CHILD BITE - Negative Noise

May 31, 2016, 7 years ago

(Housecore)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 7.5

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CHILD BITE - Negative Noise

Cool vibe here, Detroit's Child Bite on their fourth full-length immediately sounding more like an antagonistic noisy punk band than anything you might expect from Housecore, opening cut “Death Before Dementia” channeling all sorts of Jesus Lizardian vibes. And that's the main comparison point as this album rolls on, each angular riff clashing with the next one, the vocals crazed but, luckily, never too distracting. The danger with this sort of artsy punk is that it can skirt a line between really interesting and creative and just really annoying and grating, really fast. Most bands who do this sort of thing end up being in the latter category, but Child Bite stay listenable, thanks to a ton of interesting and cool guitar work (check out “Video Blood”) and an ability to keep things toe-tapping and relatively rockin', even if it's rarely with a straight beat and is certainly never with an expected twist or turn. 

References within the sphere of metal are hard to come by, but imagine if the first Mr. Bungle album wasn't annoying circus music, and then remember that this band once did a 5” record of Anal Cunt covers with Phil Anselmo on vocals, and you're getting there (Anselmo produced this album, and did a good job, getting a raw and natural but clean and powerful sound). Musically, this sounds nothing like AC, but the spirit is there, and this band hits harder and with more reckless abandon than many of today's more concerned, processed metal bands, so for those reasons alone this oddity is worth your time, even though that 47 minute run time should have been chopped by about 15 minutes for maximum impact.



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