I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven
Artist: The Callous Daoboys
Record Label: MNRK Heavy
Release Date: 16 May 2025
The Callous Daoboys, the American mathcore sextet from Atlanta, Georgia, are releasing the
successor to the acclaimed “Celebrety Therapist”, released in 2022, and the EP “God Smiles
Upon The Callous Daoboys”, released the following year.
This new studio album, entitled “I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven”, stands out for the
band’s continuation of the evolution they made on “Celebrety Therapist” and the insertion of
slightly more pop sounds on the EP released the following year.
The first track introduces the album, and the more absent-minded will be surprised as soon as
they start listening to the first song, “Schizophrenia Legacy”, as schizophrenic (as the name
suggests) as it is well-crafted, and “Full Moon Guidance”, which gives us a heavy sound with
a mathematical breakdown that left us calculating how many letters were in the expression
“Close Your Mouth”, given how surprised we were that it was one of the first times I’d heard the
band.
We continue with one of the singles already released, “Two-Headed Trout”, which along with
others such as “Lemon”, “The Demon of Unreality Limping Like a Dog” and “Distracted by the
Mona Lisa”, introduces us to much of what the album is about, Emo, Pop, Metalcore,
Breakdowns, all so well chosen that we seriously recommend watching the video clips too,
which are guaranteed to be a crucial part of the band’s image.
The fifth song, “Tears on Lambo”, already has a touch of hardcore, with a transition to
something more chill, as surprising as it is well done, to return to aggression, is as good an
example as this album, which has evolved since the first song, surprise after surprise.
“Lemon” is a clearly commercial, danceable song that will easily be played on the radio,
reminding us a little of Justin Timberlake’s songs.
Like a good metal album, there has to be a ballad, and that ballad in “I Don’t Want to See You
in Heaven” is called “Body Horror for Birds”, and anyone who reads this title has no idea what
they’re going to hear.
After a little ballad, we had to have a more upbeat song, “The Demon of Unreality Limping
Like a Dog”, a single released in conjunction with “Two-Headed Trout”, which follows on from
the music video for “Two-Headed Trout”. Honestly, one of my favorite songs on this album,
once again with a hardcore feel, even though it has a more melodic chorus.
To finish off this masterpiece, we have “III. Country Song in Reverse”, a delightful 11-minute
song, and I LOVE YOU BREAKDOWNS. Simply incredible.
Conclusion
In short, this is undoubtedly one of the best albums we’ve heard this year. There’s no denying
the comparison to The Dillinger Escape Plan, which we feel was the source of many of this
band’s influences, an album that had us hooked from start to finish, where giving
breakdowns like the ones in “I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven” is like giving a child a
lollipop.
Our advice: listen to this album alone, at home where you can’t hurt anyone by
gesticulating with the energy this album brings, and you’ll be right back where you started.
When something is good, it always tastes good.
The intelligence, the maturity, the surprise and the energy have made this album, for us, one
of the albums of the year for metalcore fans.
Recommended for fans of: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Better Lovers, Everytime I Die, Stray
From the Path, Architects, Knocked Loose