Aware that the biggest hit from last album The 2nd Law came in the form of the ballad "Madness," Bellamy promised of the new material, "It's gonna get heavy.

"I have this strong feeling that the next album should be something that really does strip away the additional things that we've experimented with on the last two albums, which is electronics, symphonics and orchestral work and all that kind of stuff," the singer told Rolling Stone in December.