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Muse tease heavy new single Won’t Stand Down, coming January 13

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Matt Bellamy’s band are coming back with new single Won’t Stand Down… and this time they’re packing riffs

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Muse have announced the imminent release of Won’t Stand Down, the riff-heavy first single from their as-yet-untitled forthcoming ninth studio album. The single will be released on January 13, and is available to pre-save now on streaming services.

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy gave fans a sneak preview of a section of the riff-heavy song in an Instagram Live posting showing his 10-year-old son Bingham headbanging to the track in his father’s car. 

No release date has yet been set for the Devon trio’s ninth album, the follow-up to the band’s ’80s-influenced 2018 album Simulation Theory. 

Paul Brannigan
Paul Brannigan
Contributing Editor, Louder

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.