Fastest band ever?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

my guess may be agoraphobic nose bleed
live, i would say Assuck or Combat Wounded Veteran
does this board know anything about fast music?

― ddd, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know anything about fast music. I have another question but I will wait and not hijack the thread.

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rotterdam Terror Corps? DJ Producer?

Manu le Malin?

Just guessing, really.

I have a really bad gabber record called "E de cologne" by I-can't- remember-who which clocks up 300bpm at one point, according to my mixer...

― Jacob, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm... the Venetian Snares vs. Speedranch album is pretty damn fast.

― dog latin, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought that Moby set the record when he released "Thousand". Yeah, a silly gimmick record, but still...

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Napalm Death at one point had the record for highest BPM by a human drummer. No idea what song, but their first albums were pretty great altogether.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how about the Locust? they are fast to the point of annoying.

― Brock K., Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how about the Locust? they are fast to the point of annoyance.

― Brock K., Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

charles bronson maybe?

― dave k, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my vote: Drop Dead. They had a 23 song 7".

― daniel, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Agoraphobic Nosebleed uses a drum machine. This is an impossible question to answer, how many bpms is noise?

― Kris, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How about the Locust? They are annoyingly fast.

Naked City hit some high BPMs on a few tracks. And I think Melt Banana were pretty speedy, too. But, then, I think Big Flame are pretty fast.

― Daver, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Husker Du: Land Speed Record.

The first, the original.

― Gage-o, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Boom and the Legion Of Doom, a bad Misfits clone from the mid- eighties. (And I mean Misfits playing at quadriple speed.) Oddly enough, they had one good song, "Butcher Block," proving for once and for all that everyone has one good song in them.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, Napalm Death, their early stuff would be like a grinding buzzing sound, the singer would go "urrghghggyyghghuueerhhuuuuuurrrrr" for a few seconds and the lyrics for the song would be like 3 paragraphs.

― g, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't Ornette Coleman hire Napalm Death's wonderful drummer for a while? Anyway, not a band, but Johnny Violent rather made mock of Moby's Thousand on Burn Out, on the album Shocker. It reaches 20 million bpm, apparently - it got too fast for me to count some way before the end.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Screaming Trees and that guy from Pop Idol who sings the Dolly Parton tune. Oh, you said FASTEST?

My bad

― vantasma, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a Throbbing Gristle LP that contains a version of their "hit" "United" that is sped up so much that it sounds like a tape playing on the fast-forward speed. Those bastards!

― nickn, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bad Brains circa "Pay to Cum"

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Melt Banana surely?

― john-paul, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now it's time for my other question - what is the highest level of BPM where the human ear can detect 'beats' as opposed to 'noise'?

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well it'd depend on how you define individual beats. I mean within the noise of beats mashed together you can typically still here a vibration or staccatoness to it.

― bnw, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Napalm Death - You suffer b/w Electro Hippies - Mega Armageddon Death Pt3

Both tracks less than a second long

― Sonicred, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not exactly a value for money single that one, then

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i guess up to (at least) 1000 bpm, tom. try the symphonies of steel (i think its part 1) by mescalinum united for a good example how fast things can go. so much better done than thousand by moby.

― 9, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

with a Real Drummer - discordance axis, i would think. atomsmasher (same drummer with plotkin and that yutz speedranch) probably comes close.

― your null fame, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The thing about all these hardcore bands is they are limited by the speed at which their drummers can do the blastbeats. I mean, there's no reason why you couldn't just do a marching band style roll on the snare and play the song to that tempo, which would be twice as fast as anything a hardcore band could do. It would probably sound really stupid but if speed is all you're going for, why not? There is some kind of practical limit to all this.

― Kris, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now it's time for my other question - what is the highest level of BPM where the human ear can detect 'beats' as opposed to 'noise'?

I believe it's in the 15-25Hz area where rhythm begins to be perceived in terms of pitch - so that's 900-1500bpm. Also depends on the duration, attack and decay of the percussive sound too, I imagine - a sustain of much more than 40-50ms and it gets a bit continuous.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Charles Bronson is classic (buy complete discocrappy)..tho def not the fastest band

― kevin enas, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.