He is known for having a very fast double kick technique and has been credited as one of the pioneers of double-bass, as well as with popularizing the blast beat technique with thrash metal. And S.O.D. What are you doing?' Benante joined Anthrax in 1983, prior to the recording of the band's debut album Fistful of Metal, and has been the band's drummer ever since. I would play it either with the ride or I would play it with the hat, reversing it. Like, when we would play it live, the more I played it, the more I started to develop a different way of playing it. And then when I heard the Dimmu Borgir record When asked about "Milk" and if he felt like he was doing something new, Benante stated, "I remember when that song came out, 'Milk,' with the blast beat in it, and many people were saying, 'What are you doing here? Benante also helped usher in the prominence of blast beats—the all-out aural assault that has become a metal staple in the years since—with his work on the 1985 album Speak English or Die by Stormtroopers of Death, a side project featuring other members of Anthrax.
So it was being developed even more.
And then I discovered that some of the black metal bands, later on, were doing it [slightly differently]. Miikka Skaffari, Getty Images Blast beats are plentiful in today's metal, but where did the style begin? ""Milk" was part of Stormtroopers of Death's 1985 debut album, Because I would always play it with a single kick drum, and I would either reverse it, which I think Paul [Mazurkiewicz] from Cannibal Corpse played more of that style of blast beat. It fit in that song 'Milk.' In an interview with Drumtalk (seen below), He went on to add, "Of course, people perfected it and play it way better, but that was the first time that a blast beat was on record. didn't play many shows, of course, but when we did play, we played the whole record. And it was never at the same speed that the record was recorded — it was live and it was just fast, so it was always moving forward. A type of fast drum beat characteristic of extreme heavy metal styles such as black metal, death metal and grindcore, a blast beat is basically a single stroke roll broken up between the snare drum and the bass drum, with the hi-hat/ride hand playing unison strokes with the bass drum.Asked if it felt like he was doing something new when he first came up with the drum beat for Dirty rotten Ep for sure has fast blast like beats but not sure if I’d classify it as a “ blast beat”. "The drummer continued, "When S.O.D.
They were one of the first to do short songs with all of them blastingAlso NYC Mayem, had those blasts, thought they were explosiveYep, I know it well but this wasn’t a kinda blast I was referring to. And I'm tired of people not crediting that that was the first time. [Laughs] When we would play it, I would always see people watching me play it.
If you can prove me wrong, prove me wrong, but I believe that that was the first time. Anthrax’s Charlie Benante Says He Deserves Credit For Being The First Drummer To Play A Blast Beat On A Record Jun 20th, 2020 - 2:07pm Posted by wookubus 50 If you’re an avid listener of metal and the more extreme forms of it, you’re likely aware of the “blast beat”. ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante says that he is "tired" of not being recognized as a pioneer of the "blast beat." In a recently posted interview with Drumtalk (the interview was actually conducted last year, but just being posted on Youtube), Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante made … record that we did in 1985. I would have to say Agnostic front did it first or many of the hardcore bands back then. Blast beats are plentiful in today's metal, but where did the style begin? And, like I said, other people have mastered it and done it way better, and I never took it any further — that was it. In an interview with Drumtalk (seen below), Charlie Benante … In a new-old interview with Drumtalk (the interview was conducted last year in Germany, but is just being released on YouTube now for some reason), Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante takes credit for creating the blast beat, and says he’s “tired” of not getting his due: And there was a part of me that was, like, 'I can't really tell you what I'm doing.' would play more and more shows, I would always develop it and not just do a single kick — I would throw in a double. In a newly uploaded interview with Drumtalk (see below), Benante had the following to say: "There's this style of beat called 'blast beat,' and I will say that the first time ever that type of beat was recorded and played on a record was on this S.O.D.