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The riff ascends as the key changes to E minor, eventually climbing through the fourth and fifth to revisit the chorus one last time.Īs the final chorus ends, riffs give way to arpeggiated chords as the song builds to a dramatic climax, at which point the tempo suddenly drops and Bellamy howls over a chromatic bassline played by Wolstenholme. Wolstenholme continues this motif as Bellamy launches into a guitar solo, filled with pitch-shifting effects, tapping and chromatic melodies. Before long, the stop-start chugging guitars give way to another tapping solo, and eventually the verse and chorus repeat again.įollowing the second chorus, Howard drums in unison with Bellamy as he plays the primary riff.
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The riff climbs chromatically to establish a new tonal centre in the G Mixolydian mode, providing a strong chorus for Bellamy's declaration that he is ready to become a reaper. The verse follows the Andalusian cadence twice, a chord progression also found in Citizen Erased and Resistance, with Wolstenholme's bass walking across the ninth of each chord.īellamy and Wolstenholme play in unison for the primary guitar riff, which uses the D minor pentatonic scale and is backed by a "Drones!" chant. The lyrics make reference to the "AGM-114 Hellfire" air-to-surface missile commonly used in aerial combat vehicles. Eventually rooting in D minor, the verse establishes an urgent air of desperation, as Bellamy sings of domestic conflict and drone warfare. Guitar feedback and pounding drums introduce the song before Bellamy lunges into a tapped guitar solo with an unstable tonal center. Reapers is perhaps one of the most progressive songs in Muse's catalog, featuring prominent use of modulation, demanding guitar work and an uncharacteristically improvised solo. The main riff of the chorus is almost the same to the intro of Rage Against the Machine's Bombtrack, while the outro is similar to Rage Against the Machine's Freedom outro, which they also played after Stockholm Syndrome on The 2nd Law tour. This song heavily shows the influence of Rage Against the Machine on Muse. In the end, faint, distorted and electronic voices saying "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" appear. but traces of the song can be traced back to 2008 as an intro to Stockholm Syndrome as seen in footage from Muse live at the Grand Rex in Argentina. The tapping intro used to be played as an outro to Plug In Baby in The Resistance Tour with the riff developing through the same tour. Matt also mentions them in the song "Reapers and Hawks". There are 'Drones' under the name "MQ-9 Reaper", Muse used photos of various drones with a similar look to this kind of drones in their instagram photos. The song features a large amount of falsetto singing and guitar solos. Reapers is about not having empathy at all, the reason why words like ‘babe’ appear is because Matt tried to mix a political and a personal side to it. 15 th March 2015 (full), 23 rd November 2007 (riff)Ģ4 th June 2016 (full), 15 th October 2019 (shortened)Ģ014/2015 - The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, Canada