Here comes day 9 of Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas series for 2025. The eight posts so far have featured the Apocalypse Disco, Radiohead, Black Box Recorder, Shrub, the Postal Service, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash and Bring Me The Horizon. Many of you will know by now that this years theme is not very festive and is almost certainly our darkest theme so far. But with all the crap in the world at the moment much of it driven by Trumpelstiltskin in the partly demolished White House I thought I would celebrate Chrimbo this year with songs about the end of the world. These are twelve fabulous tracks despite the rather savage theme. Music has, and will always accompany me wherever I go, even if that is into the heart of the forthcoming (???) Armageddon! Maybe I need to make them into a playlist, what do you think? Some of you have contacted me with a resounding yes to the playlist. It will appear when we post the final installment a.k.a. day 12. There may be a surprise extra track on the day 12 posting too, keep checking in!
Today’s song is by Muse and it comes from their 2022 album ‘Will Of The People’, it is a perfect choice for this years theme, I bring you “We Are Fucking Fucked”. The album went to number one in the charts in many countries including the UK. Speaking about the origins of the album, Matt Bellamy said that “Warner Records requested a greatest hits album from Muse. Instead, the band decided to make an album that was a montage of all of those types of genres that we’ve touched on in the past and would feel like a greatest hits album of new songs.” He said that the lyrics on the album were inspired by “the increasing uncertainty and instability in the world as the Western empire and the natural world, which have cradled us for so long, are genuinely threatened. This album is a personal navigation through those fears and preparation for what comes next.” Bellamy has also described the track as “the weirdest, darkest lost B-side of Muse’s life”. So if we are truly fucking fucked, then this song is definitely a part of my Armageddon playlist!
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