History Music / PendulumBand

On August 21, 2013, Swire [[https://twitter.com/rob_swire/status/370401244327579648 announced]] that Pendulum will probably release a new album in 2014.

And now Swire has just announced that Pendulum will be having a new album in 2014.

* SelfBackingVocalist: Rob sings all of the harmonies and countermelodies as well as the lead melody; sometimes it's mixed as such that it's barely noticeable. Averted live, however - Gareth and Ben provide backing vocals instead.
** "Visions" deserves a special mention - during the bridge before the chorus ("Just leave this place..."), Rob is actually self-backing his ''vocoded'' vocals without vocoder. It's barely hearable, but becomes obvious if, say, your headphones happen to be partially unplugged.

--> '''Commenter''': "That's rob wishing he owned a gun during the acapella"

* LeadBassist: Gareth [=McGrillen=]

* TheStoic: Everyone tends to be this in press shots, but Rob really takes it UpToEleven, looking the scariest out of all of them and having a nearly unchanging (and/or seemingly angry) stoic expression while performing.

* PerishingAltRockVoice: Rob's vocals in earlier songs like "Hold Your Colour" and "Streamline", before he officially became the lead singer of the band for ''In Silico'' onwards. Completely averted live even when singing songs like "Hold Your Colour", however, in favor of his signature strong voice.

* BadassBookworm: Rob Swire. As well as providing all the vocals and synths on their two most recent albums, he also produced them, and [[http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun08/articles/pendulum.htm this]] interview shows just how complex a task that was.

** He also ''writes'' the songs.

* LargeHam: Ben "Verse" Mount.

* ShrinkingViolet: Watch Rob Swire closely in any interview that isn't just him. He very rarely actually says anything or looks at the camera. In fact, he is so quiet and shy that fans go nuts any time they come across him actually making ''complete sentences'' in an interview. [[PerpetualFrowner Or]] [[WhenSheSmiles smiling]].

* SpokenWordInMusic: All over the place, especially in their older songs (such as "Slam" and "Masochist"). Seems to be a favorite trope of Rob and Gareth, as it shows up often in their {{Knife Party}} tracks, too.

* PerishingAltRockVocals: Rob's vocals in earlier songs like "Hold Your Colour" and "Streamline", before he officially became the lead singer of the band for ''In Silico'' onwards. Completely averted live even when singing songs like "Hold Your Colour", however, in favor of his signature strong voice.

And now Swire has just announced that Pendulum will be having a new album in 2014. [[AndTheFandomRejoiced Much rejoicing was had.]]

* LastNoteNightmare: They seem to love ending their albums with this. '"Still Grey" from ''Hold Your Colour'' ends with a creepy synth heavy fade out. "The Tempest" ends with fifteen seconds of guitar feedback. "Encoder" ends with water splashing and a wham fading in before abruptly cutting.

* MissingEpisode Averted with "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 LostForever 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.

* {{Cult}}: The subject of Propane Nightmares. The cult in the music video is based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group) Heaven's Gate]]

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys

** Their hardest song yet, "Self vs Self" from the album ''Immersion'', is an hard 8.

* ClusterFBomb: In contrast to their music's leaning toward PrecisionFStrike, ''everyone'' curses like crazy in interviews or on social media. Rob Swire and Gareth [=McGrillen=] in particular are walking {{Cluster F-Bomb}}s online.

* ClusterFBomb: In contrast to their music's leaning toward PrecisionFStrike, ''everyone'' curses like crazy in interviews or on social media. Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen in particular are walking ClusterFBombs online.

* VocalDissonance: Rob Swire. For someone who [[PerpetualFrowner always looks grave]] and intimidating, he has quite the soft voice, as especially seen in "Hold Your Colour", "Under the Waves", "Witchcraft", and {{Deadmau5}}'s "Ghosts N Stuff".
** This also applies regarding his voice as opposed to his personality. He has a very strong voice and stage presence...but he's [[ShrinkingViolet really shy and quiet]] when he's not performing.

** Their remix of "Voodoo People" is considered to be [[BeyondTheImpossible even better]] than the original.

** Their remix of "Voodoo People" is considered to be [[BeyondTheImpossible even better]] than the original.