The name Child Abuse is pretty provocative. Who came up with it?
I came up with the name and I’m not proud of it. What happened was, Luke and I started playing and he was on this little tiny Casio keyboard and I had this tiny little drumset and it just kinda sounded like brutal kids’ music. Once you hear the music I think it makes a little more sense, but it’s a jarring name if you haven’t heard the music. It was supposed to be jarring, but I don’t think we had any idea that we’d be together five years later or touring or even leaving the neighborhood, to be honest. Do you get punks and hardcore kids at your shows? How do they react? I think like our music, our audience isn’t that classifiable. I wouldn’t say we fit into the punk scene. On the occasion they happen to be at a show, they really like it, but it might be a little too nerdy for them. I don’t know. I read a review from a metal magazine that hated it. Yeah, a lot of people hate it. The interesting thing is, all those reviews, it’s about 50/50 of people passionately hating it, and people lo
