Muse have settled on Dead Poet Society as main support for their late autumn arena tour across the United Kingdom and Europe. The decision places the Boston rock group in front of some of the continent's largest indoor audiences, pairing a veteran Devon trio known for high-concept staging with a younger band currently preparing to launch an album of their own.
For Dead Poet Society, the invitation coincides neatly with their autumn release calendar. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Underkofler, guitarist Jack Collins, bassist Dylan Brenner, and drummer Will Goodroad are set to release their new record, Monarch, through Spinefarm at the beginning of October. The LP follows their 2024 release Fission. Listeners have already heard an initial batch of material from the record, with the band sharing Miami For The Weekend, Cold, Roach, and Sinner Systems ahead of street date. Tracking took place on the West Coast, split between Valley View Studios and The Park in Los Angeles, where Mutemath frontman Paul Meany handled production duties and Adam Hawkins shaped the final mix.
Muse are touring behind their tenth studio record, The Wow! Signal, which arrived in June. The trio spent the spring testing the waters with an intimate April date at Brixton Academy, marking their first show on that stage since 2001, before transporting the complete arena production across North America. With those dates wrapped up, Matt Bellamy and company are turning back toward the British and European market, where their stage setups have long functioned as physical extensions of their studio concepts.
The visual plans for this leg draw directly from the extraterrestrial themes of the album title. Bellamy has explained that the staging team went through extensive design work trying to incorporate an elaborate spaceship alongside brand new laser rigs. A fully levitating craft was considered during early planning, though Bellamy pointed out that the projected budget ended up surpassing the cost of residential property in London's Primrose Hill. While that financial reality means the vessel will stay grounded on the stage floor, the production remains tied to the space-age style that runs through the band's catalog.
The itinerary opens in northern England on November 12 with the first of two consecutive nights at Manchester's Co-op Live arena. Muse and Dead Poet Society then head south for two back-to-back dates at The O2 in London on November 15 and 16, followed by a stop at the Uber Arena in Berlin on November 18 and a two-night stand at the Unipol Dome in Milan on November 20 and 21. From there, the tour travels to Germany for two shows at the PSD Bank Dome in Düsseldorf on November 24 and 25, moves to Paris for an evening at La Défense Arena on November 27, and lands at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on November 29 and 30. The final stretch takes in two dates at Montpellier's Sud de France Arena on December 3 and 4, before finishing in Switzerland with a double bill at Zurich's AG Hallenstadion on December 7 and 8.
The touring announcement also arrives alongside an unusual piece of administrative friction on the internet. Muse recently gave up and changed their long-held social media handles to make room for a proprietary artificial intelligence feature launched by Meta. Bellamy mentioned that Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg handed him an early beta build of the technology personally before the wider public saw it, providing an oddly corporate technological backdrop to an arena trek built around signals from deep space.
