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Muse unleash their best video yet with Knights Of Cydonia promo.

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Knights Of Cydonia is Muse's latest album-closing epic; a six-minute prog-rock homage to the classic cowboy scores of Ennio Morricone and the song's ambition is more than matched by top American director Joseph Kahn, who has created a sci-fi, kung-fu fighting, German porn- inspired, spaghetti western masterpiece to accompany it.

"The only thing it said in the original spec was that they wanted `futuristic cowboys'," says Kahn. "As soon as I saw those two words, I got really depressed. I knew it would be perfect for me, but I thought it just wouldn't happen. I've had songs before where I wanted the song so badly and hadn't got it. Yet Matt [Bellamy, Muse's singer,] said that I was the only one who went ahead with that suggested brief.

"Sometimes you try and put the brakes on yourself because it might be too `out there', but I thought, `let's just listen to that inner voice and ...

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