10 Rock Bands That Wrote Songs In Different Genres

10. Exogenesis - Muse

Every stripe of prog rock band has always had a bit of a fascination with the world of classical music. Aside from bands that wrote songs that went on for nearly 7 hours with tons of scale exercises, many prog musicians began to take their talents into the realm of classical music on their own, from Tony Banks from Genesis dipping into the classical world and even Jethro Tull doing a version of Bach's Bouree in E Minor during their early days. It's one thing to remind people of their music classes, but Muse were looking to go for the real deal at the end of The Resistance.

We were already being prepared for the classical turn with Exogenesis earlier on the album though, as Matthew Bellamy sprinkled bits and pieces from classical pieces on the back half of both United States of Eurasia and I Belong To You. Spanning into 3 different parts, each section of this symphony feels like it could work as its own standalone piece, like the strings going down smoothly on Cross-Pollination before closing things down with Redemption.

While this could have easily been a classical itch that Muse needed to get out of their system, they didn't stop at just this album either, with their epic the Globalist off of Drones also having a classical slant, almost like Citizen Erased somehow got co-opted into a grand orchestral track halfway through. Regardless of how over the top something like this could have come across in the wrong hands, Matthew Bellamy knows the importance of ramping things up and keeping it subtle even without a guitar in his hands.