The first blast beats

[Minds Chaos]

I was just thinking to myself the other day, I wonder which drummer was the first to use blast beats, and when they were first used. Anyone know?

 

[Cyclonus]

Yeah... on Welcome to Hell there is this fast bit, sort of a roll, but it sounds blasty...

 

[NAD]

S.O.D. is the oldest I can think of.

 

[FailingAcension]

Vemon did slow ones. But older stuff is not my specialty so I'm probably wrong.

 

[blakmetalemp]

Venom would be my guess too.

 

[Minds Chaos]

I don't know much about old school metal either, my guess was Napalm Death.

 

[SlaughterofSoul]

I think it was S.O.D., or Discharge. One of those two.

 

[union9]

I'm thinking the first proper blast was done by Justin Broadrick in Napalm Death on their Scum album.

 

[Board]

Ha! I think this one is THE earliest blastbeat EVER:
It's The Yellow Payges' song called "Little woman" and it's from...(drum roll) 1969!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, it's not really a crazy fast blastbeat like modern black metal shit. It's a psychedelic rock band and some would maybe not call it a blastbeat and it's also very short. Anyway, I have the record and if you would like to hear it I can mp3 it.
I seem to recall another one from around the same time, but I can't recall what it is right now. Maybe I should start digging in my collection.

 

[Vienyard]

I'm going with the prior posts that said SOD. "Slow" blast beats dont count....theyre not "Blasts" in the truest sense of the word.

Otherwise, there'd be a million potentials. But yeah, SOD totally. People played fast up until then, but they (SOD) got ridiculous and kinda helped form grind. They totally preceeded Scum-era Napalm.

 

[Hatebreeder33]

I heard somewhere that it was some punk band...that's weird.

 

[alpha666]

its not that weird that a punk band would pioneer the blast beat concidering grindcore is a direct derivative of punk

 

[union9]

Originally posted by Board
Ha! I think this one is THE earliest blastbeat EVER:
It's The Yellow Payges' song called "Little woman" and it's from...(drum roll) 1969!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, it's not really a crazy fast blastbeat like modern black metal shit. It's a psychedelic rock band and some would maybe not call it a blastbeat and it's also very short. Anyway, I have the record and if you would like to hear it I can mp3 it.
I seem to recall another one from around the same time, but I can't recall what it is right now. Maybe I should start digging in my collection.

I knew you would dig up some obscure source for this Board.

 

[Board]

Always the man for the job!

 

[iamunicron]

think it was some shitty Oi! band who had a drummer who could not get his drum rolls right

 

[Vienyard]

Originally posted by union9
I knew you would dig up some obscure source for this Board.

LOL!! Yeah, totally dude. You can always see Board coming a mile away with something completely off the wall and unexpected!!

Board, thanks for keeping it to the point, without going completely batty with the amount of words! (I'm not really one to talk, cuz my posts tend to be a little on the copious side, but I digress...)

 

[nergal_S]

Most punk drummers are complete shit, i would defintly say S.O.D or Venom. Not Sex Pistols or the CLash or some other non talent punk band.

 

[sydystyk666]

It was Eric Brecht on the Dirty Rotten LP, D.R.I.'s first album in 1982

 

[FailingAcension]

Board always has some good imput.

 

[The Wanderer]

DRI or discharge. SOD was after that.