The British trio Muse conquered Europe by storm. The three men with singer / guitarist Matthew Bellamy as figurehead formed their band already at the age of thirteen. After the great rock album Showbiz (1999), the group broke with Origin of Symmetry (2001). The albums that followed seemed to outdo each other in bombast. Muse was from the beginning directly compared to Radiohead, mainly due to the
… striking similarity in the voices of Bellamy and Radiohead singer Thom Yorke. Later bands like Rush, Pink Floyd and Queen especially mentioned as references.more