Hear MUSE's New Song 'Cryogen'

By Michael Angulia | Published: Apr 24, 2026 4:22 PM EDT

MUSE have released a new track called "Cryogen." The song is the third single that band has released from their forthcoming 10th studio album "The Wow! Signal" that is set to hit stores on June 26th.

Warner Records shared these details: "Cryogen" is urgent and explosive across its entire five minutes. After a squelching intro, MUSE let loose a sky-scraping spiral of guitar before plunging into a roiling pool of smashing drums, grinding bass, and dramatic vocals.

Throughout it all, Matt Bellamy paints a vivid picture of a man so deep in the thrall of another that he's envisioned his tormentor as a frozen moon of Jupiter, and himself as a lost speck on the surface: "Winter's end, she's Europa, I'm a cracked interloper / Icicles pierce my heart so cruel and quiet / Loneliness, she left me trembling in a polar desert / Wilderness, I'm breaking." The falsetto-streaked chorus spells out the narrator's doom: "Cryogen, I can never cry again / Cryogen, I'm freezing over."

Despite the frigid theme, "Cryogen" is all fireworks, all the time. The song was written and produced by MUSE with Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon, Blink-182) - who performs keys and additional guitar in the MUSE live band - with additional production from Aleks von Korff. That's the same team behind March's hopeful lead single "Be With You," a powerful swirl of driving electronica and searing stadium rock that DORK predicted will "undoubtedly become a euphoric festival favorite in the summers to come."

MUSE will bring the album's world directly to fans with an extensive North American amphitheater run, starting with a July 2 headliner at Milwaukee's Summerfest and culminating at Los Angeles' iconic Hollywood Bowl on August 31.