Speed debut new single "The First Test" along with official music video

Australian hardcore band Speed have released a new single, "The First Test", which is the second single from the bands debut full length album, ONLY ONE MODE, out July 12th through Flatspot Records.
Pre-order ONLY ONE MODE here.
Speed is currently support for Knocked Loose's North American tour along with Show Me The Body and Loathe.

04/27 Las Vegas, NV @ Sick New World
04/29 Detroit, MI @ Russell Industrial Center
05/01 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
05/03 Lawrence, KS @ Granada
05/04 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion
05/05 Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum
05/06 Austin, TX @ Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater
05/07 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
05/10 Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee
05/11 Los Angeles, CA @ The Shrine
05/12 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
05/14 Seattle, WA @ Showbox Sodo
05/15 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
05/17 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
05/18 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
05/19 Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
05/21 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
05/22 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
05/23 Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed
05/24 Newport, KY @ Megacorp Pavilion
05/25 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
05/28 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage Age
05/29 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
05/31 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
06/01 Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
06/03 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
06/04 Montreal, QC @ Olympia
06/05 Toronto, ON @ History
06/07 Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
06/08 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
06/09 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
36 comments
Post CommentThat guitar player is the weirdest shaped industry plant I've ever seen. Imagine celebrating that a kardashian came to see your band 😂😂😂
Please someone give these dorks a few vials of Testosterone enanthate.
you know what? Australia has better bands. Midnight Oil, the Chats, and Rose Tattoo come to mind.
None of those bands are going to be able to follow these guys live. Say what you want, this bands energy is crazy.
Everyone knows Speed is why these dates are really selling out and not because of the headliner knocked loose. Now that he busts this flute out? Shiiiiiiit they might as well take over headlining
^ Bullshit. Speed is a 300 capacity sellout tops band. Not a bad thing but they are not as big as you think they are otherwise where's the headlining tour? They don't even have headlining dates on this tour.
you know what? Australia has better bands. Midnight Oil, the Chats, and Rose Tattoo come to mind. Men At Work > All three & Speed Speed with Keanu Reeves > Speed the wannabe Madball
This one time at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy
The first test was to make something that doesn't suck.
Never heard them before. Track was pretty weak, made the new Knocked Loose look really good by comparison.
^ and stay with the most word name bands like "forlorn on a sidewalk remembering your name written in stars walking backwards against the moon"
Came back just to respond to the lame ass screen warriors. I've seen these guys be involved in bands since I was their age, 15 or so in the Eastern Aus hc scene. Your industry plant comments are as boring as they are unoriginal. People are excited about this band because the have a refreshing energy on perspective on hc. Yes, it sounds like New York hardcore. It builds on it, and carries a message that's important to a lot of people in Australia which is diverse and a lot of people from an Asian background aren't considered centre stage. If you read their lyrics you might get it. Anyone being racist in the comment section can get absolutely f*cked.
Why are the most generic bands hyped to death? Because the ones hyping have never heard the thousand other bands that did it first. I stg Speed, Scowl, and Knocked Loose are probably the most boring bands out right now and they're treated like God's gift to hardcore. Yawn.
"I've seen these guys be involved in bands since I was their age, 15 or so in the Eastern Aus hc scene." So all the way back to 2019?
""I've seen these guys be involved in bands since I was their age, 15 or so in the Eastern Aus hc scene." So all the way back to 2019?" Their guitar player is legit almost 40
Came back just to respond to the lame ass screen warriors. > They don't sing about being Asian & who cares if they are Asian? You're either a member of Speed or a simp. I've seen these guys be involved in bands since I was their age, 15 or so in the Eastern Aus hc scene. > You're 29 tops so since 2010. 🤡 Your industry plant comments are as boring as they are unoriginal. People are excited about this band because the have a refreshing energy on perspective on hc. > No they don't. Yes, it sounds like New York hardcore. > No it doesn't & what would you know? You live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 🤡 It builds on it, > No it doesn't. and carries a message that's important to a lot of people in Australia > Like what? which is diverse and a lot of people from an Asian background aren't considered centre stage. If you read their lyrics you might get it. Anyone being racist in the comment section can get absolutely f*cked.
^ Anyone being racist in the comment section can get absolutely f*cked. Agreed but this band is wannabe Madball, wannabe NYHC toughguy crap like Sunami etc. but keep playing the "you're racist if you don't like them" card if it makes you feel better. People myself included can dislike or even hate them cuz they're what I said they are, ok? Too fu cking bad if you don't like it.
Btw according to the 2021 census 15% of Australians are non-white, hardly "diverse". Barely any black or Latino people. Mostly white of European descent & Asian.
Everybody in the phone book named Chang wanna see my wang?
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nice flute gimmick you f*cking losers