“It started with the pursuit of just being annoying,” Carson Pace recalls of how The Callous Daoboys’ chaotic collage of genres first crystallised. They knew they wanted to be subversive and polarising, to have fans dancing and moshing in one corner while those further back furrow their brows, trying to make sense of the whirlwind unfolding in front of them. Ultimately, The Callous Daoboys want to challenge you – and they’re laughing in the face of convention as they do it. They’ll turn your brain upside-down and shake it like a piggy bank while letting off party streamers at the same time, such is the effect of their angular yet playful mathcore that doesn’t merely flirt with other genres as it does wrestle with them. Take What Is Delicious? Who Swarms? from 2022’s breakth...