Muse and Slipknot are most likely two names you did not anticipate to see collectively so ceaselessly in 2022, however right here we’re. Muse’s ninth album Will of the People is out at this time (Aug. 26), and so they channel a little bit of Slipknot of their new horror-themed video for the tune “You Make Me Really feel Like It is Halloween.”
There are, fittingly, plenty of horror film references laced all through the video. As frontman Matt Bellamy, the masked protagonist, makes his method all through the storyline, you will seemingly acknowledge imagery from Stephen King’s It and The Shining, Friday the thirteenth, Scream and some others.
There is a scene towards the tip of the video the place every time he takes off a masks, one other masks is revealed beneath. We see him undergo Jason Voorhees to Ghostface to Man Fawkes after which… Corey Taylor? The ultimate masks resembles the one which the Slipknot frontman wore throughout their self-titled and Iowa eras, and the dreadlocks actually high it off.
See a screenshot of the scene beneath, and the total music video beneath.
Muse vocalist Matt Bellamy did say that there was a little bit of a Slipknot affect that seeped its method onto the brand new album, primarily due to his son, who’s a fan of the masked band.
“And we by no means fake to have the ability to contact these guys, however listening to that stuff blasting on the best way to highschool most mornings, that actually form of bought into the album slightly bit,” the singer advised Apple Music yesterday.
They even shocked a competition viewers in England again in June after they played a tidbit of Slipknot’s “Duality” throughout their set, which was a part of a melody of songs they performed by different artists. Nonetheless, the opposite artists have been Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine and Jimi Hendrix — Slipknot are a bit distant from these bands sonically.
Some followers could recall that Muse drummer Dominic Howard truly as soon as wore Taylor’s Slipknot-era dreadlock masks backstage in 2001. Each bands had been on the invoice for a competition in Spain, and the ‘Knot frontman tossed his masks into the gang as their set ended. The fan who caught the masks ended up hanging out with Muse afterward, and somebody recorded the drummer impersonating Taylor whereas sporting the masks. Test it out beneath.
Muse ‘You Make Me Really feel Like It is Halloween’ Video
