Muse

if all they do is play songs by Muse

Fake news. They actually play the Third Eye Blind catalogue.

One of the weirdest things about Muse: they were teenagers who were into Mega City Four and Senseless Things in about 1994

i still want to know what they were listening to when they made their first album because a lot of that is deeply strange rock music that doesn't really sound like anything else i've ever heard. it isn't very good for the most part, but where are all those weird latin-sounding chord progressions coming from, for instance

Beyond the basic tenants of classical piano, Metallica and what not (also maybe stuff John Leckie was showing them) I'm not sure what all the touchstones were, but I do know Matt's travels around Europe as a teenager and hearing lots of flamenco apparently fed into it - especially Uno.