Muse Releases “Live at Rome Olympic Stadium” CD/DVD

Muse has followed up the success of last year’s The 2nd Law with a new live album and DVD. Live At Rome Olympic Stadium presents the band’s Italian performance on July 6th in front of over 60,000 fans as part of their Unsustainable Tour. It also acts as a musical snapshot of the band’s increasingly electronic sound, which lead singer Matt Bellamy says will be pared down in the future.

“We didn’t do a concert album for the last two albums, so we wanted this album and film to capture the best moments from those albums, but also capture some of the extremes of what we’ve been doing since we want to go in a different direction in the future,” Bellamy told Rolling Stone. “They’re extremes for us, but it depends on your point of view. I mean, experimenting with electronic music and experimenting with a softer side of our band and also opening up our connectiveness with the audiences. I think Rome really shows us connecting with the audience in a way we hadn’t done before, literally getting out there physically and touching them, grabbing them.”

A perfect example of the electronic direction the band has taken is evidenced in their performance of the song “Madness.” Bassist Chris Wolstenholme holds down the low end on the dubstep-influenced track with a custom doubleneck bass. Its top half is a Misa Kitara MIDI controller while the bottom half is a Status S2-Classic headless bass.

If you’re not into the trio’s newer stuff, don’t worry. They also play through their older material including “Hysteria,” “Knights of Cydonia” and “Supermassive Black Hole.” The CD version contains 13 tracks from the set. The DVD includes the full set with 20 songs mixed in surround sound as well as bonus songs from other concerts.

Live at Rome Olympic Stadium is out now as a CD/DVD set as well as digital formats (iTunes and Amazon MP3).

Live at Rome Olympic Stadium Track List:

Audio Disc:

1. Supremacy
2. Panic Station
3. Resistance
4. Hysteria
5. Animals
6. Knights Of Cydonia
7. Explorers
8. Follow Me
9. Madness
10. Guiding Light
11. Supermassive Black Hole
12. Uprising
13. Starlight

DVD:

1. Intro
2. Supremacy
3. Panic Station
4. Plug In Baby
5. Resistance
6. Animals
7. Knights Of Cydonia
8. Explorers
9. Hysteria
10. Feeling Good
11. Follow Me
12. Madness
13. Time Is Running Out
14. Guiding Light
15. Undisclosed Desires
16. Supermassive Black Hole
17. Survival
18. The 2nd Law: Isolated System
19. Uprising
20. Starlight
21. Stockholm Syndrome (Las Vegas)
22. Unsustainable (Las Vegas)
23. Liquid State (Dallas)
24. The Road (The Film)