Pendulum CD Cover

We decided to take a look at Pendulum's website, to help us theme the CD and Magazine covers. We wanted to see the original CD cover, and see what colours/images/writing they had used to help us decide what we should do.

As you can see, the style of the website is quite industrial, with red stormy clouds as the background behind the writing. Their website reflects their style of music; loud, imaginative and also a little sinister and dark-most of the page is in black, apart from the background which is a dark red/purply sky (reflecting storms/trouble brewing).










This is the album cover to 'Immersion' by Pendulum. The image depicts two people swimming in water, but the image has a magical feel to it-the colours and the reefs and also the light coming from the top of the water gives the image an element of the supernatural. The font is a standard block capitals font, in a silvery-grey colour. 'Pendulum' is in bold, and is bigger than the album name 'Immersion', highlighting the band.


This is the actual artwork for the single 'Granite' by Pendulum (the song that we have done). This artwork is very simple: a black background with a red 'crop circle' type image taking up the whole of the space. This image gives nothing away about the song, or the video. Again, 'Pendulum' is written in bold block capitals, with 'Granite' underneath it. This time, 'Granite' is not necessarily smaller but it is not in bold. Both words are placed centrally in the image, showing clearly the band and the song.

This is the album cover to 'Hold Your Colour'. This artwork is very detailed, with lots of colours used but mainly green showing through. There is also an eye in the midst of the swirls of colour; there is no clue as to why the eye is there in the name of the album. The writing on this cover is different to the other two I have looked at; this time pendulum is written in lower case letters, in white with a black background. 'Hold your colour' is also written in lower case, smaller letters in black with a white background.

Looking through these album covers, we have decided that we will use a similar idea with the name of the band and the song; they will be written in capitals and most likely placed central in the image, to clearly show the consumer what they will be buying. However, even though these CD covers mostly do not relate to the video, we still want to link ours to our video. An idea we had was that we could put the writing on the knife that will be held in the girls teeth.