Trivia / Pendulum (Band)

• Black Sheep Hit:
  • In the United States, Hold Your Colour is probably their most well-known album, despite being very different stylistically to their other albums. Pretty much averted everywhere else though.
  • "The Island" is this for the entire band, being a House song.
• Bury Your Art: Shortly before creating Pendulum, Rob and Gareth were a part of a Nu Metal band called Xygen. They really don't like to talk about Xygen, and only a full song and half a track are publicly available. Also crosses over with Canon Discontinuity, as "Hold Your Colour" outright samples a Xygen song.
• Content Leak: The cover art for the Elemental EP was posted on VK about a month before it was officially revealed.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Rob admitted in an AMA on Reddit that he really doesn't like In Silico all that much, due to the album's Tough Act to Follow status amongst the fandom following Hold Your Colour as well as realizing the album wasn't as good as he thought it was after being released.
  • As a whole, Rob has also admitted to disliking Pendulum a lot during the band's main days, as he felt the songs created got very repetitive fast, and the Drum n' Bass community was quite toxic overall. These factors were ultimately why Rob and Gareth would start up Knife Party instead, although they would later return to Pendulum starting in 2017.
• Creator Breakdown: After releasing Immersion in 2010, Rob made it adamant that he and Gareth had little interest in continuing to make music with Pendulum due to growing disillusioned with the drum-and-bass community, and because they wanted to focus on their dubstep-based Knife Party project instead. Over time, Rob has shown more interest in returning to Pendulum, which culminated in a Remix Album being released in 2018, and two new singles being released in September of 2020 and the whole EP being released in June 2021.
• Dye Hard: Rob Swire's hair is naturally a light brown, but you can't really tell now.
• Missing Episode:
  • Ransom. Originally slated for release on "Immersion", it was partially previewed and became a fan favorite, but was dropped for the final release due to the band believing it didn't fit with the sound of the album and "got boring after the intro". It appeared to be lost due to the final version's project files being corrupted, but eventually reached the light of day as it was released as a charity single in April 2011 to benefit earthquake aid appeal for Japan.
  • Until May 2024, "Still Grey" was not available on Spotify because Spotify initially only had the reissue version of Hold Your Colour, which "Still Grey" is not on.
• Rarely Performed Song: "Visions", one of the vocal Pendulum tracks off of In Silico that never got played and never will be played live, likely due to the type of vocoder used in the track.
• The Red Stapler: Rob Swire's use of the Starr Labs Ztar Z6 model MIDI guitar controller on songs where he does vocals led to MIDI guitar controllers regaining popularity after
• What Could Have Been: "Nothing For Free" was initially going to be a Knife Party track, but it was repurposed for this band in 2020 instead.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Starting in the 2010s, Rob and Gareth started focusing more on their side project, Knife Party in lieu of Pendulum due to their dissatisfaction with fans harassing them for new material and disliking the music they made. Pendulum became more of a DJ set, but the fanbase kept asking for a fourth album. However, the band began playing live again in 2016, and come late 2020, teases of a fourth album have been implied, and an EP was released the following year.