Shortly after, Akin's friend, Ross Burnett, and Johanson's college classmate, Ryan Thompson, started playing together, and the band was formed in 2010.

[4] Black Fast announced that its debut studio album with eOne Music produced by Erik Rutan would be released in the summer of 2015.

Black Fast was ready to hit the road in the fall of 2018 to promote Spectre of Ruin, when they discovered their booking agent had quit without notice.

On June 28, 2014, Black Fast performed with the bands Shadows Fall, Dead by Wednesday, Hallow Point, and Gray's Divide.

[8] Black Fast announced via their Facebook page that they would be performing in the Winter Warriors Tour starting on November 30, 2014, alongside Battlecross, War of Ages, and Wretched.

From feverish rhythm playing in 'The Keep' to the exquisitely twisting runs in "Tongues of Silver," these guys make it sound easy to create catchy headbanging anthems."

[13] On July 13, 2018, Black Fast released its final studio album, "Spectre of Ruin," which was met with many positive reviews including metalwani.com.

In his review, Chuck Marshall said, "Technicians of deathly thrash, Black Fast return with a beautiful opus of menacing metal on their new album entitled 'Spectre of Ruin'.

And Brave Words[14] in their review stated, "Album opener "Cloak of Lies" sets the stage for Spectre of Ruin with a heaping helping of everything Black Fast represents, a locomotive of riffs barreling down the tracks with determined speed and aggression."