Muse on their new album 'The 2nd Law' were inspired by Skrillex and say wanted to give a hard time to electronic music.
Drummer Dominic Howard told NME magazine: "We went to see Skrillex in Camden around October. We went, 'F**k, it's so heavy', loved it.
"It was like a full metal gig, they had the circles of death, people were moshing, I hadn't seen a reaction like that to electronic music before. We took inspiration and came up with '...Unsustainable'.
Singer Matt Bellamy added: "The moshpit has moved from guitars and gone towards the laptop, so with that song we're trying to see if we can challenge the laptop.
"We created something that was dubsteppy but we wanted to see if we could do it with real instruments. We wanted to ask, 'Can rock bands compete with what these guys are doing?'"
Matt explained: "Every time I watched the news when we were making the album, it was endless stuff about the Euro banking crisis. All the news programs seemed to be obsessed with growth.
Drummer Dominic Howard told NME magazine: "We went to see Skrillex in Camden around October. We went, 'F**k, it's so heavy', loved it.
"It was like a full metal gig, they had the circles of death, people were moshing, I hadn't seen a reaction like that to electronic music before. We took inspiration and came up with '...Unsustainable'.
Singer Matt Bellamy added: "The moshpit has moved from guitars and gone towards the laptop, so with that song we're trying to see if we can challenge the laptop.
"We created something that was dubsteppy but we wanted to see if we could do it with real instruments. We wanted to ask, 'Can rock bands compete with what these guys are doing?'"
Matt explained: "Every time I watched the news when we were making the album, it was endless stuff about the Euro banking crisis. All the news programs seemed to be obsessed with growth.
