The final track from The Resistance is a fully orchestrated symphony divided into three movements about mankind leaving Earth and populating another planet. The title refers to the hypothesis that life originated elsewhere in the universe and was spread to our planet via seeds. Singer/guitarist Matt Bellamy told Mojo magazine August 2009: "It's not orchestration you'd normally expect from a rock band and we've done all the arranging and scoring."
Bellamy described the piece to Scotland on Sunday as "an imaginary sci-fi film, where part one is showing this end of-the-world scenario, this dystopian nightmare where everything's come to its end. And a group of astronauts has been selected to travel into space to take the human species elsewhere. Then part two is the idea that they're launching away from the Earth with all these hopes and fears of what might happen. And part three is them arriving at a new planet, some kind of virgin planet, and the whole evolution process starts again. But in the process there's a realisation that maybe this is part of some cycle of human DNA travelling across the universe. Evolutionary pockets succeeding and failing in different types of planet. The whole three-part thing was based around that idea really."
The creation of this symphony dates in part to the writing period around the band's third album, Absolution (2003), and was further encouraged by Bellamy's writing of the end title music for Clive Owen's 2008 thriller The International. He told Billboard magazine: "I hope it'll surprise people with the subtlety of the orchestration. I don't think 'Exogenesis' is deliberately flamboyant in any way. Although if someone was to read the song title, they'd probably expect some really '70s prog-rock, Rush-style symphony."
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