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"Muse have revealed that their latest album The 2nd Law was inspired by World War Z. The band have contributed two tracks to the upcoming film adaptation&amp;#039;s soundtrack, but frontman Matt Bellamy admitted that their latest album The 2nd Law was influenced by the book.   &amp;quot;When we were making the album, I was reading the book World War Z, so it was kind of ideal,&amp;quot; Bellamy told MTV. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t know about anything about the film at that time; I was just reading it because somebody told me it was a great book.  &amp;quot;The album&amp;#039;s got a lot of themes about the apocalypse, the end of the world, surviving in bleak circumstances... it was just a lovely coincidence that we had these tracks that are inspired by the book.&amp;quot;  Brad Pitt explained that he reached out to Muse when he heard The 2nd Law, after searching for an iconic track for the film. &amp;quot;Two years ago, we wanted to find - remember the theme from The Exorcist? It&amp;#039;s called &amp;#039;Tubular Bells&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; Pitt said. &amp;quot;We wanted to find something like that.  &amp;quot;At the same time, these guys were reading the book, unbeknownst to us, and were fans of the book. They wrote the album... [and] on it, we found the song, &amp;#039;The 2nd Law&amp;#039;, that we thought was exactly what we were looking for for the film.  &amp;quot;It just kind of worked out in a nice, kismet kind of way.&amp;quot; Muse performed at the London premiere of World War Z last week in front of a 15,000-strong crowd. Watch Muse perform &amp;#039;Knights of Cydonia&amp;#039; after the World War Z premiere below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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