https://vo.rs/tags/grindcore/Recent content in Grindcore on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/the-blast-beat/Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/the-blast-beat/<p>There is a sound at the far end of loud music that stops feeling like drumming and starts feeling like weather. Kick, snare and cymbal fire together at a speed the human ear cannot separate into individual hits, and the whole thing becomes a wall of grey static with a pulse buried in it. That is the blast beat, and once you know how it is built you cannot un-hear it — in the pit it is the difference between a fast song and a genuinely overwhelming one.</p>