Friend-of-Muse Andy Burrows tweeted about Muse's new album this evening, providing us with its first glowing review - from someone not working on the project.

Although the initial tweet didn't confirm that the album in question was the new Muse release, Andy - who supported Muse with his band on some stadium shows in 2010 - confirmed in a reply to @hyperdarkchoc that he was referring to their new album.

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Just listening with my friend to his bands' new album. Holy crap, huge band about to get even more huge methinks .....

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Muse are set to do gigs at the O2 in London and Bercy in Paris in October according to a fan who met Dom and Chris today. According to @chrissygirl92, the shows will precede the release of the new album in November, and the band will be finished in the studio in the next ten days to two weeks. There will also be a single before the new album's release in November.

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We've started hearing reports (from fans who've spoken to both Matt and Dom) that the album release date is likely to be mid-end September.

A few Musers from the official forum were lucky enough to bump into Matt recently. Matt disclosed a few nuggets of information regarding LP 6, future tours and the possibility of performing at the London Olympics. Here's their account:

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This is my info. Ok here it goes.
Me and 3 other musers met Matt today - can I just point out how awesome he is for getting out of his car just to come talk to us!

Ok so here's the news:
- Recording is going really well, he kept emphasizing on "really" - he seemed extremely excited.
- They were asked to play the Olympics - he seems like he didn't mean to say that haha but yeah so there's a good chance!
- They'll start gigs in September
- The album will be finished in late April/May and it will come out in either September or October depending on how things go
- The picture Tom tweeted were song names but he said that some will be changed and that they were all really drunk when that was posted

I think that's about it!

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Muse posted the following picture and then promptly removed it from their Twitter. The background of the photo has a dry erase board with possible track listings from the new album (if based on visual queues from The Making of Absolution)

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Muse have been nominated for 3 NME awards this year - Best Live Act, Best British Band and Worst Band.
Matt Bellamy and Dominic Howard have both been nominated for sexiest male, whilst Matt has been nominated for Hero of the Year. Muse fans have been nominated for most dedicated fans of the year!

You can vote in the NME Awards here

Over the last few years, Muse have kindly provided their fans with a little Christmas present. This year is no exception, with the release of the fantastic Megalomania, live from the Royal Albert Hall gig ( 2008 ). Click here to download the video, or watch the Youtube clip below!

In a recent interview with NME, Chris Wolstenholme hinted at a new direction for the band's 6th LP: 'It feels like it's time to do something radically different on our next album'

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Muse's Chris Wolstenholme has said that the band want to do something "radically different" on their next album.

With the band currently working on the follow-up to their 2009 album 'The Resistance', the bassist told Kerrang! magazine that it felt like they were "drawing a line" under their past and were eager to embrace new ideas.

He said: [The band] feel like we are drawing a line under a certain period of what we've done in our career. It feels like it's time to move on and do something radically different.
However, he also admitted that it wasn't always easy to progress and push their sound forward, adding: "But then you could get into the studio and go back to what you're comfortable with. You get in the studio and there's a natural process and you have to see where a song will take you."

Muse's new LP will be their sixth studio album and is due to be released in late 2012. The band have not given any details on who will be acting as producer for the record as yet.

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Muse have been the centre of a hoax claiming that they have split up, due to an argument between band members.

The fake news article concerning the supposed break up had been apparently posted on NME's website, only for it to be taken down and then replaced with an article confirming the hoax was indeed false.

The rumour was dismissed by a representative of the band.