The Fastest Music You've Ever Heard
 

What would you say is the fastest music you've ever heard? I'm looking for either albums or just bands in general here. Any genre is fine: bluegrass, metal, jazz, punk, IDM, etc., if you have a contender I want to hear about it.

So... who's first?

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The Dillards-Dooley
 

The Dillards were a popular bluegrass band in the late 50s and early 60s.

What do you mean by "fastest music" like fastest playing or fastest time-wise for the length of the song?

Fastest Music: Time-Wise




Fastest Music: Playing Instruments Fast





@Necromancer
The Dillards were pretty good pickers, that reminded me for my pick: Flatt & Scruggs (Clarence White also played on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show - any interest for him?)

Richard D James Album's percussion is up there

I love The Dillards too but the one I picked is quicker. :D And I assume fastest means quickest and not shortest.

Going a similar route here...

Instrumentals will be the fastest normally I think, unless the vocal is sped up perhaps.

Metal Militia by Metallica is pretty fast.

there was an 80s metal band called nitro. they were terrible but pretty fast

Oh yeah, the quad-neck guitar guys :rofl:

Early BRAIN DRILL still blows my mind. That drummer is too ****ing fast. They play about 4 minutes worth of music in about 90 seconds.

Heh. Nice!

Keep in mind this thread is asking for bands or particular albums that are consistently fast, not individual songs by bands that aren't normally very fast.

Can't post a video right now, but listen to some rusty cooley. The tempo might not be insane but I challenge anyone to fit more notes into less time.

Napalm Death or Extreme Noise Terror, I guess.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but some fast rapping:

No Vsnares yet?

We No Speak American by Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup is pretty quick in terms of style and duration.

Here, have some Rusty mother****ing Cooley!

Note - Fully aware this sounds like ****.

I'm gonna go with a slightly unconventional answer...

Jerry Lee Lewis' "Live at the Star Club, Hamburg" isn't literally the fastest stuff I've ever heard. But every single song on that album (Minus the ballad "Your Cheating Heart") is a rock n' roll classic that sounds like Jerry singing over a 50's version of Pig Destroyer as his backing band. The real band was the Nashville Teens, so props to them for keeping up.

I would post the link if I could... but I'm a newbie, so yeah

I think it easy to nominate Grindcore bands because of the BPM of the drum tracks but I am pretty sure this is not necessarily what Janszoon is looking for.

As whole albums keeping up a frenetic pace I will suggest these:

Kreator - Pleasure To Kill (virtually all tracks at breakneck speed but the band do keep up with the drummer for once!)
Ramones - It's Alive ( a 28 track double live album clocking in at under an hour and doesn't really let up in that time)
Slayer - Reign In Blood (obviously)
The Residents - The Third Reich And Roll / The Avalanches - Since You Left Me (both pack in an insane amount of samples in a relatively short time).
Turing Machine - Zwei (it's like Can multiplied by 100 in terms of notes crammed into each track).
Giraffes? Giraffes! - More Skin With Milk Mouth ( Math Rock played by speed freaks).

How's that?