Muse will fly drones over audiences during live gigs

Matt Bellamy and Dominic Howard (Muse) were recently guests of Alt 98.7 radio in Los Angeles for an interview. During the live chat the unveiled a few intriguing things about the band's upcoming plans and studio album.

Speaking about their live plans, Bellamy said:

We always like to use the modern technology in our shows, the latest video screens or light shows, lasers, whatever is out there. Drones are obviously an interesting thing to try to bring into the live show so we're going to try and do that. There's going to be some difficulty with red tape of health and safety about flying things over, but the general thing idea is that as the tour starts that we'll be using flying objects.

Then the frontman revealed that the album - called "Drones" and due out on June 8 - will be some kind of concept album, with a full narrative arc. And he explained:

it's not a strict concept in the way that Pink Floyd did it; the songs work in their own right independently, but they gel together based on the concept of drones. The vague narrative follows a kind of protagonist who goes through this journey of losing everything and sort of feeling like being brainwashed, being drawn into the military and becoming a person who feels like they've lost their soul, then eventually coming back and rediscovering it and fighting back against the systems that oppressed them – that journey takes place across the first eight songs of the album and then the ending of the album is a separate epilogue of sorts.

This is the full tracklist of "Drones":

'Dead Inside'
'[Drill Sergeant]'
'Psycho'
'Mercy'
'Reapers'
'The Handler'
'[JFK]'
'Defector'
'Revolt'
'Aftermath'
'The Globalist'
'Drones'