Blast or The Blast may refer to:

  • Explosion, a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner
  • Detonation, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front
  • A planned explosion in a mine, quarry or other situation in order to fragment rock

Film

  • Blast (1997 film), starring Andrew Divoff
  • Blast (2000 film), starring Liesel Matthews
  • Blast (2004 film), an action comedy film
  • Blast! (1972 film) or The Final Comedown, an American drama
  • BLAST! (2008 film), a documentary about the BLAST telescope
  • A Blast, a 2014 film directed by Syllas Tzoumerkas

Magazines

  • Blast (British magazine), a 1914–15 literary magazine of the Vorticist movement
  • Blast (U.S. magazine), a 1933–34 American short-story magazine
  • The Blast (magazine), a 1916–17 American anarchist periodical

Music

  • Blast (American band), a hardcore punk band
  • Blast (Russian band), an indie band
  • Blxst, an American rapper
  • Blast, a Danish band with which Hanne Boel performed
  • Blast (album), by Holly Johnson, 1989
  • The Blast (album), by Yuvan Shankar Raja, 1999
  • "The Blast" (song), by Reflection Eternal, 2001
  • "Blast", a song by Momoiro Clover Z, 2017
  • Blast beat, a type of drum beat

Science and technology

  • BLAST (protocol), file transfer software
  • BLAST (telescope), Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
  • BLAST (biotechnology), Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, an algorithm used in bioinformatics
  • Blast cell or precursor cell, in cytology, a type of partially differentiated, usually unipotent cell
  • Blast disease, a disease of cereal crops
  • Blast injury, a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion
  • BLAST network, a proposed rapid transit system for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time, a transceiver architecture
  • FreeX Blast, a German paraglider design

Other

  • Blast! (comics), a 1991 British comic
  • Blast! (musical), a 2001 Broadway musical
  • Blast! Entertainment, a defunct video game developer and publisher
  • C. L. Blast (1934–2016), recording name of Clarence Lewis
  • Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust
  • Bus Line Service of Turlock (BLAST), the former name for the public bus service operated by Turlock Transit in Turlock, California, US
  • Blast Premier, a Counter-Strike esports league
  • Blast TV, a Philippine Internet-based TV and streaming service
  • Blast (African TV channel), a television channel in Angola and Mozambique

See also

  • Blaster (disambiguation)
  • Blasting (disambiguation)
  • Blast Off (disambiguation)