Muse Share Apocalyptic Europa Video for “Cryogen” Ahead of The Wow! Signal

Muse have released a stark, cinematic video for “Cryogen”, the latest single from their forthcoming album The Wow! Signal, due June 26. The clip, directed by Elliott Gonzo, stages the band on Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa — a setting that reframes Muse’s familiar grandeur as something colder and more claustrophobic.

The song itself arrived last month after a live debut at their intimate Brixton Academy gig, and follows last year’s “Unravelling” and the recent lead single “Be With You” that introduced the band’s incoming 10th LP.

Gonzo stages the band at the base of a blood-red waterfall while Matt Bellamy treks through a blistering polar desert in search of the ring-like aircraft that appeared in the “Be With You” video. The UFO breaks the surface of the sea, emits a piercing red beam and the sequence snaps to black — a tidy, apocalyptic flourish that leaves the mystery unresolved.

Musically, “Cryogen” is explicitly in conversation with Muse’s past. It trades in the gothic space-rock textures of 2001’s Origin Of Symmetry and the widescreen, arena-ready sweep of 2006’s Black Holes & Revelations, arriving at a thunderous breakdown that feels both referential and finished. Production comes from live member Dan Lancaster (Bring Me The Horizon, Blink-182) with additional work by Aleks von Korff, and the mix gives the track a slick sense of completion rather than a retread.

Lyrically, Bellamy paints heartbreak against an apocalyptic backdrop: “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…Cryogen, I can never cry again / Cryogen, I’m freezing over.” The imagery is familiar Muse territory — cosmic scale used to express intimate rupture — but here the coldness is literal and symbolic at once.

According to a press release, the album’s title nods to one of the more persistent curiosities of modern astronomy: a “powerful 72-second radio burst detected in 1977 originating from the constellation Sagittarius with a bandwidth and intensity that suggested a possible extraterrestrial source.” The astronomer who catalogued that anomaly famously circled the sequence “6EQUJ5” and scrawled “WOW!” on the printout, bequeathing the record its name and a tidy pop-cultural mythology.

Per the same statement, the record will interrogate “a mix of cosmic mystery, existential hope, and the exhilarating possibility of contact with something far greater than ourselves.” That thematic framing makes sense given the visuals and the songs released so far: Muse are leaning into their sci-fi tropes with a deliberate, high-production sheen.

The Wow! Signal lands on June 26. Alongside the new music, Muse have announced a 2026 North American arena tour with Bloc Party, The Temper Trap and Portugal. The Man; UK and European dates are expected to follow. Bellamy teased at the London show that the band would “be back in November,” suggesting a broader campaign to come.

For a band that has long trafficked in grand gestures and myth-making, “Cryogen” functions as a compact proof of concept: the old reference points are still audible, but they’re refracted through colder, more cinematic imagery. Whether that translates into a record that sits alongside their classics remains to be heard, but for now Muse are using visual spectacle to sharpen the emotional stakes of a very Muse-sized heartbreak.