Muse are planning for new album

Muse are planning a new album.

The plan on starting on the follow-up to their sixth album 'The 2nd Law' in May was revealed at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this weekend.

“We're going to go back in May and start working on some new stuff, so I think we'll start making it this year... If we can get something out this year, that would be great, but definitely next year.” drummer Dominic Howard said.

After covering Nirvana's 'Lithium' during their headline set at the festival, Howard also spoke about their influence on the band: "They were massively influential to us when we were growing up. They're one of the reasons we picked up some instruments and decided to start a band in the first place, and I think that for many other millions of people, they were influential for starting bands. We all love them, it was a band that all three of us loved and it was that kind of music and some other bands that brought us together and we became friends because of that."

Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy said that he had already started to work on something new: "I've written some good tracks, actually. We haven't had a chance to rehearse them out yet... I have this strong feeling that the next album should be something that really does strip away the additional things that we've experimented with on the last two albums, which is electronics, symphonics and orchestral work and all that kind of stuff."