Back home in Bogota, teen brothers Carly and Mateo — played by siblings (and Disney Channel veterans) Mateo and Moisés Arias — are metal-blasting, skateboard-riding punks, and reluctant partners in ...

“There are 14 different types of blast beats???” I hear the non-drummers amongst you exclaiming in shock. Welp, if you thought a blast beat is a blast beat is a blast beat, you’d be wrong. And ...

Sublimely specific in content yet boasting wide appeal, Colombian filmmaker Esteban Arango’s “Blast Beat” expands on his short film with the same title (and starring the same co-leads) for a terrific ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Drew Baumgartner is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. A passionate comics reader and film buff, he swears he'll love any story if its title makes him laugh. The first trailer for Blast Beat has just ...

Blast Beat, a film about a Colombian family struggling to adapt to their new life in Atlanta in the summer of 1999, is both by and about brothers. Writer-director Esteban Arango and his co-writer ...

Quotes about the blast beat: [mimics ultra-fast double-bass beat; John] It's drummers playing for drummers. It's called, Look at me. Listen how fast I can go — dudududududududu . There's no melody, ...

In a new-old interview with Drumtalk (the interview was conducted last year in Germany, but is just being released on YouTube now for some reason), Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante takes credit for ...

Colombian American director Esteban Arango's debut 'Blast Beat' follows an immigrant family seeking political asylum as their metalhead eldest son angles to parlay his academic prowess into a NASA job ...