[kj] OT: First speed metal track of all time

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I don't assume that.

But I'm also talking about a scene where merchandise explicitly 
referring to the d-beat is common, like:

http://www.punkstuff.com/search.php?mode=search&page=1


I think it's dumb and would never buy that stuff, but it exists.

Before I learned that the certain thrashy, fast tempo style of drumming 
I associate with hardcore punk was divided into d-beat and other kinds 
of fast beats (doubled timed 4/4 or something, I dunno), I used to think 
Minor Threat had pushed it front and center (not Discharge) since most 
of MT's output uses what to my younger ears at one time sounded like the 
same drum pattern, over and over.

-Oliver


Leigh Newton wrote:

> That kind of beat comes up in a variety of different kinds of music. Thrash metal, industrial, even shitty mallcore pop-punk. I don't doubt for a second what you claim the origins of that style of drumming to be. But I've been hearing and playing that beat in songs for the past 15 years and I'd never heard the term d-beat until you mentioned it. Which is more a testament to how out of touch I am but still, I wouldn't go assuming that any drummer who plays that kind of beat is giving a tip of his hat to the underground crust-punk scene. 

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