The Pendulum Appreciation-Thread

[ACID_FOX]

Immersion is seriously one of my favourite albums of all time.

[Sigz]

Noisia is the best them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqf8kDeMWDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg6vtfYdggc

[Ben_Jamin]

The island is an amazing song. Immersion has to be one of my favorite blind buys so far. It's the type of music I was looking for that I would enjoy.

[Gorille85]

So the band is now on indefinite hiatus??? D:

[Zantera]

So the band is now on indefinite hiatus??? D:

Only from touring. The reason is because they will record the new album, which will come out in 2013. As far as I know at least. Knife Party is pretty cool, but no Pendulum.

[Gorille85]

"Swire has recently hinted and announced to several fans on his Twitter page that Pendulum "no longer exists", as Knife Party is now his primary project."

[Zantera]

Yeah, I know about that, but time will tell. Feels kinda lame if he's following the Dubstep-trend.

[Zantera]

It seems like pretty much all the band members except for Rob has denied the fact that the band would be splitting. My guess is that Rob wants a little break from it all, and in that sense he felt frustrated when people kept coming to Knife Party concerts with Pendulum-stuff to sign and wanting to talk about the band.
Good news. Hopefully Rob can say something about it soon as well, I really don't want Pendulum to split up. Immersion had tons of variety, and it felt like they were bringing Pendulum into a direction where they could do whatever they wanted to, and it's not like Hold Your Colour (which is still amazing) that had more of a "one style"-direction. (It's still tied with Immersion for me though)

I do think the whole "hinting about breakup" is such a dick thing to do. I remember back when there was rumours about Oceansize (before they announced the split up) and it was like a 3 week long nightmare before anything was actually announced. A video on their website with "Superman retires" and shit like that, and I honestly hope I will never have to endure something similar again. 
But yeah, Rob shouldn't be offended if people wants to talk about Pendulum, it's fans after all, people who love his work.

[faemir]

The latest Oceansize news on why they broke up shows just how dramatic it all was, though we still don't know the details.

[Zantera]

The latest Oceansize news on why they broke up shows just how dramatic it all was, though we still don't know the details.

It still feels lame that they haven't given a proper reason. I'm not saying that they should be pointing fingers, but something like "we wanted different things" or whatever would be fine, rather that then nothing.

Regarding Pendulum, I think everyone except for Rob has denied the rumours about a split up. Hopefully we'll still get a 2013-album.

[Ben_Jamin]

I am sad they aren't touring. Immersion has some great songs that I'm really getting into.

[Sigz]

It's official: https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/pendulum-throw-in-the-towel/

It looks as though Perth-born London-bred electronica piece Pendulum have reneged on a statement they made to fans at last year’s V Festival in the UK, explaining that they will be on hiatus. However, we have now learned that the touring, recording force known as Pendulum is no more.

In a recent interview with triple j, Rob Swire, one half of the creative due behind Pendulum which took form a decade ago in Perth, confessed that it stopped being fun. However, fans can let out a sigh of relief, as this isn’t the last we’ve heard of Swire and counterpart Gareth McGrillen, who will bring their side project Knife Party to the front burner.

“The Knife Party thing is going so well we don’t really feel like going back to junior school anytime soon”, Swire told triple j’s Linda Marigliano. “I guess we’d been doing Pendulum for ten years and that’s a pretty long time to be doing anything, I guess. We were still playing tracks like Blood Sugar that we made when we were 18 or 19. To still be doing that 10 years later, it just felt like time to do something else.”

Pendulum, who were known for their live band formation, became more of a chore for the musicians, with Swire continuing to say: “Rock bands are having a pretty hard time at the moment and we weren’t a rock band, but with Pendulum we had the band format. We just decided that in 2012 it was time to put that down for a bit.”

Knife Party has already pricked up a lot of ears; their electro-driven house music with a slight tinge of dubstep has come like a breath of fresh air to the pair: “We’re having too much fun with this project. It’s also great because Pendulum towards the end sort of felt like we were doing it because we had to and that’s never a fun way to do music. Whereas Knife Party is pretty much solely us doing what we want to, and if no one likes it we don’t care.”

So, we have been presented with a double edged sword. Swire has confirmed there will be no new Pendulum dates in the foreseeable future and no album on the horizon, but instead we get something new, something fresh to get obsessed with all over again!

[Zantera]

Sad news, but could see them coming.
As much as I like Knife Party, I'm not really super into Dubstep, to me it feels like one of the least interesting subgenres of Electronica, but I'll still be following.

[BanksD]

Wow that saddens me. 

[FretMuppet]

What a shame I hope this isn't the end of Pendulum's career, I hope they make a great comeback when they feel refreshed, if they feel refreshed

[YtseJamittaja]

For DT (Devin Townsend actually ) and Pendulum fans, here is my remix with The Island Part 1 and Devin's Save Our Now played at the same time. If somebody hasn't seen it yet, watch it right away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puLXEkZPjPU   

[Buddyhunter1]

Hey guys,
We all know that Slam, Showdown, and Salt In The Wounds are essentially the same song. I decided to figure out just how similar they were.
The result was this. Enjoy.

Slam/Salt In The Wounds: (My personal favorite)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fM1g0xA5BM

Slam/Showdown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubRJsuWzOc

Showdown/Salt In The Wounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANgIZZoevkI

All three at once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dl7OSCcwEg

[Train of Naught]

It's happening guys... https://m.facebook.com/pendulum/videos/10153964081706153/

It could just be a tour announcement, though part of me thinks new material is coming our way this year aswell 

[Zantera]

Actually they are playing the Ultra festival. There's really no other news about more touring or new music as far as I know, but hopefully reuniting for this festival has a positive effect where they like playing music together again, and it leads to something.