Biography

There isn’t a single clean passage, moody interlude, orchestral intro, or shoegazing break on Black Fast’s unapologetically destructive third album, Spectre of Ruin. Black Fast is a perfect soundtrack to mornings spent in gridlocked traffic and evenings spent demolishing a backyard party. The St. Louis crew’s sophomore set, Terms of Surrender, was praised as “a meditation in calculated chaos” and “a barnburner with serious crossover appeal” by Pitchfork. Since the release of their EP Starving Out the Light (2013), and Terms of Surrender (2015), Black Fast has joined forces with bands like Overkill, Goatwhore, Voivod, Havok, Revocation, Crowbar, Vektor, Hate Eternal, Rivers of Nihil, and Battlecross. Album opener “Cloak of Lies” sets the stage for Spectre of Ruin with a heaping helping of everything Black Fast, a locomotive of riffs barreling down the tracks with determined speed and aggression. Spectre of Ruin was summoned into sharp focus at Mana Studios with producer Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Goatwhore). It’s all killer, no filller. Swearing off the trappings of the mainstream with steadfast dedication to their chosen craft, vocalist/guitarist Aaron Akin says, “We’ve pushed our chips all-in since the beginning. We’re playing metal. We don’t really give a shit about ‘making it.’” The Black Fast mission is ruthlessly simple: play loud, bark at the moon, raise a fist, and head bang like there’s no tomorrow.