Blast

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
 * 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

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