Muse - Survival (Official Olympics song) - 2nd Law artwork
 

Muse have unveiled the trailer for their new studio album, which looks set to be titled 'The 2nd Law'. To watch the trailer, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click.

The trailer features a compilation of news footage over a musical backdrop, which initially begins as an ornate, classical piece in the style of track's like 'Butterflies & Hurricanes' before morphing into a full-on dubstep track.

The trailer ends with the words 'The 2nd Law' and 'September 2012' being shown as the music fades out.

The news footage features an actress reciting lines seem to be derived from the second law of thermodynamics. This is the study of energy and how it transfers between forms.

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy also tweeted the lines, which read as follows: "All natural and technological processes proceed in such a way that the availability of the remaining energy decreases. In all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves an isolated system, the entropy of that system incre,cre,cre,cre,c,c,creases."

He continued: "Energy continuously flows from being concentrated, to becoming dispersed, spread out, wasted and useless. New energy cannot be created and high grade energy is being destroyed. An economy based on endless growth is..."

Reaction online has mixed, with Twitter reaction ranging from @LuLou's ''I'm not going to judge the entire album on one two minute video, but I'm not optimistic'' to @beebobette, who wrote: "No seriously, this is sounding incredible. Once it got to that 1:30 point, I was about to have an aneurysm."

The band's new album is the follow-up to 2009's 'The Resistance' and has been recorded in London.

Little has been revealed about the album so far, but the band have said that they are working on an orchestral score with composer David Campbell, who has previously worked with Radiohead on '15 Step' and U2's Broadway musical Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark.

Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme has previously said that the band want to do "something radically different" on their new album.

Oh no... they're going dubstep :(

Only just saw the trailer yesterday... if they go dubstep I will ****ing cry. Why change your sound if it's ticking all the boxes? :(

i can't contain my excitement

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omg omg omg

If it's dubstep then :mad:

If not then :amazed:

"We are very excited to announce that a Muse song, Survival, has been selected by the London Olympic committee to be the main official song for the London 2012 Olympic Games."

Posted 9 mins ago on their Facebook thingy :amazed:

So does that mean the one tonight isn't gonna have anything to do with the Olympics, or is Survival the one that will be on R1? :suspect:

Almost 7:30, shame I have to listen to Zane Lowe while waiting but whatever it's just about worth it.

Wow, 4 posts in a row. I feel lonely.

What a tune. Amazing. So ****ing glad it wasn't dubstep + hopefully they keep the same sort of tone as Survival for most of the album. So good that they're finally back :amazed:

:laugh2: -makes Jayson feel less lonely-

Not sure if Unsustainable was played

It wasn't, I'm guessing your source got mixed up with the song titles :hmph:

What do you thing about Survival then?

it was NME :p they should know better :hmph:

and I'll listen now hai/

think*

The excitement has compromised my spelling.

arrangement's really nice, but the lyrics are a bit corny. I like it though.

I really like this. :amazed: The choir is a bit tacky though.

Yeah I wasn't expecting the lyrics to be much cop, this is for the Olympics after all. Great anthem though, and I seem to be alone in saying that I enjoyed the prelude.

Really like it, very epic production. Look forward to their new album.

It's not bad, I've not really warmed upto it yet.

Music video:

Just imagine how epic those songs will sound though :amazed:

I like this song

New album cover for 2nd Law (just make this the 2nd Law thread)

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...36477807_n.jpg

All I can say is I don't understand the message they are trying to convey but it looks quite pretty.

Muse are awesome.

this whole "we're putting science into our music" stuff is getting quite tired now. But surely T2L can't be worse than the Resistance.