Under neon pink and green lights, 8,000 fans are going berserk inside Oberhausen’s cavernous Rudolf Weber-Arena. As streamers blast into the rafters and fountains of pyro burst upwards, a hardstyle beat spurs the kind of mass rave you’d expect from fellow German club veterans Scooter. Moments later, Electric Callboy, the band orchestrating the carnage, dressed in furry white gilets and bowl cut wigs, tear into a breakdown meatier than Till Lindemann’s left thigh, and the mayhem kicks up a notch, with seething pits sucking up bodies like a black hole.
Chaos like this has been commonplace in Electric Callboy’s world ever since they released their adrenalinecharged anthem, Hypa Hypa, in 2020. A perfect blend of EDM anthemia and brutal metalcore, it had an immediate impact, but it was the song’s ridiculous mullet-shaking, crotch-thrusting, moustache-stroking video that turned them into viral sensations, clocking up 26 million views and counting on YouTube – and since then, it’s been a rollercoaster.
Hilarious music videos for singles (concept: pigeon-neck bopping and bush trimming) and (tight lycra and getting
