Since Muse performed in session for us, they've played many dates around the world and capped it all by winning Kerrang!'s Best Live Band award.

So when did Muse go from a popular outfit to a sure contender for most-loved British rock band? The turning point could well have been Glastonbury 2004, when their Sunday-night headline performance stole the show and has since gone down as one of the legendary festival's all-time greats.

Muse's confidence as a live rock spectacle grows with each record, and surely now they can finally put paid to all the early Radiohead comparisons and stand apart as a great British band, with their own brand of emotive falsetto-vocal theatrics, virtuosic guitar solos and singalong, prog-rock anthems.

The band's latest album, Black Holes & Revelations, reveals their more playful, dancey side, witnessed in the seriously sexy stomping first single, Supermassive Black Hole. It's garnered the band a 2006 Mercury Music Prize nomination and five Kerrang! Award nominations, and is proving pretty popular with our friends over the pond, entering the US Billboard album chart at No 9.

In part two of Muse's impressive session, watch them play the melodic, winsome new single Starlight and new album track Map Of The Problematique, vintage cuts Stockholm Syndrome and Plug In Baby, and more new tracks, Supermassive Black Hole and Knights Of Cydonia.

Watch Muse live in the uniquely intimate setting of an AOL Session, because with the way things are going for this trio it's unlikely you'll get to see them up close and personal any time soon.

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- Visit Muse's official website

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