MY EARS ARE THE CHILDREN AND THESE GUYS ARE ABUSING THEM, BUT I LIKE IT

Child Abuse are nothing if not different. Like, seriously different, as in I’ve never heard anything like them before, ever. Their crazy blend of metal, grind, prog and electronica will likely send a lot of our close-minded metal community readers running but, well, too bad. It’s not often that you find bands of any genre who truly think outside the box musically, and though it’s sometimes grating (heyo Psyopus) when those rare bands do come along that are truly doing something to push their genre(s) forward in any way you just can’t ignore them, even if it’s a challenging listen. Child Abuse’s three-dimensional polyrhythmic grind freakouts beneath keyboard blips and boops and tortured psychiatric experiment vocals are definitely challenging… but ultimately worth it.

Elise at Reign in Blonde wrote a fun piece this morning about her first encounter with Child Abuse a few years back and her subsequent love affair with these New York gentlemen. I won’t steal her thunder because Elise is a good writer and you ought to check out her story, but let’s just say it involves a small Brooklyn club, ninjas and a giant orgy. Or maybe just one of those things, but it’s still a great read.

Check out Child Abuse on MySpace and their new album Cut And Run, which is out now.

-VN