I MUSE REALIZZERANNO UN FILM AD UNA RISOLUZIONE COSI’ ALTA, MAI PRODOTTA FINO AD OGGI. MOLTO PIU’ NITIDA DELL’HD

Muse’s Matthew Bellamy performs during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV.

Muse played their second-to-last American concert date of the year at iHeartRadio in Las Vegas last night, and after next month’s Austin City Limits, it might be a while before fans see them again Stateside. “Next year, we may do one festival or two, but we’re probably going to concentrate on getting into a new album,” Muse’s Matt Bellamy told Rolling Stone backstage at iHeartRadio.

But fans will get a chance to experience a Muse concert in almost lifelike form, since the band will be releasing a concert film. “Over the summer, we played this massive gig in Rome Olympic Stadium, that was probably the best gig of the year,” Bellamy said. “It’s gonna come out in 4K, which is the highest resolution concert ever shot. It’s four times more powerful than HD, so it’s like ridiculous detail. When you see the concert being filmed, you can see all the crowd, you can see their faces being filmed.”

The exact release plans are still up in the air, but Bellamy said he expects it to get a limited theatrical release in the U.S., including some Imax screens.

It’s a rare occurence for a festival-headlining band big enough to have its own concert film to serve as an opening act, but Muse did so last night in Vegas when they performed before Queen. “Events like this didn’t exist a few years ago and we are playing with – technically opening for – Queen tonight,” Bellamy said before the show. “At any point in our career, I wouldn’t have thought we’d actually get a chance to play with them.”

The eclecticism of the iHeart lineup, which also included Elton John this year, proved an educational experience for Muse’s drummer, Dominic Howard. “Having some of those older greats on stage and seeing them play is wicked, because you can still learn so much from a lot of those kind of people that have been around for a while and got more experience than you,” he said.

Bellamy also finds it inspiring. “It’s odd because when you start out, you perceive those acts as being something really quite long before we even were born, but also well before we started,” he said. “And to somehow end up on a bill with them is quite strange because it makes you think, ‘How old are these people?’ I suppose it gives you hope for making music as an old person.”