Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

What this video is

Released June 2006 as the lead single from Muse's fourth studio album Black Holes and Revelations, 'Supermassive Black Hole' marked a deliberate genre pivot for the band, blending alternative rock with dance beats, funk, and club-influenced production informed by Matt Bellamy's time frequenting New York City clubs. The song reached number four on the UK Singles Chart. Its cultural footprint expanded dramatically…

Why it matters

A landmark document of mid-2000s UK alternative rock's dance-rock crossover moment. The video synthesises Sigismondi's established surrealist-body-horror visual grammar with a funk-inflected sonic identity unprecedented in Muse's catalogue, establishing a template for art-rock maximalism in the…

The director

Italian-Canadian director, photographer, and screenwriter (born 1965, Pescara, Italy; raised Hamilton, Ontario). Trained in painting and photography at Ontario College of Art & Design. Rose to prominence directing music videos for Marilyn Manson, The White…