Question 3 of at most 6 leading so far, Black metal
What pace?
Rated the same way, and the range it covers is wider than any other axis here: the encyclopedia holds genres that run at ten beats a minute and genres that run at four hundred.
Hear the difference
An hour spent on one chord, against the shortest recorded song there is — a second and a half. Everything else sits between them.
- A chord, and an hour from 57:30
Struck and sustained, with the amplifier's feedback doing everything that happens next. The playing is minimal and the listening is not.
Open on YouTube at 57:30 - The blast beat from 19:03
One and a half seconds - the shortest recorded song there is - and the joke is load-bearing: the blast beat makes a song this short a coherent statement rather than a fragment.
Open on YouTube at 19:03
Both are sound passages from the genre pages, cued to the second. Nothing reaches Google until you press play.