The Resistance

The Resistance
Studio album by Muse
Publication (s)	2009
Label (s)	Warner Music Group , Helium 3
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Rock , alternative , new prog , art rock
Title (number)	11
running time	54 min 14 s
occupation	Vocals, guitar, keyboard, piano: Matthew Bellamy E-bass: Christopher Wolstenholme Drums: Dominic Howard
production	muse
Studio (s)	Studio Bellini, Lake Como , Italy
chronology Black Holes and Revelations (2006) The Resistance The 2nd Law (2012)

The Resistance is the fifth studio album by the alternative rock band Muse . It was released in 2009 and won the 2011 Grammy Award in the Best Rock Album category.

backgrounds

As early as 2007 during the tour for Black Holes and Revelations , the first rumors were circulating about the next studio album. In October, the music magazine NME reported that Muse was planning an electronic album. It was said that it would contain a 15-minute space rock solo and depart from the conventional album format. On May 22nd, the NME announced that the band had started the new album and quoted frontman Matthew Bellamy as saying, "What will come out of that is impossible to say." (It is impossible to say what will come of this.)

Drummer Dominic Howard explained that the advancement of technology has made it possible to release music as soon as it is finished. However, rumors of free downloads, similar to Radioheads In Rainbows , have been denied. In mid-2008, Muse announced that they had composed several new songs. However, the fans should "not expect a new album too soon", as bassist Christopher Wolstenholme explained, because material for recording is not yet available and the plan is to start that same year. At the end of the year, Bellamy clarified the rumors about a 15-minute space rock solo: It would be a three-part piece of music that has the character of a symphony and on which he had worked sporadically over several years.

At the same time, the band announced that they had started recording and that they were aiming for release in late 2009. In January 2009, an "Insider with contacts to Warner" announced that Muse would release the album in September and go on tour. In March, Bellamy stated the album was halfway through and characterized it as symphonic. A little later, the band released three videos from the studio , including a recording session in a toilet . In the same month the tour was confirmed in autumn and concerts with U2 in the USA were announced.

The lyrics of the album are strongly influenced by George Orwell's 1984 , which is expressed for example in the songs Resistance or United States of Eurasia (+ Collateral Damage) .

publication

The album title The Resistance was announced on Twitter on May 22nd . The first song title United States of Eurasia was confirmed by the band's website after fans deciphered it from a photo of Matthew Bellamy holding sheet music for the song. Shortly afterwards Dominic Howard announced on his MySpace page The Resistance would hopefully be out in a few months and the band had just mixed a few songs that sounded "wicked" (roughly "crazy"). There is still a lot of work to be done before the release, but the band is making good progress. On June 1st, Radio 1 of the BBC announced that there would soon be a promotional tour for The Resistance whose concert dates would later be listed on the band's website.

On June 16, 2009, September 14, 2009 was confirmed as the release date. In a Twitter update on June 23, Wolstenholme announced that the band had finished the album and only had to master it in New York . The tracklist of the album was announced bit by bit over the day on July 3rd via Twitter . The band also announced on July 14th via Twitter that the first single would be Uprising.

As of August 17, 2009, iTunes made 30 seconds of each song available for auditioning.

On September 7th, Zane Lowe initiated Muse Night on BBC Radio 1 , during which he played Undisclosed Desires twice in a row because no one had responded to it via Twitter. He also played a 30-minute concert recording of the band, which had been made the weekend before at a concert in Teignmouth , the hometown of the band and which contained the pieces The Resistance, Undisclosed Desires, United States of Eurasia and Unnatural Selection from the new album.

On September 9, it was announced that The Resistance would be one of the first iTunes LPs to be available in the iTunes Store . This should contain the album itself and some extras like an animated booklet and background videos.

On September 11th, the entire album was made available on the Internet in advance due to distribution errors on download sites, which meant that some Internet users illegally came into possession of the album. It was published on September 11, 2009 in Germany , the Benelux countries , Australia , Italy and Switzerland . The album was released in New Zealand and Europe on September 14th, in the USA and Canada on September 15th, in Japan on September 16th and in Brazil on September 17th, 2009. The album could be purchased on iTunes before the official release date and was available for pre-listening on various websites from September 10th. The Resistance was produced in-house between 2008 and 2009 and was mixed by Mark Stent. It is sold through the band's own label Helium 3 and Warner . The first single Uprising was released on August 3, 2009.

Single releases

The single releases were:

• Uprising (2009)
• Undisclosed Desires (2009)
• Resistance (2010)

Track list

1. Uprising - 5:05
2. Resistance - 5:47
3. Undisclosed Desires - 3:56
4. United States of Eurasia / Collateral Damage (Excerpt from Nocturne in E-Flat, Op. 9 No. 2) - 5:48
5. Guiding Light - 4:13
6. Unnatural Selection - 6:55
7. MK Ultra - 4:06
8. I Belong to You / Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix - 5:39
9. Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1 (Overture) - 4:18
10. Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 2 (Cross-Pollination) - 3:56
11. Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 3 (Redemption) - 4:37

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	platinum	70,000
Belgium (BEA)	platinum	(30,000)
Denmark (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(60,000)
Germany (BVMI)	platinum	(300,000)
Europe (IFPI)	2 × platinum	2,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	platinum	(23,536)
France (SNEP)	diamond	(500,000)
Ireland (IRMA)	platinum	(15,000)
Italy (FIMI)	2 × platinum	(120,000)
Canada (MC)	platinum	80,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	(15,000)
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold	(30,000)
Norway (IFPI)	gold	(15,000)
Austria (IFPI)	gold	(10,000)
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	(10,000)
Portugal (AFP)	platinum	(20,000)
Russia (NFPF)	gold	(10,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	(30,000)
United States (RIAA)	platinum	1,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
All in all	5 × gold 18 × platinum 1 × diamond	3,165,000

Main article: Muse (band) / Awards for music sales

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Muse planning 'electronic' album". NME October 12, 2007 (online at: nme.com )
2. ↑ "Muse: next album to have '15-minute space-rock solo '". NME. March 12, 2008. (online at: nme.com )
3. ↑ "Muse might ditch album format". NME. March 14, 2008 (online at: nme.com )
4. ^ "Muse begin work on fifth album". NME. May 29, 2008 (online at: nme.com )
5. ^ "Muse to release next album more 'organically'". NME. May 30, 2008. (online at: nme.com )
6. ↑ "Muse aim to include 'hardest song ever' on new album". NME. November 26, 2008 (online at: nme.com )
7. ^ "New Muse album and tour for September?". NME. February 9, 2009. (online at: nme.com )
8. ↑ "Muse: 'Our new album is set for Classic FM'". NME. March 2, 2009. (online at: nme.com )
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11. ↑ BBC - Newsbeat - New Muse Album 'inspired' by 1984 . bbc.co.uk. August 4, 2009. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
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13. ↑ blogs.myspace.com ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ^ "Muse's new album 'The Resistance' gets release date". NME. June 17, 2009. (online at: nme.com )
15. ^ "MUSE The Resistance iTunes LP". (online at: muse.mu )
16. ^ "Muse name new album". NME. May 22, 2009. (online at: nme.com )
17. ↑ Muse planning 'electronic' album. October 12, 2007. (online at: nme.com )