Matt Bellamy Muse: World War Z premiere

Matt Bellamy of Muse was thrilled that the makers of big-budget zombie action flick World War Z chose two of his band’s songs to feature on the soundtrack – with his son’s heartbeat featuring on both tracks.

The proud dad, who has a son named Bingham with Hollywood star Kate Hudson, explained his happy coincidence on the red carpet of the film’s world premiere in London’s  Leicester Square on Sunday.

‘I had a baby just before we made the album and I recorded my son’s heartbeat in utero a few days before he was born,’ he said, adding that he was actually reading the novel version of World War Z during the album-making process.

‘The heartbeat sound is now the base of two songs and those were the two songs that they picked. I’m not sure if my son’s heartbeat had anything to do with being in a zombie film. It’s pretty far out!’

Little Bingham Bellamy can be heard beating his own rhythm on Olympic theme tune Survival and The 2nd Law: Isolated System, both of which were used for the Brad Pitt flick’s soundtrack.

The zombie thriller is not the first time Muse have had their music attached to a major film release, as they also appeared on the soundtrack to the Twilight movies.

‘They liked to get dramatic music,’ Matt said of providing a tune for the Twilight trailers.

‘We thought that was going to be a small indie film, but it turned out to be huge. This we knew would be big because they asked us to score the film and we weren’t available but we collaborated and are glad to have got the song in.’

[Originally published Metro Guilty Pleasures 3 June 2013]