# Blast

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**Blast** or **The Blast** may refer to:

- [Explosion](/source/Explosion), a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner
- [Detonation](/source/Detonation), an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front
- A planned explosion in a [mine](/source/Mining), [quarry](/source/Quarry) or other situation in order to fragment rock

## Film

- *Blast* (1997 film), starring [Andrew Divoff](/source/Andrew_Divoff)
- *Blast* (2000 film), starring [Liesel Matthews](/source/Liesel_Matthews)
- [*Blast* (2004 film)](/source/Blast_(2004_film)), an action comedy film
- [*Blast!* (1972 film)](/source/Blast!_(1972_film)) or *The Final Comedown*, an American drama
- [*BLAST!* (2008 film)](/source/BLAST!_(2008_film)), a documentary about the BLAST telescope
- *[A Blast](/source/A_Blast)*, a 2014 film directed by Syllas Tzoumerkas

## Magazines

- [*Blast* (British magazine)](/source/Blast_(British_magazine)), a 1914–15 literary magazine of the Vorticist movement
- [*Blast* (U.S. magazine)](/source/Blast_(U.S._magazine)), a 1933–34 American short-story magazine
- [*The Blast* (magazine)](/source/The_Blast_(magazine)), a 1916–17 American anarchist periodical

## Music

- [Blast (American band)](/source/Blast_(American_band)), a hardcore punk band
- [Blast (Russian band)](/source/Blast_(Russian_band)), an indie band
- [Blxst](/source/Blxst), an American rapper
- Blast, a Danish band with which [Hanne Boel](/source/Hanne_Boel) performed
- [*Blast* (album)](/source/Blast_(album)), by Holly Johnson, 1989
- [*The Blast* (album)](/source/The_Blast_(album)), by Yuvan Shankar Raja, 1999
- ["The Blast" (song)](/source/The_Blast_(song)), by Reflection Eternal, 2001
- "Blast", a song by [Momoiro Clover Z](/source/Momoiro_Clover_Z_discography#Singles), 2017
- [Blast beat](/source/Blast_beat), a type of drum beat

## Science and technology

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

## Other

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

## See also

- [Blaster (disambiguation)](/source/Blaster_(disambiguation))
- [Blasting (disambiguation)](/source/Blasting_(disambiguation))
- [Blast Off (disambiguation)](/source/Blast_Off_(disambiguation))

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