Rich Costey's photos from the making of BHAR
"20 years ago Muse’s “Black Holes and Revelations” was released. Making it was a pretty intense ride across different countries and studios, finishing with mixing at Townhouse in London. There’s a lot to say about the process as some songs went through quite a bit of evolution: recording, re-recording, going back to the demo, then recording again, etc and I think there was also a sense of keeping things bespoke as opposed to store-bought. I’ve included a photo of the session note for the guitar sound on “Map of the Problematique” which took me nearly three days to put together, and which was based off a patch Matt was playing on his JP8000. I’ve also posted a photo of a session note for Chris’s bass rig, as I’ve seen some folks discussing what might have been used for this particular album. 20 years goes by fast- make sure to hug your family, friends, and pets."