Absolution

Absolution is Muse’s third main studio album. And one of the albums you must hear before your death.

Bellamy told N.M.E.

As images of space are generally a good influence on our music, we chose the planetarium for this. it fits in really well with the album – looking at the world from an objective point of view.

Matt also revealed the meaning behind Absolution’s striking cover, which shows a man with a gas mask staring into the sky

The bloke’s looking ambiguous and unusual, he’s stood there and he’s holding a gas mask to look as if he’s protecting himself from something—an end of the world scenario. But something’s happened and he’s taken it off.
He’s looking up and it’s judgment day. The aliens have either come down to earth or the chosen ones are flying away—and he’s thinking ‘why haven’t I been chosen?’ I think from that point of view sometimes!