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Pendulum
Pendulum came out of Perth, Western Australia, at a moment when drum and bass was still mostly a club thing, and pushed it somewhere bigger and louder. Their debut, Hold Your Colour, became one of the biggest-selling drum and bass albums ever made, and from there they folded in live guitars and vocals until the line between electronic act and rock band barely held. Songs like "Propane Nightmares" and "Watercolour" took them well past the dance scene they started in, and after a long stretch away they returned in 2025 with Inertia, their first album in fifteen years.
Start here
Hold Your Colour (2005). Their debut is the sound that made their name: breakneck drum and bass with real melodies underneath. "Slam," "Fasten Your Seatbelt," and "Tarantula" are all on it, and it still hits the way it did in 2005.
Biography
Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass band founded in 2002. Pendulum originally formed in the city of Perth, Western Australia, by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen and Paul "El Hornet" Harding. The band was later expanded to include members Ben Mount, Peredur ap Gwynedd and KJ Sawka. The group is notable for its distinctive sound, mixing electronic music with hard rock and covering a wide range of genres.
Their debut studio album, Hold Your Colour, was released in 2005 to positive critical reception. While Hold Your Colour was mostly of the drum and bass genre, the succeeding albums In Silico and Immersion saw experimentation of other genres such as industrial rock and electronic rock.
In 2012, the band went on hiatus as Swire and McGrillen concentrated on their side-project Knife Party. In 2015, the band reformed and released the remix album The Reworks in 2018. The band have since released the EPs Elemental (2021) and Anima (2023), and in 2025 released a fourth album titled Inertia.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
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