Propane Nightmares
| "Propane Nightmares" | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||||||||||||
| Single by Pendulum | ||||||||||||||
| from the album In Silico | ||||||||||||||
| Released | 12 April 2008 | |||||||||||||
| Format | 12", CD, download | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2007–2008 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Drum and bass, electronic rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 5:13 (album version) 4:19 (radio edit) |
|||||||||||||
| Label | Warner Music UK | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Rob Swire, Bernd Burhoff, Oliver Froning, Jens Oettrich | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Rob Swire | |||||||||||||
| Pendulum singles chronology | ||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
"Propane Nightmares" is the second single from Australian drum and bass band Pendulum's second album In Silico. It incorporates elements of the song "Million Miles from Home" by German Happy Hardcore band Dune. It has received significant airplay on BBC Radio 1, being played frequently by DJ Zane Lowe.
The song was released exclusively for download on 12 April 2008 in Australia and New Zealand, where Pendulum were on tour at the time. It was later released globally for download on 21 April, and on physical formats on 28 April. The song reached number sixteen in the UK Singles Chart on 27 April based on downloads alone, and on 4 May the song peaked at number nine. It was also the official theme song of WWE Cyber Sunday 2008 as well as being used as background music for the official video highlights of the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix and the ending credits of The Martian. It is also used as the runout song for Rotherham United football team.
"Propane Nightmares" has received mixed reviews from music critics, mostly as a result of the change in style compared to older tracks produced by Pendulum. Some reviewers praised the new direction that the band had taken, for example Gerard McGarry wrote, in an article for Unreality Music, that Pendulum "have created an epic song that - for our money - fuses their penchant for dance and rock music beautifully". Jo-Ann Greene of Allmusic described the song as "another sizzling single" in her review of In Silico, while Fiona McGlynn wrote that "...Propane Nightmares is a fresh take on a merge of genres that actually works", in her single review for the Manchester Evening News. It was also named 38th in Q Magazine's Q50 of April 2008.
...
Wikipedia