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  • Colbert Bump:
    • They weren't exactly unpopular to begin with, but views for their song "Bonfire" appear to have gone up thanks to its being featured in an episode of Breaking Bad. Many commentators on YouTube thank the show for introducing them to it.
    • "Battle Sirens", their collaboration with Tom Morello received a significant boost in views after being featured in Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath's trailer.
  • Creator Backlash: Rob seems to really hate "LRAD" now, likely because of the many, many, many imitators of that style, to the point of basically restarting Pendulum because he's so angry at the current state of electro house.
  • Development Hell:
    • Due to their perfectionist tendencies, their EPs have a history of never coming out on time. Case in point: their third EP was originally supposed to come out around Valentine's Day.
    • Abandon Ship was originally slated for August 2014, being moved to the end of October at the last minute instead. And then it got shoved back to early November, right before being pushed back one more week to mid November.
      • And then this got subverted for Abandon Ship, when the finished album accidentally went up for sale on iTunes on November 7th, which was actually earlier than the two pushed-back dates.
  • Follow the Leader: Ever since their rise to popularity, many producers have attempted to emulate their Sensory Abuse style of electro house, with varied results.
    • Although they were far from the first producers to invent the "banger house" variant, the popularity of "LRAD" (their entry into this style) led to a flood of producers creating similar sounding songs, with just a kick drum and a offbeat pluck. Due to this, Rob Swire has come to regret LRAD.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: Several unreleased songs, including "Baghdad" (which was pulled from the Haunted House EP at the last minute) and "Piledriver" (their collaboration with Steve Aoki). Rob has publicly said that "Piledriver" isn't coming out because he thinks "its a piece of shit".
  • Money, Dear Boy: Part of the reason Rob Swire shifted gears from Pendulum to Knife Party is because it was significantly less expensive and difficult to tour as a dubstep duo than it was as a drum-and-bass band.
  • No Export for You: Their remix of Labrinth's "Last Time" can only be legitimately bought on the UK iTunes store (through no fault of Knife Party themselves - "We don't control what happens to remixes"). Thankfully, they avert Digital Piracy Is Evil.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • There are many, many unreleased demos of collaborations with other artists, including "Zoology" with Skrillex and the aforementioned "Piledriver" with Steve Aoki. Baghdad was handed off to Hardwell for him to finish, but never materialized, and with Rob explicitly stating that Abandon Ship will have no collaborations, it appears none of these songs ever will.
    • One AMA on Reddit had Rob give an update status on several unreleased IDs. While some projects he expressed interest in releasing (with one of them eventually becoming a Pendulum song called Nothing For Free), several other tracks, most notably a collaboration with Oliver Heldens, were scrapped due to both parties hating the final product.

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