2/12/13 NYC’s own Child Abuse played at death metal bar St Vitus in the bowels Greenpoint. Comprising of Oran Canfield on drums, Tim Dahl on bass/vocals and Eric Lau on keyboard /vocals, they blazed through a set of their relentless spastic death-jazz / prog-hardcore hybrid in dizzying time signatures with brute force, but more with punches, slaps and parries than bludgeons. Premiering a ton of new material, sounds belch out of the mix and it’s sometimes hard to discern whether they come from the keys or the drums - Dahl employs a bevy of effects which transform sounds from his instrument into piercing bell-like overtones, voices, synths, bassoons, and on one song I could swear an angelic choir seemed to poke its head thru the storm clouds. Here is a video made for the band a while back by video wunderkind Kenneth Curwood.
Source: foetus.org
