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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.
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.”
