Editing Grindcore (section)

=== Blast beat ===
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The blast beat is a drum beat characteristic of grindcore in all its forms,<ref name="macgregor">Adam MacGregor, Agoraphobic Nosebleed review, ''Dusted'', 11 June 2006. [http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2945] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221133749/http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2945|date=21 December 2008}} Access date: 2 October 2008.</ref> although its usage predates the genre itself, in Adam MacGregor's definition, "the blast-beat generally comprises a repeated, sixteenth-note figure played at a very fast tempo, and divided uniformly among the kick drum, snare and ride, crash, or hi-hat cymbal."<ref name=macgregor/> Blast beats have been described as "maniacal percussive explosions, less about rhythm per se than sheer sonic violence."<ref name=greenway>Strub, Whitney. [https://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/napalm-death-060511.shtml "Behind the Key Club: An Interview with Mark 'Barney' Greenway of Napalm Death"]. ''PopMatters'', 11 May 2006. Retrieved 17 September 2008.</ref> Napalm Death coined the term,<ref name=greenway/> though this style of drumming had previously been practiced by others. Daniel Ekeroth argues that the blast beat was first performed by the Swedish group Asocial on their 1982 demo. [[Lärm]] ("Campaign For Musical Destruction")<ref>Ekeroth, p. 22.</ref> [[Dirty Rotten Imbeciles]] ("No Sense"),<ref name=macgregor/> [[Stormtroopers of Death]] ("Milk"),<ref>Stormtroopers of Death, 1985, track 11.</ref> [[Sarcófago]] ("Satanas"),<ref>Sarcófago,</ref> [[Sepultura]] ("Antichrist"),<ref>Sepultura, 1986, track 10.</ref> and [[Repulsion (band)|Repulsion]]<ref name=repulsion/> also included the technique prior to Napalm Death's emergence.