# Unravelling (Muse song)
**Unravelling** is a song by the English rock band [Muse](https://www.edgepedia.org/muse-band), released as a single on June 20, 2025 and later included as the eighth track on their tenth studio album *The Wow! Signal* (2026). It was the band's first new music since their 2022 album *Will of the People*.[1](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf) • [2](https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/muse-announce-the-wow-signal-europa-tour-in-support-of-their-forthcoming-tenth-album)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | June 20, 2025, as a single; released via Warner Records[1](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf) |
| Album placement | Track 8 of 10 on *The Wow! Signal*; first of five album singles issued between June 2025 and 2026[2](https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/muse-announce-the-wow-signal-europa-tour-in-support-of-their-forthcoming-tenth-album) • [3](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/1075354-unravelling/) |
| Duration | 3:58 on the album; the single release lists 1 song, 3 minutes[3](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/1075354-unravelling/) • [4](https://music.apple.com/us/album/unravelling-single/1818597942) |
| Songwriting and production | Written by Matt Bellamy and Dan Lancaster; produced by Lancaster with Dominic Howard, Christopher Wolstenholme, and Bellamy; additional producer Aleks Von Korff[3](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/1075354-unravelling/) • [1](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf) |
| Live debut | June 12, 2025 at Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland, opening the band's 2025 European tour[5](https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/muse-53d6ebd5.html?songid=39145df) |
| Signature instrument | An 8-string guitar, used by Bellamy on the track and at live performances[6](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/sbeve/album/1351831-unravelling/) • [7](https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2025/06/22/la-chaleur-est-montee-d-un-cran-au-hellfest-avec-turnstile-the-cult-et-muse_6615275_3246.html) |
| Reception | User score of 81 based on 980 ratings on Album of the Year[3](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/1075354-unravelling/) |
## Release and live debut
Muse announced the single on June 20, 2025, describing it as their first new music since *Will of the People* (2022), the band's seventh consecutive UK number-one album. Teasers for the track circulated online before the band debuted it at a warm-up show at the House of Culture in Helsinki; setlist.fm records the first live performance as June 12, 2025 at Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, the opening night of the band's European tour.[1](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf) • [5](https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/muse-53d6ebd5.html?songid=39145df) Two days later the band played it to a 50,000-strong audience during their headline set at Finland's Rockfest on June 14, 2025.[1](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf)
The single was released under exclusive license to Warner Music UK Limited, with the copyright line ℗ 2025 Torpack Limited, and Apple Music categorizes it as Alternative.[4](https://music.apple.com/us/album/unravelling-single/1818597942)
## Music and lyrics
The label's press release describes the song as putting a new spin on the genre-clash creativity associated with Muse: haunting, arpeggiated synths establish a foreboding tone before the song detonates into a wall of riffs with a full-drama hook.[1](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf) The chorus includes the lines "Feeling the glow die inside of our bones / This is a hymn for our love with no God and no throne".[8](https://www.hivemagazine.net/music-reviews/muse-unravelling) Reviewers noted a turn away from the political subject matter of *Will of the People*, with the lyrics returning to religion and love.[6](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/sbeve/album/1351831-unravelling/)
The song is built around [Matt Bellamy](https://www.edgepedia.org/matt-bellamy)'s 8-string guitar, an instrument he had previously only teased with the song "Won't Stand Down" (2022).[6](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/sbeve/album/1351831-unravelling/) The French newspaper *Le Monde*, reviewing Muse's Hellfest set on June 20, 2025, called it an electro-metal single and noted that Bellamy opened the concert with it on the eight-string.[7](https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2025/06/22/la-chaleur-est-montee-d-un-cran-au-hellfest-avec-turnstile-the-cult-et-muse_6615275_3246.html) Fan and critical commentary frequently compared the guitar tone to [Mick Gordon](https://www.edgepedia.org/mick-gordon-composer)'s *Doom: Dark Ages* soundtrack and detected a djent-influenced heaviness alongside the band's customary synths.[6](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/sbeve/album/1351831-unravelling/) • [9](https://musingsonmusic.substack.com/p/song-review-muse-unravelled)
**Production credits.** Dan Lancaster, a multiple Grammy nominee known for work with Bring Me The Horizon and [Blink-182](https://www.edgepedia.org/blink-182), produced the track and performs keyboards and additional guitar in Muse's live band.[1](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf) On the album, [Lancaster](https://www.edgepedia.org/lancaster) is also credited as mixing engineer, mastering engineer, and programmer, with Bellamy, Howard, and Wolstenholme as co-producers.[3](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/1075354-unravelling/)
## Place in The Wow! Signal
*Unravelling* became the lead single for *The Wow! Signal*, announced in March 2026 as Muse's tenth studio album and first since *Will of the People*, released June 26 through Warner/Helium 3.[10](https://www.loudersound.com/music/music-videos/wow-muse-return-with-suitably-bombastic-new-single-as-they-announce-tenth-studio-album) The band released five songs from the ten-track album ahead of its issue: Unravelling in June 2025, followed by [Be With You](https://www.edgepedia.org/be-with-you), Cryogen, Hexagons, and [Nightshift Superstar](https://www.edgepedia.org/nightshift-superstar) in 2026.[2](https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/muse-announce-the-wow-signal-europa-tour-in-support-of-their-forthcoming-tenth-album) The song was used to open concerts on the 2025 festival tour, including stops at Hellfest, Pinkpop, Tons of Rock, STHLM Fields, Open'er Festival, Mad Cool, and NOS Alive.[1](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf) • [11](https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-07-11/el-empuje-de-muse-levanta-un-accidentado-inicio-de-mad-cool.html)
## Reception
The single drew broadly favorable responses from fans and reviewers. On Album of the Year it holds a user score of 81 from 980 ratings, and user reviews called it the band's best song in years, with several comparing it favorably to the band's earlier albums.[3](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/1075354-unravelling/) • [12](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/1351831-muse-unravelling/user-reviews/?p=2&show=all) The reviewer Carter Freemon wrote that the song's riff-driven pre-chorus recalled the band's *Absolution* and *[Origin of Symmetry](https://www.edgepedia.org/origin-of-symmetry)* era while still using abundant synths, calling it "technocratic metal with a hint of djent".[9](https://musingsonmusic.substack.com/p/song-review-muse-unravelled) Critical opinion was not uniform: a review at Cult Following dismissed the song as a retreat to familiar formulas and criticized its lyrics.[13](https://cultfollowing.co.uk/2025/06/28/muse-unravelling-review/)
## References
1. [Muse Return With Powerful New Single "Unravelling" (Warner Records press release, June 20, 2025)](https://press.warnerrecords.com/sites/g/files/g2000014901/files/2025-06/MUSE%20RETURN%20WITH%20POWERFUL%20NEW%20SINGLE%20UNRAVELLING.pdf)
2. [Muse announce The Wow! Signal Europa Tour (Louder Sound, June 12, 2026)](https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/muse-announce-the-wow-signal-europa-tour-in-support-of-their-forthcoming-tenth-album)
3. [Muse – Unravelling song credits and ratings, Album of the Year](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/song/1075354-unravelling/)
4. [Unravelling – Single, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/unravelling-single/1818597942)
5. [Unravelling by Muse song statistics, setlist.fm](https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/muse-53d6ebd5.html?songid=39145df)
6. [Muse – Unravelling review by Sbeve, Album of the Year (June 21, 2025)](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/sbeve/album/1351831-unravelling/)
7. [Au Hellfest... avec Turnstile, The Cult et Muse, Le Monde (June 22, 2025)](https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2025/06/22/la-chaleur-est-montee-d-un-cran-au-hellfest-avec-turnstile-the-cult-et-muse_6615275_3246.html)
8. [MUSE — 'UNRAVELLING', Hive Magazine](https://www.hivemagazine.net/music-reviews/muse-unravelling)
9. [Song Review: Muse – "Unravelling", Carter Freemon, Musings on Music (June 23, 2025)](https://musingsonmusic.substack.com/p/song-review-muse-unravelled)
10. [Muse return with bombastic new single as they announce tenth studio album (Louder Sound, March 19, 2026)](https://www.loudersound.com/music/music-videos/wow-muse-return-with-suitably-bombastic-new-single-as-they-announce-tenth-studio-album)
11. [El empuje de Muse levanta un accidentado inicio de Mad Cool, El País (July 11, 2025)](https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-07-11/el-empuje-de-muse-levanta-un-accidentado-inicio-de-mad-cool.html)
12. [Muse – Unravelling user reviews, Album of the Year](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/1351831-muse-unravelling/user-reviews/?p=2&show=all)
13. [Muse – Unravelling Review, Cult Following (June 28, 2025)](https://cultfollowing.co.uk/2025/06/28/muse-unravelling-review/)
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