you know, i've tried to get into muse so many times, and i can get behind the epic grandiosity in principle, but i just don't know how you guys can handle those vocals without throwing things at your stereo and pleading with them to stop.
back in the 90s, there was a band from canada called the tea party. edges of twilight. transmission. great discs, check 'em out - and with vocals that don't produce a "strangle" response.