what is up with blastbeats?

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