Group
Pendulum
Australian drum & bass
- From
- Perth, Australia
- Since
- 2002–present
- Rating
- ★ 4.45
- Releases
- 93
- drum and bass
- electronic
- electronic rock
- dancefloor drum and bass
- rock
- dubstep
- edm
- electro house
About
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.
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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.
Members
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Paul Harding turntable
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Rob Swire guitar synthesizer, lead vocals, synthesizer
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Peredur ap Gwynedd electric guitar
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KJ Sawka drums (drum set), electronic drum set
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Ben Verse lead vocals
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Paul Kodish drums (drum set), electronic drum set
Discography
Singles
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FADE
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Sound of You
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Guiding Lights
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Cannibal
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Save the Cat
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Napalm
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Halo
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Colourfast Apple Music
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Mercy Killing
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The Program (Rampage 2022 set rip)
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Come Alive
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Nothing for Free
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Driver
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The Reworks (Minimix)
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Ransom
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Master of Puppets (Pendulum remix) (TJ's edit)
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Crush
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The Island Apple Music
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Watercolour
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Salt in the Wounds
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Witchcraft Apple Music
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Showdown
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In Silico Showcase
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The Other Side
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Violet Hill
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Propane Nightmares
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The Tempest
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Granite
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Blood Sugar / Axle Grinder
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Minds Eye / Trail of Sevens
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Painkiller
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Hardware Limited 03
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Vault VIP Extended
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Tarantula / Fasten Your Seatbelt
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Fasten Your Seatbelts / Out Here
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Slam
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Sounds of Life
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No One Knows
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Back 2 You / Still Grey
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Another Planet / Voyager
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Spiral / Ulterior Motive
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Blood Sugar (2005 Version)
Live
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Anti‐Hero (Triple J Like a Version)
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2005-01-13: Flex, Vienna, Austria
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Live at Brixton Academy
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BBC Radio 1: Christmas Gifts
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2008-06-14: Download Festival 2008: Donington Park, UK
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iTunes Festival: London 2008
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2008-06-29: National Bowl, Milton Keynes, UK
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2007-12-31: BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix: NYE, UK
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2005-09-18: BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
Other
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FADE (TOO BIASED Remix)
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The Island Part 1 - Dawn (Violet Wanda remix)
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Halo (Matt Tuck rework)
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Halo (Urbandawn remix)
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Elemental (The Remixes) Apple Music
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Louder Than Words (Rob Swire chill mix)
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The Reworks
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Hold Your Colour (Noisia remix) Apple Music
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The Island, Part I: Dawn (Skrillex remix)
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Granite (Sonohara remix)
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Granite (Rude Lard remix)
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Blood Sugar (Knife Party remix)
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Watercolour (Hexadigital's EDM Bootleg)
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Set Me on Fire (Sequend remix)
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Different (Electro mix for Glastonbury)
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Fasten Your Seatbelt (PrototypeRaptor remix)
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The Island (B-Twinz Hardsyle remix) Apple Music
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ABC News Theme (remixed by Pendulum)
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The Island (Tom Fall ‘Pjanoo’ remix) Apple Music
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2010-07-17: BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
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In Silico (El Hornet Mini-mix)
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Propane Nightmares (Celldweller Remix)
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Masochist (Noisia remix)
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Hold Your Colour (Bipolar vocal mix) Apple Music
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Vault VIP / Square Off (Roni Size remix) (Dubplate version)
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Painkiller Remixes
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2005-08-09: BBC Radio 1 Breezeblock Mix
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Fire VIP / Painkiller
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The Program (MostWanted2011 Remake)
Links
Listen
Official
Concerts
Buy
Also known as
Planet Pendulum
Tags
- australian
- australia
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- beff21d3-88c7-4ee0-8b7a-40b6db22c6d7
- ISNI
- 0000000115406255
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 11 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.