ALL TOO OFTEN, when you see bands that specialise in quirky songtitles, their wordplay proves more entertaining than their music. This isn’t true of The Callous Daoboys. Their third album has tracks called The Elephant Man In The Room and Beautiful Dude Missile, these madcap monikers complimented by some of the most insane yet compelling mathcore to come from the US since The Dillinger Escape Plan broke up.
The Atlanta rabble use a six-piece line-up, spoken word and an onslaught of samples to bring their lunacy to life, with all three raging unabashedly on opening salvo Following the sounds of record scratching, barely 10 seconds of polyrhythmic percussion, squealing guitars and seething vocals strike. Then there’s a funky bass lick. Then there’s a metal break exacerbated by ranting and the stabbing violin notesIt’s batshit – but you remember all of it.
