Awesome Muse

For their July 2023 concert in Cesena, Italy, the Rockin’1000 gathered 1000 guitarists, drummers, bass players, keyboard players, and vocalists to perform the Muse track Knights of Cydonia. We always thought Muse sounded much bigger than a three-person band, but the wall of sound created by hundreds of musicians makes the track even more epic.

Luca Stricagnoli takes on another Muse song with a performance of Hysteria on his unique triple-necked acoustic guitar. As his fingers fly across the three fretboards, Luca captures the original track’s massive energy despite being a solo musician.

Guitarist Luca Stricagnoli performs one of our favorite Muse tracks, applying his extraordinary fingerstyle technique to Knights of Cydonia. His acoustic version plays right into the spaghetti western theme of the original’s music video. Want more? Luca previously covered Supermassive Black Hole and Starlight.

The Muse track Knights of Cydonia is one of our favorites. It sounds especially great as a retro video game song. 8-bit Universe created this stellar chiptune version of the 2006 track which would have been perfect as the theme music for an old school Atari game like Ballblazer or M.U.L.E.

Andre Antunes takes a momentary break from riffing on viral videos to perform a new arrangement of the Metallica track Master of Puppets as if it was performed by Muse. He does an amazing job capturing the nuances of the arena rock masters while creating an awesome new version of a classic metal track.

Despite their very different sounds, The Beatles and Muse have at least a couple of things in common – they’re both English and both have filled large stadiums. Andre Antunes finds more middle ground between the two bands with this great performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps done in Matt Bellamy’s grand style.

No one’s gonna take me alive. The talented musicians of Mariachi Entertainment System took on quite the challenge. With the help of a little tequila, they performed this awesomely unexpected cover of the Muse track Knights of Cydonia, which always felt like a post-modern soundtrack for a Spaghetti western.

Michalina Malisz has made a name for herself by performing rock and metal songs on a hurdy-gurdy. In this video, she performs a medley of riffs Muse tracks, including Pressure, Supermassive Black Hole, and Hysteria, which sounds super cool on the instrument. Need more? How about some Rammstein or Black Sabbath?

We’ve heard a number of great covers from maromaro1337, and our ears can’t get enough of those low-fi analog tones. This time, the solo musician took on the bold and dynamic sounds of the 2003 Muse track Hysteria. You’ll want to crank your speakers up to 11 for this one.

Guitarist Luca Stricagnoli is back to wow us with yet another incredible fingerstyle performance, this time, taking on the incredibly dynamic Muse track Supermassive Black Hole, and extracting way more sound out of single guitar than should be physically possible.

Black Holes and Revelations is one of our favorite Muse albums. EatMyUke is a fan too, and put together this great medley from the album, including Starlight, Supermassive Black Hole, and Knights of Cydonia, which sounds particularly great on the ukulele.

It’s too late for a revolution… Brace for the final solution. The title track off of the upcoming Muse album Thought Contagion feels kind of like a dark sequel to the events of Uprising. The track features a great music video dripping with ’80s style and pop culture references.

Musician Amy Turk turns in two excellent covers of Muse tracks, the powerful Plug in Baby and the emotional Falling Away with You, beautifully rendered on her harp. Be sure to check out her YouTube channel for more great performances.

8 Bit Universe presents an amazing chiptune cover version of the Muse classic Knights of Cydonia that sounds like it could have come straight out of a late ’80s side-scrolling shooter. We’re thinking something like R-TYPE could have easily used this as its soundtrack.

Multitalented musician Kawehi reminds us why we love her so much, as she turns in an awesome one-woman performance of the Muse track Time is Running Out during a live performance. We’re looking forward to her recently crowdfunded new album EVE.

We always thought the Muse track Uprising sounded like the Doctor Who theme song, but this track by CjR MIX proves that it also melds perfectly with Blondie’s 1980 classic Call Me. Download the track here.

Andre Antunes shreds a finger-blistering 13-minute medley of tracks by one of today’s greatest rock bands (accompanied by the original vocals of Matt Bellamy). We dare you not to nod you head in rhythm to Hysteria, Knights of Cydonia, and Uprising.

Cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser crank the energy level up to 9000 for this amazing, frenetic performance of the Muse classic Hysteria, done as only 2CELLOS can do it. One of the numerous epic tracks on their new album Celloverse.

The talented musicians of UK ensemble Vigilante Brass perform an awesome cover Muse’s epic Knights of Cydonia. Now we want to see a college marching band do the same thing at half-time this Sunday.

The first single off of Muse’s new album The 2nd Law features Matthew Bellamy’s larger-than-life vocals, backed by an infectious electronic chorus. Pre-order the album to get the single now.

Musician Jason Yang takes on Muse’s anthem Resistance on piano and electric violin. It gets a little nuts around 3:33, but an epic space-rock solo makes perfect sense in a Muse song.