The Callous Daoboys – “Superstar Therapist”

Superstar Therapist will kick you within the shin, slap you with a wrecking ball, spit in your face, after which kiss you gently on the brow.

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The complete mathcore scene lit up in a blaze of pleasure when Die on Mars graced us with its presence. It was a agency debut from an explosive group of individuals. It nonetheless holds up fairly nicely some three years later, however it calls for a follow-up. The time has come for The Callous Daoboys to reprise their songwriting efficiency and ship the products. Superstar Therapist is probably going probably the most anticipated mathcore releases prior to now couple of years, and let me reassure you proper off the bat – the wait was price it, and the document is a licensed fucking banger.

I keep in mind discovering Die on Mars a few years in the past and easily going nuts over The Callous Daoboys and their frantic, erratic, tempestuous perspective. For those who’re into heavy and chaotic music, it’s actually exhausting to not fall head over heels for this band; I imply, they’re most likely the mathcore band that finest embodies the insanity-driven method to presenting your tunes inside the confines of the style, adroitly carrying ahead a torch which was ignited by The Dillinger Escape Plan, believed to be nearly useless. Yeah, yeah, massive phrases, daring assertion, certain, however have you ever heard this shit?! It’s unbelievable. Whereas their stay performances can’t but be pretty in comparison with those of their religious ancestors, I’m certain we’ll finally get to one thing on model and uniquely their very own up at that stage.

Round my first pay attention of The Callous Daoboys‘ Superstar Therapist I had a sense that I’m at a Cirque du Soleil present, however held in probably the most hostile corners of the Amazon jungle, the place the performers are juggling chainsaws and flamethrowers, leaping ramps and chasms with rocket-powered monster vehicles. Even this doesn’t fairly really feel prefer it cuts it, however it’s the most effective I can do to explain my first impression. There’s a lot occurring in such brief timespans that you just can’t unpack something. The primary pay attention is sort of a throwaway lap; you simply barely get to dip your toes. An consideration span can solely deal with a lot.

Subsequent listens allowed me to actually revel within the loopy magic that’s working amuck throughout. You’ll be able to undoubtedly inform that the band continues to be exploring avenues when it comes to crystalizing their identification and sound, however you may also inform that they’ve loads of edge and energy, and that they certain as fuck aren’t afraid to parade it round like a glistening trophy of insanity. In addition they went additional with experimentation on the document, making it really feel much less like your informal cut-and-dried mathcore album and extra like an expertise that takes what it wants from wherever it appears like – in an effort to ship probably the most compelling narrative doable.

Superstar Therapist is, as one would possibly count on, a extremely various expertise, one which makes glorious use of all of the disparate ends which might be thrown round. Despite all of the chaos encroaching each second, there’s an oddball sort of sense/logic that permeates each fiber and provides us that intestine feeling that it’s not fully nonsense and that we should always comply with by with it. The rolling chugs and riffs are clearly all there, they usually hit as exhausting as ever, beckoning you to bang your limbs as if being electrocuted.

“Title Observe” begins out ominously with mellow and eerie noises earlier than plunging us right into a collection of stacked conveyor belts fabricated from coarse sandpaper. Solely then does it proceed to construct up what is among the most anthemic and superb paths by one thing that’s surprisingly upbeat and catchy. It’s top-of-the-line programs I’ve seen a track take this yr. It’s all in all a grand temper, which I didn’t count on to listen to and it’s simply considered one of my favourite moments on the document. “Star Child” ends the document in its latter half with what’s mainly probably the most pop-driven moments I might’ve ever heard on a heavy album. It’s relentlessly catchy and unbelievably tasteful. These are simply two moments, however I needed to supply them as examples to the range I rave about as being so novel. There are different, extra experimental leanings moreover these, that are going to subvert expectations and make you understand that there’s one thing you at all times needed however by no means knew so.

The Callous Daoboys are alongside a mere handful of bands on the high of the mathcore meals chain. I’ve completely no doubts about this, and Superstar Therapist solely additional cements this beforehand acquired perception. Strap in, put your helmet on, exhale with reduction, and stay it up – you may be demolished, and there’s nothing you are able to do about it. Destruction has by no means appeared so divine.