10 Greatest Sequel Songs In Rock Music History

10. The Globalist - Muse

Given that Muse always had a prog rock side to them, it makes sense that they would make a sequel to their classics sooner or later. Ever since the 2nd Law though, it looked like they were about to leave most of the aggro side of their sound behind, being replaced with some more digitized elements. Drones was very much a back to basics record though, and things got way more ambitious towards the album's finish.

Being centered around the idea of drone strikes wiping out humanity, The Globalist feels like the moment where everything starts to crumble, as the era of technology takes over and lays siege onto the civilians below. While it certainly goes along with the themes of the record that Muse set out with, this song's origins actually go back over a decade earlier in the days of Origin of Symmetry.

When the band were putting together the track, they started to look at it as an extension of their first space rock epic Citizen Erased, using the same kind of foreboding sound and eventually bringing in a similar apocalyptic edge to the rest of the instruments. Though it might not directly carry on the story that we heard back in the day, this one works as a spiritual successor to what had come before. We had already been told what it would be like to be erased by the forces of space, and now it's over a decade later and we're finally seeing that plan actually get put into effect. In Muse's world, Citizen Erased was the call to action...but now we're in the endgame.