Muse to start work on new album 'fairly soon'
Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme has confirmed the band are planning to hit the studio "very, very soon".
Muse are planning to work on a new album "fairly soon".
The 'Hysteria' rockers' last full-length record was 2022's 'Will of the People', which was released on Warner Records, and bassist Chris Wolstenholme has confirmed they are keen to get started on a follow-up and ink a new record deal.
Speaking on an episode of 'The Leona Graham Podcast', he spilled: “We will [sign to a label], obviously. I think we’re gonna start work on the next record fairly soon.
“I think for the last few albums we’ve been with Warner and we’ve extended after each album. We may do the same again; we may go with a new label, who knows.”
The Matt Bellamy-fronted trio - which is completed by drummer Dominic Howard - have needed the time to "reset" and Chris admits that there will be "bigger" gaps between records.
He said: “When you finish touring an album, and [when] the band has been around a bit longer, the gaps between albums get a little bit bigger. I don’t think we can be banging out new albums every two years like we used to.
“But it gives you that opportunity to reset a little bit and think about what’s gonna happen going forward.”
As for when fans can expect their 10th studio album, it's likely to be in 2026, according to Chris.
He continued: “I think we’ll start very, very soon, like in the next couple of months.
“We’ve got a few gigs in June. Only a handful – that’s the only gigs we’re doing this year.
“I don’t think the idea is to do anything really serious until next year, so I would imagine that 2026 will be a new album, barring any disasters.”
Matt previously explained that the ‘Plug In Baby’ hitmakers – who formed in 1994 – weren’t “in favour” of marking their long career with a greatest hits LP for their 30th anniversary but felt they still provided fans with a type of retrospective with ‘Will of the People’ because it goes through so many different genres.
He told The Big Issue in 2022: “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.”
Meanwhile, during Muse's downtime, Chris has been busy with a side project called Chromes, who released their first two tracks, ‘Imaginary World’ and ‘The Good Life’, in October, with the musician on lead vocals.
