{"id":237175,"date":"2025-11-01T04:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237175\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T04:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:25:14","slug":"these-typical-metalheads-long-haired-with-their-jackets-theyu2019re-the-ones-standing-there-and-singing-backstreet-boys-and-cascada-five-minutes-with-electric-callboy-the-band-making-metal-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237175\/","title":{"rendered":"These typical metalheads, long-haired with their jackets, they\\u2019re the ones standing there and singing Backstreet Boys and Cascada.” Five minutes with Electric Callboy, the band “making metal accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electric Callboy<\/a> have made metal silly. Really silly. Sillier than GWAR. Sillier than Lordi. Sillier than Tenacious D<\/a>. Crucially, though, and much like those greats, the German techno-pop-metalcore crew don’t treat their music with any less respect than the most po-faced, basement-level extreme metal artiste.<\/p>\n

It’s why they’ve become one of Europe’s most popular rock bands in recent years – understandable when you’ve got ravers moshing like hardcore kids and diehard metalheads singing their hearts out to 90s pop covers. We got together with vocalists Kevin Ratajczak and Nico Sallach to pick their brains on Europop, collabing with BABYMETAL<\/a> and the alternative lives they could have led.<\/p>\n

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Do you think you\u2019ve helped metalheads broaden their tastes with Europop and dance?<\/p>\n

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Kevin: \u201cI once read a headline that said that we make metal more accessible for people, and I love that! We didn\u2019t fit in 15 years ago because we used some instruments and sounds that were \u2018dance\u2019 based. People always strive to give music names, to pigeonhole. Why? If you like something, you like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nico: \u201cI don\u2019t believe in guilty pleasures. These typical metal heads, long-haired with their jackets on and everything, they\u2019re the ones standing there and singing [Cascada cover] Every Time We Touch with us with tears in their eyes and singing along to Backstreet Boys. It\u2019s an evolution that I really love, because we don\u2019t have to feel that it\u2019s wrong anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

On that note, what\u2019s your least rock\u2019n\u2019roll hobby?<\/p>\n

Nico: \u201cI play darts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kevin: \u201cIsn\u2019t that like throwing needles at things? Isn\u2019t that metal in some way?\u201d<\/p>\n

Nico: \u201cI\u2019m addicted. I went down that rabbit hole a year ago now, I play nearly every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kevin: \u201cHonestly, compared to other musicians, my life seems so boring, but it\u2019s so satisfying! I\u2019m the daddy with his two kids at the playground. It\u2019s my birthday in two weeks and I asked for this box thing that wraps your garden hose up after watering the plants. I am not rock\u2019n\u2019roll at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Do you reckon your kids will ever form a band?<\/p>\n

Kevin: \u201cMy kids are two and four years old at this moment, and they love our music. At first it was very flattering for us, because our kids enjoy what we\u2019re doing, but now I can\u2019t<\/p>\n

listen to our own music anymore! It\u2019s every single day, and people come over and must think I\u2019m so vain listening to my own songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nico: \u201cMy son\u2019s biggest hero right now is Kevin. He\u2019s not into my singing voice; he loves his shouting voice. He\u2019s also listening to our music all day long, and he\u2019s doing the same<\/p>\n

movements that Kevin is doing on the videos. I bought him a little drum kit, and the others have microphones and ukuleles, so we\u2019ll see! I will support them in whatever they want to do, unless they start writing folklore songs. [laughs]\u201d<\/p>\n

If you weren\u2019t a musician, what job would you be doing?<\/p>\n

Kevin: \u201cI\u2019d be in sales, selling stuff. I used to work for a car company in the wholesale section. I love to talk to people and be sociable, and with that comes the ability to sell things. I\u2019m so happy music worked out though.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nico: \u201cI have more than 500 games in my library, so I would be a professional gamer, who wished he was a musician! I\u2019m always afraid this is going to go away though, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019re known for bringing the party. Are there any other genres you\u2019d like to try?<\/p>\n

Kevin: \u201cOur music is not simply made, but it sounds simple. I\u2019d love to do something really complex, a little bit more involved in the instrumental part. I\u2019m usually the piano guy, and I used to be in a jazz band when I was younger, so I could definitely do some of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nico: \u201cI would love to write a love song! Imagine being Bon Jovi and writing Bed Of Roses. Obviously, we can do whatever we like, but I think if we wrote something like Bed Of Roses, nobody would actually take it seriously and think it\u2019s a joke!\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve collaborated with BABYMETAL and your shows are getting bigger and bigger. Are you pinching yourselves yet?<\/p>\n

Nico: \u201cLook at this smile on my face! This is our life now. Do you know that feeling when you were, like, 16 or 17, and the small amount of pocket money from your parents was not enough? So you decided to do a small job alongside school, and all of a sudden, you had enough money to buy things that you wanted to buy? This is the feeling [we have] right now. Suddenly, we can do things that we couldn\u2019t before with our staging and the scale of things, and that\u2019s a crazy feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kevin: \u201cWe just collaborated with another artist, too, and we\u2019re desperate to tell you, but we can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Electric Callboy headline London\u2019s Alexandra Palace on November 11 supported by Bury Tomorrow and Wargasm. New single TANZNEID is out now<\/p>\n

Electric Callboy – TANZNEID (OFFICIAL VIDEO) – YouTube
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