Muse confirmed to switch Kings Of Leon at NOS Alive 2025
Muse have been confirmed to switch Kings Of Leon at NOS Alive 2025.
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The seventeenth version of the Lisbon pageant will likely be held between July 10 and July 12, with Olivia Rodrigo set to headline. Different big names revealed within the first wave of bulletins have been Lady In Crimson, Noah Kahan, Benson Boone, Amyl And The Sniffers and CMAT.
Later, Barry Can’t Swim, Finneas, Useless Poet Society and Foster The Folks have been additionally confirmed, and in January, Sam Fender and Vivid Eyes joined the line-up.
Initially, Kings Of Leon have been scheduled to be the headliners for Saturday (July 12), booked in following the discharge of their ninth studio album, ‘Can We Please Have Enjoyable’, which was shared final Could. Nevertheless, Wednesday (Could 28) noticed frontman Caleb Followill make the announcement that the band can be pulling out of the slot – in addition to many others – because of damage.
This, he defined, was a latest “freak accident” that noticed him break his foot and be compelled to bear emergency surgical procedure. In addition to the slot at NOS Alive, different scrapped gigs included Mad Cool Pageant in Madrid (the place they’ll additionally get replaced by Muse), two big UK reveals and different stops at festivals round Europe.
Now, Muse have joined the invoice, marking an extra date in a string of big summer time reveals later this 12 months. Alongside Linkin Park, KoRn, and Scorpions, they’ll additionally play at French metallic pageant Hellfest, which takes place between June 19-22.
Then, they’ll lead Norway’s Tons Of Rock pageant alongside Inexperienced Day and Avenged Sevenfold throughout June 25 and 28, earlier than headlining the Polish pageant Open’er on July 4.
The dates come amid hypothesis of recent music from the band, with bassist Chris Wolstenholme teasing that they’re getting ready to make a brand new album quickly. On The Leona Graham Podcast, Wolstenholme mentioned followers might anticipate a brand new file in 2026 – nevertheless, there’s a slight impediment in the best way because the band presently aren’t signed to a label.
“We’ll [sign to a label], clearly. I feel we’re gonna begin work on the subsequent file pretty quickly,” he shared. “I feel for the previous few albums we’ve been with Warner and we’ve prolonged after every album. We might do the identical once more; we might go along with a brand new label, who is aware of.”
The final album they shared was 2022’s ‘Will Of The Folks’, which NME rated 4 stars when it dropped.
“He might have been broad in his earlier political swipes, however Bellamy’s ire right here locks consistent with a rising public temper, effervescent with a really relatable anger towards those that stand in the best way of us tackling humanity’s overwhelming crises. ‘The possibilities are turning, the longer term is ours’ he proclaims. Simply present us the place to enlist.”
NOS Alive 2024 noticed performances from Pearl Jam, Dua Lipa, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sum 41, Arlo Parks and extra.