Review: Child Bite

A Review of Child Bite's Negative Noise

By Melanie Bikowski 
​QuailBellMagazine.com

Lately, I have been deep in the bowels of Detroit’s music scene. From Techno to Punk Rock, Detroit has always been a staple of raw heartfelt opinionated emotional statements about what is happening in our modern society and the harmony of the human struggles. This city is a birthplace for progressive and substantially talented musicians. It’s also an incredibly hard city to love just like the complex and experimentally weird Punk Rock band, Child Bite.  

 
Their album, Negative Noise seems to be a blend of Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Black Sabbath. I find myself getting lost in the unexpected barrage of substantially dizzying guitar riffs that is aligned with vocalist’s harsh declarations of paranoia of being meaningless and insignificant in today’s society. This album leaves me with a striking respect for the top-notch musicianship that has been put into producing these albums.
 
The album starts out with “Death before Dementia”, which is a short song filled with raspy screeching from vocalist, Shawn Knight. The catchiness of the melodies of the guitar and harmony of the quick drumming will immediately align you with the weirdness that is this album. It then continues with the haunting guitar in “Paralytic Phantasm”, but it is the bass that will leave you steadily anchored in feelings that are being addressed about the paranoia of our choices and the pressure in “the chances of survival being slim.” The next two songs address the cathartic effects of video games and how they can be harmonized between positive and negative effects. By the time you get to the song “Apex Anxiety”, you’ll find yourself banging your head up and down and maybe even getting lost in another dimension of self-reflection, societal questions of narcissism, video game habits, and the pressure of our choices with lyrics like “It’s too late to change.”
 
 I don’t think that the album leaves any instrument in the dark. “Euphoria Vermin” and “Born a Hog” give the drums the spotlight with the quick rapid fire marching drum beat and the almost lunatic vocals that enhance the chaotic and nihilistic theme that is being represented by this album. It’s almost as this entire album is a great representation of the rat race with lyrics like “better be top of the food chain” and the effects of the music give you an experience about how we are all drowning in the competitions of being better than everyone. Almost every track has a point to make about our society and how we are all aware of the changes that need to happen.
 
My favorite track in the whole album is “The Great Ego Flood”, which is a musical piece about the narcissistic obsession of social media and gives us a full emotional break down of the disgusting saturation of how social media has affected our lives and how we have been so distracted by it. It’s also a very raw and raspy anger tone that has the undertones of sarcasm with lyrics like “I don’t even know why they do it. Please share with me” It leads right into the track “Into the Disease” that gives you even more opinions about the toxicity of the distractions that are filled in this country.

Overall, this album might leave you exhausted and questioning how you can change society. It is a beautiful representation of the chaotic comforts of our society and I can feel myself drowning in the struggles to do the right thing in life. By the end of the album, I just want to dive into some bad behavior and just rip off the mask that society has created for me. I feel purified by the music and the vocals. And if you are like me, a rebellious fairy punk that just wants her message to be heard, you will find yourself digging into this album and maybe even more of Detroit’s other extremely talented music projects. 
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