Thread 127478171

The "new" album is finally here bros what do we think

Nice to finally get Archangel and Guiding Lights studio versions

But pretty crazy how only Cartagena was unheard or unreleased before the album

>>127478171 (OP)
all I want to say is that Cartagena is just fucking amazing and I'm glad it never leaked or was heard prior to release. Can't wait to see them live this November.

>>127478171 (OP)
While it may be that the album was spoiled by almost all of the songs being released via EPs and singles, I was definitely still excited for it. Cartagena having that same "ending" theme like The Tempest and Encoder really feels like a good "send off" for Pendulum. The outro of the song being that of the locked groove on a record made it a real bittersweet feeling. Maybe this will be the last full album after, especially after 15 years since Immersion. My top 3 are probably Save The Cat, Louder Than Words, and Cartagena so far

I'm happy it's real but I envy anyone going into this without having already bumped the fuck out of the Elemental and Anima EPs for the last 4 and 2 years respectively; just having to get through those old tracks here really, REALLY fucks with the relistenability for me. I had a bad feeling about nearly all the drops blending together and the metalcore elements getting annoying fast but the track order + Archangel and Cartagena are so fucking good that I'm eventually gonna forgive it. Rob's vocals are the best they've ever been; I don't know how he keeps getting away with such gorgeous ending tracks, the crackling and looping note that send off the album have my throat tying into knots the same way Encoder once did. Overall, I think it's slightly above In Silico, with its lows being better than In Silico's lows but its highs not quite there with In Silico's highs.

These guys have been with me for 15 years and Hold Your Colour is my favorite album of all time. I hope it's not the last album for another decade and a half (or forever) but I'll try to cherish it as if it were. Top 5 tracks: Save The Cat, Cartagena, Colourfast, Archangel, Silent Spinner. Big ups, boys.

Pendulum sucked ass since they joined BBK. If you are listening to this in 2025 your musical journey has gone in a straight line, thus you have failed completely.

>>127478914
lmao I love how Pendulum still make dnb purists seethe

>>127478934
It doesn't make us seethe. It makes us pity you. I'm not expecting you to go listen to the entirety of the output of Metalheadz or something. Just saying you could find something that isn't shit.

>>127478914
>they sucked before they released their first album
ok hipster

>>127478948
>It doesn't make us seethe
It clearly does because I have seen you people constantly bitch about every dnb act that gets remotely popular, I really don't think there is a genre with more insufferable fans which hate the most popular artists in their genre.

Pendulum are just like the Prodigy, they got popular with crossing over to rock, which makes people like you mad

>>127478963
The opposite actually. They went from exciting:
https://youtu.be/e8NwBKfKYcE
To holy mother fucking cringe shut this garbage off:
https://youtu.be/ZCKpzP5SGYw
Then everyone was sucking off Noisia or Evol Intent or whatever instead

>>127478987
>bitch about every dnb act that gets remotely popular
Not the case. When's the last time you saw a dnbfag start loudly proclaiming that Goldie's Timeless is a piece of shit actually or that Roni Size's New Forms is trash? It's not the popularity that's the problem as much as it is chasing a more commercial friendly sound. It's easy to lose your edge when doing so, look at Sub Focus, or Chase and Status. Or it could be shit from the start like Netsky, versus High Contrast who had commercial appeal but actually made good music.

>>127478989
>two tracks that sound almost the same
>one is an exciting masterpiece while the other is stupid garbage
truly the most autistic fanbase

>>127479009
>Goldie's Timeless
That's boomer dnb from the 90s before the genre went truly mainstream
Funny how no one ever talks about the failed follow up though

Also he got god boy points because he shit on Pendulum and called one of their songs garbage

>>127479009
>chasing a more commercial friendly sound
See this is what I mean, anything that's melodic and not completely repetitive is commercial garbage

>Sub Focus, or Chase and Status
I kinda liked their first albums but stopped caring for them after that

Also I guess you hate that sewerslvt tranny and the clones they inspired

>>127479030
It was arguably one of dnb's most mainstream moments. The genre never topped New Forms level of popularity or critical acceptance, and with good fucking reason. When things like Pendulum are what you present as the pinnacle of the genre you only attract people who were listening to shit like Linkin Park before they found it. Those people never care to dig any deeper as evidenced by the replies to this thread. Shit like this arguably made the genre anti-commercial as a response. While stuff like the Autonomic movement and minimal dnb might have been praised at the time when Pendulum shat out Immersion there's not much marketable about it.

>>127479080
>The genre never topped New Forms level of popularity or critical acceptance
Amon Tobin and Squarepusher did

>>127479104
That's not really dnb though. I mean you wouldn't call Venetian Snares dnb either would you? Or actual breakcore, as in not the stuff with anime pictures that's just ambient jungle. This brings up another thing. A lot of producers break from the genre because they feel constrained by it. If you are making dnb you are making something specific for a specific audience. Usually singles or EPs not albums, which limits the mainstream marketability. That also introduces the situation where dnb producers do end up making an album and they pad it out with some tunes they made in another genre, like a sudden detour into house. Nobody likes those. Everyone just wants to hear dnb. All of these things are dnb:
https://youtu.be/A-asL8ODCss
https://youtu.be/8IJCQ6imW_A
https://youtu.be/DXR0eFWQ6Hc
https://youtu.be/VMPKBiZS42s
https://youtu.be/TcxP0KFYkbQ
https://youtu.be/_rN-UIxIMW8
https://youtu.be/49RSHC-vwW0

dnb purists don't even stop to consider that your gateway into classic dnb was pendulum they just assume you're in it for their more commercial sound, call you a low iq linkin park fan and leave; that, or pendulum has never been real dnb anyway so no matter how far back into genre you go there is no undoing that is the stain that you found out about their special boys club via pendulum. sorry i'm not over the age of 40 or that the genre was literally inaccessible outside of racing games for the xbox at one point.

>>127479235
Their first ever release came out on 31. I mean you can't get more real than that. It was state of the art from the start then the paths diverged. They were releasing on Warner Brothers, which you can still do while being in touch with your scene and your peers. But that's not what happened there. This is what happened:
https://youtu.be/e82VE8UtW8A
This is also what happened:
https://youtu.be/luJJBeCFeM0

>>127479203
It's drill n bass or atmospheric dnb which is kind of similar thing

Yes dnb is quite a limited genre which is why it usually doesn't work in long form

>>127479203
>like a sudden detour into house. Nobody likes those
The Island is one of the most popular Pendulum songs though

>>127479235
If you didn't get into the genre through obscure singles on Metalheadz then you were not a true fan of dnb

>>127479291
The journey doesn't matter, it's the destination. If the destination is shit music you chose wrong.

>>127479265
Knife Party have nothing to do with dnb and Rob just wanted to do something else, from what I have seen and heard he is clearly sick of making dnb and he didn't even want to make a new Pendulum album which is why he released a few EPs first, this whole reunion is basically a nostalgia cash grab.

>>127478914
>I'm still holding on to DoA drama 20 years later

Which other artists use a guitar shaped controller like this?

>>127479335
Has nothing to do with the DOA drama. If that's the angle you were going to go for I'd say that when Pendulum posted their little manifesto against Fresh after the Jungle Sound Gold fiasco there they were completely in the right. Even if I didn't like the music they were putting out at the time. I was more into this:
https://youtu.be/g1TPAmSk734

>>127479325
It's a prison he built for himself. I can't blame him for taking the money. But I can blame him for not foreseeing the point where the commercial nature of things causes him to lose his passion to create them. I heard Alex Reece paints houses these days. He's probably happier than Rob.

>>127479009
Lmao it's telling your example of good popular dnb are albums from nearly 30 years ago

>>127479917
It's so telling you think of dnb as an albums genre. The mark of a genre tourist. Not to mention your failure to miss the point. I was talking about the intersection of mainstream commercial appeal with quality of music, purposely choosing examples in the distant past because it hasn't happened since.

>>127479917
It's so telling you think of dnb as an albums genre. The mark of a genre tourist. Not to mention your failure to get the point. I was talking about the intersection of mainstream commercial appeal with quality of music, purposely choosing examples in the distant past because it hasn't happened since.

>>127479940
Not my fault dnb is so repetitive that artists can't make a cohesive 40 minute album

Pendulum after first album should'nt be considered a dnb but a dance rock artist

>>127480068
The repetition isn't the problem. There aren't that many dnb producers that can make enough interesting tracks to pad out a whole album. Like let's take one of the most iconic dnb tracks there is:
https://youtu.be/8UAUDbWrVhA
Holy fucking shit this is incredible. Where's the Konflict album? But then you have an artist like Calibre who has made so many fucking albums I haven't even heard all of them. But I'd love to listen to them. He has never let me down once. I even like his non-dnb albums.

>>127478171 (OP)
this is gay as fuck

OHHHHH MY GOD
I FEEL LIKE THE SUN IS DYING
THE LIGHT IS GONE
WE'RE MOVING ON
DON'T STOP TILL YOU [Incomprehensible Rob Swire]

https://youtu.be/KIGXGkzjAoc
>I was at a Pendulum set this week; the highest point of the entire night for me were the 2 seconds of this track that they played.
lol teasing The Nine was played out in 2005. No surprise Pendulum did it in 2024.