Matthew Bellamy

"Feeling Good" is a cover of a song originally from a 1965 musical (The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd). Nestlé temporarily used Muse's version in a coffee commercial without their permission.

"Knights of Cydonia" combines elements of surf rock and progressive rock to create a song which Bellamy describes as "pushing the epic side of the band to almost comical levels".^[14]^{muse wallpapers id="cite_ref-Drowned_in_Sound_14-0" class="reference">[15]} Bellamy went on to say that the album was "part dance, part rock, something we haven’t done before".^[8]

"Map of the Problematique" went in an industrial direction that was more in line with the progressive rock sound evident in previous albums and critics compared it to Depeche Mode.^[11]^{matthew bellamy pictures id="cite_ref-altpress_11-0" class="reference">[12]}^[6] "Soldier's Poem" went in a completely different direction again, as a short acoustic ballad that incorporated group vocals "reminiscent of Queen",^[6] and was compared to the ballads of Rufus Wainwright.^[12] "Invincible" was an "epic" that featured a military-style drum beat.^[13]