Muse have released 5 Studio albums and one album full of B-side tracks and live recordings from a gig they played in Paris. Here is the album artwork...
Muse - Showbiz
Here we can see a woman who is dressed up like a celebrity, dancing on a different planet, we can see the earth in the background. With an album title like showbiz, this suggests a bold statement about celebrities and the world of showbiz.
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
For this album cover Muse asked several different artists to create a piece of artwork with the title 'Origin Of Symmetry' they then chose the one they preferred for the cover and the rest make up the inside booklet in the CD.
This is the B-sides album and the only cover that Muse themselves feature on.
This cover depicts 'Judgement Day' the band said that they liked the idea of everyone being taken to be judged but the one man left behind looking up to the sky left behind, looking like he wonders why he has been left behind. This suggests conspiracy.
This cover depicts 4 men on the surface of mars sat around a table with 4 horses on. The band have said they liked the theme of 'men are from mars.' This also suggests conspiracy.
The artwork for the resistance is based upon 3 songs in the album. A 3 part symphony named 'Exogenisis.' The songs are about humanity destroying earth and sending an astronaught into space to inherit another planet.
Two themes that runs thoughout all of the album art is the 'space' theme and the 'conspiracy' theme. They all seem to have some sort of relation to these certain themes. The artwork is all very colourful and striking which not only reflects the band as a personality (being very extravagant) but it also helps lure fans in as it is all very easy on the eye. It also helps them distance themselves from other bands with a similar genre.
As Matt Bellamy, lead guitaris and vocals of Muse is an avid conspiracy theorist, there is bound to be some conspiracy based themes in the album art. This is a reflection of what the songs that make up the album may be about or a reflection of the bands personality too.
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