10 Bands Who Were Justified In Changing Sounds

10. Muse

Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard have been jamming out as Muse since the mid 1990s and regularly dabble in experimental sounds and genres with each release they collaborate on.

Whilst songs such as Starlight and Knights of Cydonia have become some of the most mainstream sounding rocks songs in the British scene and synonyms with the band itself, Muse's origins were far from this sort of scene. Having been evolving during the heyday of underground grunge music courtesy of the likes of Radiohead, the band's early songs are far more aggressive-sounding than what most would expect to hear these days.

A sort of goth-glam group, it wasn't until the start of the 2000s that Muse really began embracing a more radio-friendly vibe, producing one of the most famous covers of the Broadway classic hit Feeling Good during the production of Origin of Symmetry in 2001.

Building on this, Muse would continue along this road with Absolution in 2003 and then again with Black Holes and Revelations, arguably their most iconic and easily their most successful release having topped the UK charts, in 2006.