On Thursday (Sept. 27), Muse launched their new ’80s highschool homecoming-meets-Stranger Things music video for “Pressure,” and the retro, zombie-filled, sci-fi visible is nothing wanting superb.
For the newest observe from their upcoming Nov. 9 album Simulation Theory — their first report since 2015’s Drones — the band continues their collaboration with director Lance Drake, drawing upon a nostalgic ’80s pop-culture vibe. Centering on a high-school-gone-wrong situation, the video additionally options comic Terry Crews.
Kicking off with a stupendous mountain sundown over a desert highway, the clip begins with an unseen individual placing on VR glasses earlier than arriving at a highschool dance. At the homecoming dance, unenthusiastic college students look boring as Crews publicizes a really particular deal with for this yr’s occasion: hometown heroes and native battle of the band winners Rocket Baby Doll (aka Muse’s unique band title).
Once the band begins enjoying, the scholars slowly begin to bop their heads and get into the groove — turning the occasion into an actual dance get together. The multiple-riff, guitar-heavy tune options some spectacular melodic preparations and a full-bodied vocal assault by frontman Matt Bellamy.
When a younger couple decides to enterprise inside the college’s darkish, closed hallways — issues begin to go terribly mistaken. Dropping a soda-looking can on a pc, the pair causes {an electrical}, laser-packed response, reworking an lovable hamster right into a Furby-looking zombie — able to kill no matter comes his method.
Muse additionally introduced preliminary cities for his or her 2019 tour, however no official dates have been launched but. A couple of cities within the their North American run embrace New York, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Toronto and Washington.
Watch Muse’s new video for “Pressure” under.
