Muse have returned with a surprise new single, “Unravelling”. Released on June 20th 2025, the track is the first fresh bite from Muse since 2022’s Will of the People. The Devon trio still serve the cathedral-sized riffs and choral synth swells we expect, but beneath the bombast lurks something startlingly intimate.

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For a band that once pirouetted CGI spaceships over Wembley, Muse have always hidden fragile feelings inside IMAX-worthy arrangements. “Unravelling” magnifies that tension. Bellamy’s newly favoured eight-string guitar brings a whole new dimension to the band’s sound, and then in the chorus, everything blooms into a cathedral-wide lament: “Feeling the glow / Die inside of our bones / This is a hymn for our love / With no God and no throne.”

Lyrically, Bellamy trades the macro politics of Will of the People for something unnervingly close-range. The first image, “An insect trapped in amber, I’m a fading pulse”- shrinks the grand narrative down to a fractured romance, frozen in prehistoric resin. He’s sung about cosmic apocalypse and shadow governments, but mateship and love have always been the secret engine under Muse’s chrome hood (“Unintended,” “Endlessly,” even the brittle optimism of “Starlight”).

Speaking about the track, the band’s press release states:

Unravelling puts a new spin on the genre-clash creativity that has become a hallmark of the Muse experience. Haunting, arpeggiated synths establish a foreboding tone before it suddenly detonates into a colossal wall of barbed riffs and unleashing a full-drama hook that pulsates with their renowned maximalist theatricality.

As for where it sits in the lineage, think of it as the missing puzzle piece between the alienated tenderness of The 2nd Law’s “Explorers” and the militant despair of Drones. Bellamy’s long-running fascination with entropy, both societal and emotional, finally collapses inwards. The insect in amber can never break free; love has ossified. That’s a bleak vision, but Muse have never been interested in tidy catharsis. They draw beauty out of ruins, and “Unravelling” is another ruined cathedral they set ablaze purely so we can watch the sparks fly.

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“Unravelling” offers no neat closure; instead, it hands us x-ray vision. By dimming the sci-fi spotlights, even as they still torch the skyline with that solo, Muse expose the delicate circuitry humming beneath two decades of bombast.

The insect may be frozen forever in its golden tomb, but the fact that we can still see its wings tells us the story isn’t finished. Somewhere inside that resin, a pulse remains, and you can bet Muse will wire it to the biggest stack of amps they can find on the next album.

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