The Callous Daoboys recently released their new EP God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys, and now we’ve got a new vinyl pressing of their 2019 debut LP Die On Mars up for pre-order in the BV shop.
The new variant, dubbed “Deimos,” is red/yellow/purple twister vinyl, and it’s limited to just 150 copies. Pre-order yours now while they last.
For more on The Callous Daoboys, here’s an excerpt of our 2022 feature on the band: If you’ve read anything about The Callous Daoboys, you’ve probably seen them compared to any number of late ’90s / early 2000s mathcore and metalcore bands — Every Time I Die, Botch, The Chariot, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, etc — and they do indeed look up to all those bands, but their goals don’t start and end with reviving 20-year-old mathcore records. As with their live show, they’d like their albums to reach people outside of niche heavy music too.
“I mean, I consider what we do closer to pop music than it is to grindcore or something like that,” [vocalist] Carson [Pace] says. “Like, I’m aiming at pop music, I just happened to take this pretty big left turn” [laughs]. “I don’t just want to be this middling heavy band,” he adds. “I wanna be The 1975, I wanna be Deftones. So yeah, I think there is a pretty big element of like: we want this music to be for everybody, is it going to be? No, but I want there to be something for everybody.” When I bring up how a band like System Of A Down’s early 2000s success gives me hope that a weird, heavy band could have a place in the mainstream again, he excitedly piggybacks on the idea. “Yeah, like, it makes zero sense that Korn are as big as they are. They are so goddamn weird. Every time we play Korn in the bus, I’m just like, ‘Guys, it’s possible, like we can do this [laughs]. We’re weird, but it’s completely possible.’”
Pre-order our new vinyl variant here.
