Peredur ap Gwynedd

Harding had been the drummer in a punk band since the mid-1990s.

Pendulum is an Australian electronic rock band founded in 2002.

Pendulum originally formed in the city of Perth, Western Australia, by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen and Paul "El Hornet" Harding.

The band was later expanded to include members Ben Mount, Peredur ap Gwynedd and KJ Sawka.

The group is notable for its distinctive sound, mixing electronic music with hard rock and covering a wide range of genres.

Both their bands had played together at the same shows, but they did not meet until a drum & bass night in 2002.

They all had a passion for electronic music and formed Pendulum, incorporating their previous influences of rock and metal music from their previous projects.

Pendulum began their career in Perth, Western Australia as a trio of DJs.

Harding had been active in the Perth drum & bass scene for some time, DJing under the name "El Hornet".

Swire and McGrillen had played friends parties, mainly DJing from their computers.

Initially Swire and McGrillen wanted to start a record label and release songs on it.

One evening they were meant to play a DJ set on The Perth Producers night at The Drumclub, but Swire's hard drive failed.

Harding offered to play their music instead which was received well.

They sat down with each other and decided to produce music together under the name Pendulum.

The first track the trio produced was 'Vault', which would be released in 2003 on 31 Records to great acclaim within the UK drum & bass scene.

At that moment they were residing in Perth, but they felt isolated from the drum & bass community.

Once fellow drum & bass artist DJ Fresh offered them free accommodation in his London flat for eight months, they decided to move to England.

The band also recorded and released 'Spiral / Ulterior Motive' the same year, and in 2004 made their first compilation appearance on 'Jungle Sound: The Bassline Strikes Back!', with several songs featured and Harding in charge of mixing the album's second disc.

Their debut studio album, Hold Your Colour, was released in 2005 to positive critical reception.

While Hold Your Colour was mostly of the drum & bass genre, the succeeding albums In Silico and Immersion saw experimentation of other genres such as industrial rock and electronic rock.

The band was offered an album deal by Breakbeat Kaos, Fresh's label, which resulted in their debut album Hold Your Colour in 2005.

The album charted in both the United Kingdom and in Australia and was certified as a golden album in Australia.

Following the success of their 2005 debut album, their label Breakbeat Kaos re-issued the compilation under the name Jungle Sound Gold, the front now saying "mixed by Pendulum".

The band disapproved of this as they had neither given permission nor been informed about the release, and Pendulum later ended up leaving the label.

In 2006, the trio became a sextet after introducing Ben Mount as their MC, Peredur ap Gwynedd as their guitarist, and Paul Kodish as their drummer.

At this time McGrillen began playing bass guitar at live shows and on some studio recordings.

Pendulum's second album, In Silico, was released on 12 May 2008.

This release contained different sounds compared to their debut album, as it contained more rock elements whilst maintaining their electronic elements.

The response to this change was relatively positive from critics, but was called "a little dated" by The Guardian.

The album was relatively successful as it charted at 2 on the UK Albums Chart and at 9 in the Australian Albums Chart.

The album reached No. 16 on Billboard's Top Electronic Albums chart in the United States.

In November 2008, three songs from the album In Silico were used in the soundtrack of Need for Speed: Undercover.

The song "Tarantula" was featured in the video game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift.

"Tarantula" also later inspired the release of the track "Centipede" from their spin-off band, Knife Party.

At the end of the year the band filmed a live DVD on 4 and 5 December 2008, at the Brixton Academy.

In August 2013, Swire announced that a new album may be released in 2014, although Swire and McGrillen later confessed on their Reddit AMA that they had become disillusioned with Pendulum and have no interest at present in producing any new material.

Despite this, on 20 March 2016, Pendulum reunited to perform at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida, marking their official return as a live act.

Soon after this, the band released the remix album The Reworks in 2018.

The band have since released the EPs Elemental (2021) and Anima (2023).

Before Pendulum, Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen were in multiple rock and metal music bands before Swire influenced McGrillen into producing electronic music on their computers.