Pendulum are back! Following a run of blistering arena and festival dates through 2024, the band return with Inertia, their first album in fifteen years. The 16 track LP comes August 22nd via Mushroom Music. The band have also shared the album’s first cut with ‘Save The Cat’. Listen HERE & watch the video HERE.
Raw, unrelenting and unapologetically heavy, ‘Save The Cat’ is the band at the top of their game. A pure screamo anthem, the track came in the wake of two breakups – one that unraveled slowly over time, and another that hit without warning. “It was written during a period of self-questioning and frustration,” Rob Swire said of the single. “Love felt like something I didn’t fully trust myself with anymore.”.
Produced by Rob Swire and Owen Charles and recorded at Pendulum’s London Studio, Inertia is a rampaging, 16-track emotional maelstrom and without doubt the band’s most personal work to date. Featuring collaborations with Bullet For My Valentine, Wargasm, AWOLNATION, Scarlxrd, Joey Valence & Brae and Hybrid Minds across the album’s tracklist, Inertia began to take shape in 2020 as Rob searched for what it is to be Pendulum in its current era. Stemming from 2021’s Elemental and 2023’s Anima EPs, which were the blueprint for the band’s future, the band found their new direction.
“I was basically testing how far we could push Pendulum,” Rob admits. “Seeing what we could get away with. I always looked at The Prodigy as the benchmark. They started out as pure rave – breakbeat, hardcore – but they evolved. They became their own sound. You don’t even really associate them with breakbeat anymore. They just are The Prodigy.”
“It’s the sound of Pendulum finding themselves again, and me figuring myself out to a certain extent,” Rob said of the record. “Breakups do that – they strip things down and show you who you are. I’m just trying not to become the guy who needs to go through one just to make a record.”
Known for their raucous and captivating live show, the band also have a run of outdoor UK shows through summer 2025, including a massive date at Milton Keynes Bowl on August 9th. More info HERE.
Pendulum Play The Following UK Shows in 2025:
May
Thu 29th Margate, Dreamland
June
Fri 13th Plymouth, Hoe Park
Sat 14th Halifax, The Piece Hall
Tue 20th Scarborough Open Air Theatre
August
Sat 9th Milton Keynes, The National Bowl
Inertia Tracklisting:
1. Driver
2. Come Alive
3. Save The Cat
4. Archangel
5. Nothing For Free
6. Cannibal (ft. Wargasm)
7. Constellations
8. Halo (ft. Bullet For My Valentine)
9. Louder Than Words (ft. Hybrid Minds)
10. Napalm (ft. Joey Valence & Brae)
11. The endless Gaze
12. Guiding Lights (ft. AWOLNATION)
13. Colourfast
14. Silent Spinner
15. Mercy Killing (ft. Scarlxrd)
16. Cartagena
About Pendulum: Undoubtedly one of the biggest electronic bands of all time, Pendulum have 3 platinum albums to their name, including renowned debut Hold Your Colour and a UK #1 and #2 for Immersion and In Silico. The drum and bass/rock band from Perth, Australia have sold over a million albums in the UK alone, as well as selling out global arena tours and playing to thousands across main stage performances from Glastonbury and Download to Reading and Leeds on top of a headline slot at Ultra Miami in spring 2025.
The band returned with their EP Elemental in 2021 along with the comeback of the live band. In 2023 they followed up with their EP Anima, featuring Matt Tuck from Bullet For My Valentine and acclaimed trap metal artist Scarlxrd. The band completed their biggest UK headline tour to date in 2024, including a stop at London’s O2 Arena.
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