what is up with blastbeats?

[skeptik]

 

[AsModEe]

root cause analysis: manowar spawned both bathory and power metal?

unpossible!

 

[lurch70]

~Neurotica?



first DM lady drummer I have seen, from Estonia ... any others out there?

 

[Ars Magna]

I have no problem with blasting as long as it fits the song. If they are blasting just to blast, then it's silly.

I assume none of you guys are fans of Panzer Division Marduk then?

Edit: Mike Smith rules, btw.

 

[lurch70]

I've been looking for a thread to post this video in for a few days now, good call on the bump lurch.
What's wrong with blastbeats? Mike Smith has the definitive answer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PATEO4Uomk&feature=related

I love Mike Smith's style ... he's fast, very fast, but really pounds and has uber groove ... and now this video showed me why

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

FUCK YES, he articulated exactly how I feel about most uber fast blasters, like that chick up there. Yeah its fast, but the snare sounds weak as shit.

Fuck, need to listen to some suffocation now.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

mike smith is a good 75% of why suffocation are one of the best death metal acts around

 

[lurch70]

even Jerry has to agree with that

 

[lurch70]

need more great drumming videos like that

 

[Necromunchkin]

Blastbeats are just another tool that, when used well, can add quite a bit to a song. But, much like the downpicked, palm-muted thrash riff which, without variation and well-crafted song writing can be one of the most boring sounding things of all time, it turns into just a generic way of being "metal."

Speaking of Suffocation, I have always thought one of the greatest convergences of riff and drums in death metal occurs at the 2:20 mark in "Infecting the Crypts."

 

[lurch70]

blastbeats? double bass?