God, after hearing Propane (check the Pendulum DL thread I put it up) I have officially given up any hope for them. They are fucking awful. I want to start a new topic just for the amount of venom I feel like spewing at Propane. The singer is fucking awful, who is it? Says Rob on their Myspace. He does it? Either way, what a fucking horrible track. Granite sounds brilliant in comparison to this. Can anyone site me an example of a band ever becoming worse from one album to the next? May they rot in emo-rock hell!

Rob Swire sung Granite, Propane Nightmare and Hold Your Colour last night so yeah it's him. I honestly thought it sounded good last night, no worse than half the tunes on AONO...

EDIT: I just listened to the Propane Nightmare download you put in the Pendulum downloads thread. It sounds like a rock song, not at all DnB, but it did sound a lot better live, or maybe it was just the alcohol...

OH NO YOU DIDN'T!

Well that version of Propane was recorded Live at Maide Vale. I'm sure hearing anything live as opposed to hearing a radio rip sounds better, but either way sounds fucking horrible. Seriously recording that was the longest 6 minutes of my life. I just wanted it to be over. And just when I thought it was over... that accoustic came in and it kept going

Oh yes he did and god bless him!

SHUT IT YOU AONO-HATER!!!

I will absolutely not keep Prodigy in mind. Never did Liam produce anything this wank. The day he does, trust me I will have choice fucking words for him. Liam used all his influences to produce amazing tracks, some of the best electronic/dance tunes of all-time. Just saying "oh I was influenced by so and so" doesn't give you a free pass to make shit tunes. They keep saying Led Zeppelin was a big influence, trust me I know almost as much about Zeppelin as I do about Prodigy. There is absolutely nothing in either of these first two tunes which you cite as being influenced by Zeppelin aside from the fact that each uses a guitar in the songs!

The fact that Pendulum started out as a rock band just proves why they failed at that. It's too bad Rob was such a good DnB producer so that he could backdoor his crap rock to the forefront.

As you can tell I hate these new tunes. Some people like it, ok fine. One thing I think is pretty undeniable is that Rob is a terrible singer. Maybe if they had a real lead singer they would be ok. I didn't really think about it when I heard Granite, I just assumed it was some guest vocalist they had. But if he's going to be the singer on the majority of the tracks, then the rest will be just as bad.

Check out this song by a Canadian band I Mother Earth. This is what I was more expecting them to sound like as a rock band. Still keeping their heavy riffs, and smashing it up. Listen to the singer too. That's what a good rock band sounds like, not this failed outback-garage nonsense.

What the fuck is this Propane? It's worse than Granite and that's saying something.

This isn't DnB. This is a fucked up rock tune. Not cool Pendulum, I hope you're reading this.

Sort your music out.

c'mon tim don't hold back....tell us how you really feel

This song is a absolute shcoker i liked granite but what the fuck is this...Emo paradise with the drums Overall vibe i got from it...Trying to impress the emo kids

fucking terrible. get the fuck out of the genre.

Seriously the more I listen to this song the more I fucking hate it. It's fucking everywhere too, every radio station, banners on the internet..... Ahhhhhhhhh. The name of the song says it all, it's just fucking bland and boring.

on the plus side it makes Granite seem less shit.

Ok here's what I don't get about Pendulum. Up until the release of Granite they were a strictly D&B group. Rob (Pendulum's producer) had specifically kept all the new material under wrap. None of the fans had heard it. But before it even came out all these "new" fans started showing up to their gigs. Fans that are not D&B fans. So if they had never played anything but D&B up until a few weeks ago with the release of Granite, where and how did they pick up all these new fans of their rock music???

It's true. Granite seems far less annoying now.