Expulsion of Fury — High-Speed Double-Stroke Blast — John Longstreth (Origin) Drum Lick | MetalForge
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Learn the Expulsion of Fury — High-Speed Double-Stroke Blast drum lick by John Longstreth of Origin. From Expulsion of Fury (Entity (2011)). "Expulsion of Fury" opens Origin's Entity (2011), an album widely regarded as one of the high points...
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1. John Longstreth's Signature Licks — "Expulsion of Fury" opens Origin's Entity (2011), an album widely regarded as one of the high points of the band's catalogue and a showcase for John Longstreth's reputation as one of extreme metal's fastest and most technically accomplished drummers. Longstreth grew up around jazz drumming — his father was a Kansas City jazz musician for fifty years, exposing him early to Buddy Rich, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane — before thrash bands like Slayer pulled him toward extreme metal, and he is credited with pioneering double-stroke bass drum technique and the one-handed drum roll within the genre. "Expulsion of Fury" puts both innovations on full display: the track opens at a punishing tempo with a sustained blast beat built on Longstreth's signature double-stroke kick technique, which lets him generate extreme speed and endurance without the single-stroke limitations that cap many other blast-beat drummers. His hands stay locked in tight, mechanically even patterns above the blast, and the one-handed roll technique he helped pioneer appears in the track's transitional fills, letting him maintain roll-like density even during rapid pattern changes. What makes this track instructive is not just raw velocity but control at that velocity — Longstreth's jazz-schooled sense of dynamics keeps every stroke articulate even as the tempo pushes past 220 BPM, a discipline that separates his playing from blast beats that blur into an undifferentiated wall of noise. For drummers, "Expulsion of Fury" is a foundational text in extreme death metal drumming specifically because of the double-stroke kick technique at its core: building that skill requires isolating the foot pattern at slow tempos before integrating it with the hands, and developing the ankle and leg endurance needed to sustain it across a full song. Learning this track develops extreme-tempo blast-beat stamina, the specific double-stroke bass drum coordination Longstreth pioneered, and the one-handed roll vocabulary that appears throughout his catalogue with Origin and Angelcorpse. It remains one of the clearest demonstrations of why Longstreth is considered a benchmark drummer within technical and brutal death metal.2. John Longstreth Profile — Build the double-stroke bass drum pattern at a slow tempo before integrating it with the hands Keep every blast-beat stroke articulate even as tempo pushes past 220 BPM — control over raw velocity Practice the one-handed roll technique isolated from the kit before applying it within transitional fills Develop ankle and leg endurance specifically for sustaining double-stroke kick patterns across a full song Maintain mechanically even hand patterns above the blast, independent of the foot pattern's complexity
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