PENDULUM Collaborate With IN FLAMES, Say No To METALLICA
January 6, 2011, 13 years ago
Amy Sciarretto of Noisecreep reports that for their new album Immersion, Australia's PENDULUM collaborated with IN FLAMES vocalist Anders Friden and guitarist Bjorn Gellotte.
"Our favorite band growing up was In Flames," Pendulum bassist Gareth McGrillen told Noisecreep. "That was incredible to work with them, since they have been an influence for so long. They are our favorite metal band, so we thought, 'Let's do a track with them.' When we supported IRON MAIDEN on tour in Europe, Anders came out and did the song ('Self Vs. Self') with us onstage and there were 80,000 metal fans in the UK appreciating it."McGrillen also said he is up for remixing an In Flames song in the future as well. As for Pendulum's remixing career, they actually turned down METALLICA. They probably aren't used to hearing "no," but Pendulum nixed a remix with good reason. "We remix what we shouldn't, which would piss people off. We did LED ZEPPELIN, but we only incorporated it into our DJ set. We also did 'Master Of Puppets' for Metallica," McGrillen recalled. "The band was specific about wanting us to mix a different song, but we wanted to do 'Master Of Puppets'. So we basically didn't do it since we didn't want to do the song they wanted us to do." So Pendulum actually turned Metallica down!
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