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Some sad news just popped up, sounds like rob swire and gareth are calling it quits with pendulum.

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3526471.htm

Its a very good job Knife Party are so fething awesome.

Still, end of an era for me at least.

That's a shame :(

I didn't realise that Rob and Gareth were Knife Party though, I'll have to check them out some time.
I remember seeing them in Nottingham in November 2010, and they were the loudest thing I'd ever heard, and completely amazing at the same time.

That's a real shame. Hold Your Colour is an amazing album, one of my favorites.

Yea I found them about a year ago, and loved them since. Oh well, better to move on instead of running it into the ground

Im listening to slam to console myself

@feeder: Yep, 10/5 stars for that album.

@goliath: Yeah i saw knife party in feb, ridiculous wall of noise! Awesome though. Their new Rage Valley EP is the sex...

Yea never heard of them either till now, but Ive got em cranked and enjoying what Im hearing

Slowly but surely dubstep/moombahcore/electro house is begin to grow.....





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I do have to say though,

Knife Party's track Centipede taking a light hearted dig at Pendulum's Tarantula is sheer genius!

I don't get it, why make a new band when the majority of the members are the same

This is great news, pendulum were gash.

Corpsesarefun wrote:I don't get it, why make a new band when the majority of the members are the same

Not being at all familiar with either band (never even heard of them), perhaps it's because the styles of music are substantially different. The members of one of my favorite death metal bands are "secretly" (it's all schtick) members of a different band that's.... still death metal but incorporates a lot more old-school thrash styles in it. Or at least at one point they were the same four guys in two different bands, not so sure now, due to several line up changes. I'd assume this is the case with Knife Party and Pendulum (not the Death Metal -> Old-School Thrash/Death Metal bit, the one band plays different music than the other bit).

Gareth and Rob both started Pendulum, but clearly got fed up with the style of music the rest of the band felt they should be making. Making music became a chore, and that is never how music should be.

They messed around with Knife Party, and after seeing how successful it was, obviously decided to concentrate fully on KP seeing as they are having fun and actually enjoying music creation.

Also the music is fundamentally different, nowhere in Knife Party is there a band element, its all studio produced, no singing by rob so far, and just dj'ed out like any other set.

Bummer! I liked those guys!...now I know what I'm going to listen to when I get off work

Vitruvian XVII wrote:

Huh, didn't realise they were all so young.

Hes not that young, born '82, so 30

He was around 18/19 when he started pendulum though.

I know, I thought as they've been at it so long they would be in their 40's now.

Damn. Will have to check out Knife Party though (hadnt realised there was an 'old school' Pendulum knockin around...)




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Vitruvian XVII wrote:

Hehe, one of my mates got with him.....she still brags...

To be fair, that is one achievement she can brag about forever. Fair play!

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Hes not that young, born '82, so 30

He was around 18/19 when he started pendulum though.

Not that young? You think 30 is getting old?

KingCracker wrote:

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Hes not that young, born '82, so 30

He was around 18/19 when he started pendulum though.

Not that young? You think 30 is getting old?

Anyone 26+ is old...

Nah but the way corpses worded it made it sound like he thought they were only just 20. Anyway, 30 is approaching middle aged. It certainly aint young

40 is middle aged, 30 is the last hoorah! You youngins have no respect!!! *shakes fist*

Eh nowadays i count 45-50 as middle aged

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Eh nowadays i count 45-50 as middle aged

Darn kids with your electronical music... back in my day synthesizers were analog, and had a silly name! Moog! And stay off my lawn!

Actually i know of some artists that still use proper Moogs when making electronic music

HEY! Didnt anyone tell you not to back talk your elders?!

People tell me to throw stuff at my elders...