We joke, but the string section recording is about as far from hard rock as you'd expect Muse to go, but that doesn't mean that recording with an orchestra is indicative of the new Muse album as a whole. The video was posted with the caption "Milan strings."

At this point, Muse have been recording the band's seventh album for two-and-a-half months and are reportedly working with the legendary Robert John "Mutt" Lange. And while recording could conceivably continue indefinitely, the adding of strings onto a song shows significant process in their recording and could indicate that the next Muse album will be available sooner rather than later.