Closer The 2nd Law: Isolated System manages to unsettle the listener by use of a searching piano motif, reminiscent of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, famously heard in The Exorcist. Survival, an official song of the 2012 Olympic Games, rides emphatic thumps, whereas Liquid State, one of two tracks penned by bassist Chris Wolstenholme, adopts a fluid groove. But when this album works, it works well. Panic Station borrows from both Queen's Another One Bites the Dust and Michael Jackson's Thriller, without ever attaining the majesty of either tune. The array of musical styles on show across The 2nd Law means that, like many of this band's past albums, it doesn't entirely coalesce into a seamless collection of songs. The swaggering Kashmir-style six-shooter riff of Supremacy is not only the sonic equivalent of a band bursting through the doors of a saloon bar and stopping the clientele dead it also affirms that Matt Bellamy is a master of the guitar in the order of Metallica's James Hetfield or AC/DC's Malcolm Young. What is surprising, though, is that the band that so often would be Queen begins like Led Zeppelin. So it comes as no surprise that The 2nd Law takes no time at all to make its presence felt. A track like 2006's exquisitely bonkers Knights of Cydonia could only have been of their making. In 2014, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast Viktoria Mazur used the tune for her clubs routine at the 2014 Izmir World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.One of the most remarkable characteristics regarding Muse, themselves an entirely remarkable band, is the sheer speed at which many of their songs are recognised as being classic compositions of the grandest order. In 2013, the song was used by the Nine Network to promote the National Rugby League match between the Sydney Roosters and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, in which Sonny Bill Williams came up against his old club for the first time since walking out on them halfway through the 2008 NRL season. This release of the trailer led many fans to assume that the song would be the first single from the album however, this assumption was later proved to be incorrect. On June 6, 2012, Muse released a trailer for The 2nd Law containing a sample of the song, which received mixed reactions regarding the change in style for the band. During The 2nd Law World Tour, the song was typically played as an opener before " Supremacy", or as the first song during the encore. These live performances usually contain the band grouped around the drummer ( Dominic Howard) and play the speaking part in the background electronically. The song was first played live on October 16, 2012. We wanted to ask, 'Can rock bands compete with what these guys are doing?'" The song has four distinct parts: a classical music section (with a female speaking voice in the background), a dubstep breakdown, a progressive rock bridge (also containing the female voice), and another dubstep breakdown to finish the song. We created something that was dubsteppy but we wanted to see if we could do it with real instruments. The moshpit has moved from guitars and gone towards the laptop, so with that song we're trying to see if we can challenge the laptop. Some of that hard dubstep or brostep coming from America is capturing the imagination. We took inspiration and came up with 'Unsustainable'.
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It was like a full metal gig, they had the circles of death, people were moshing, I hadn't seen a reaction like that to electronic music before. According to the band: "We went to see Skrillex in Camden around October. However, despite the strong dubstep influences, the supposed electronic sound is produced through "real instruments". This mixture gained a mixed reaction from fans. These include classical music, progressive rock, and dubstep.