th-anniversary-of-black-holes-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672253\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse’s Matt Bellamy talks plans to mark the 20th anniversary of ‘Black Holes & Revelations’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muse<\/a> frontman Matt Bellamy<\/a> has spoken to NME about plans for the band to celebrate their huge fourth album \u2018Black Holes & Revelations<\/a>\u2018 \u2013 which was released 20 years ago today (Friday July 3).<\/p>\n

The Devonshire space rock trio\u2019s 2006 album was their second to reach Number One in the UK and their first and only to receive a Mercury Music Prize nomination. It contained the huge singles \u2018Supermassive Black Hole\u2019, \u2018Starlight\u2019 and \u2018Knights Of Cydonia\u2019, found the band established fame in the US, saw them top the bill at Reading & Leeds for the first time<\/a> and become the first British band to headline the rebuilt Wembley Stadium where they played two nights in 2007 to later be immortalised on the \u2018HAARP\u2019 live album and DVD. \u2018BlacK Holes & Revalations\u2019 has sold more than 5million copies worldwide to date.<\/p>\n

In a 9\/10 review of the album<\/a>, NME concluded: \u201cMuse have made a ridiculous, overblown, ambitious and utterly brilliant album, with more thrills than their previous three put together, which, in an alternative universe, would leave them at the end of an epic lineage connecting the greatest bands of all time: Queen<\/a>, Roxy Music<\/a>, Ziggy (not his mere human form of Bowie<\/a>), ABC<\/a>, Frankie Goes To Hollywood<\/a>, Adam And The Ants<\/a> and Queens Of The Stone Age<\/a>. In this universe of Dadrock authenticity, they\u2019ve made a record with enough power and ambition that it might just rewrite that particular rulebook. Whichever way, \u2018Black Holes & Revelations\u2019 will slay you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Speaking to NME as part of a recent honest and all-encompassing interview<\/a> about their acclaimed new Number One album \u2018The Wow! Signal\u2019<\/a>, Bellamy shared that talks were underway to celebrate the album with a re-release and perhaps something special live.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re going to bring \u2018Take A Bow\u2019 into the set,\u201d he told NME, ahead of their 2026 tour kicking off last night<\/a> where the album opener was played as the encore. \u201cI think we\u2019re supposed to do some kind of anniversary package, and I\u2019ve got loads of missed emails from management saying we need this, this and this. We\u2019ll probably try to put together some kind of anniversary package.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bellamy added: \u201cWhether we play the whole album at some point, that could be an option.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MuseMuse at the press conference to launch their shows at Wembley Stadium in 2006. (Photo by Anthony Harvey\/WireImage)<\/p>\n

In 2019, the band celebrated their earliest years by reissuing their first two albums \u2018Showbiz\u2019 and \u2018Origin Of Symmetry<\/a>\u2018 along with demos, B-sides and unheard material for the huge \u2018Origin Of Muse\u2019 box set. Then in 2021 they marked 20 years of the seminal \u2018Origin Of Symmetry\u2019 by remixing it<\/a>\u00a0and a deluxe 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of third album \u2018Absolution\u2019 followed in 2023.<\/p>\n

NME\u00a0gave new album \u2018The Wow! Signal\u2019 four stars<\/a>, noting: \u201cIn rekindling their own purpose, the Teignmouth trio have delivered undoubtedly their most consistent and satisfying album since \u2018Black Holes & Revelations\u2019 \u2013 doubling up as either a knowing gift to the fans or at least a response to any concerns that Muse had long disappeared too far up their own supermassive blackholes. Look up to the sky with a sigh of relief or a simple \u2018wow\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bellamy also recently told <\/a>NME\u00a0that the album found him leaning into \u201cthe unknown\u201d after a difficult personal period and split from his wife, saying: \u201cI can\u2019t live without music \u2013 that feeling came back to me on this album.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interview also saw Bellamy look back on the \u201900s guitar rock scene<\/a> and share plans for \u201cbuilding a spaceship<\/a>\u201d for their upcoming UK and European arena tour.<\/p>\n

Muse will then bring \u2018The Wow! Signal\u2019 to the UK and Europe this autumn<\/a>, including two nights at Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live on November 12 and 13, and two London shows at The O2 on November 15 and 16.\u00a0Find tickets for those shows\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has spoken to NME about plans for the band to celebrate their huge fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}