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Electric Callboy (formerly known as Eskimo Callboy) is a German Electronicore band. Founded in Castrop-Rauxel in 2010, they're best known for their blend of heavy Metalcore elements and party beats, with a lot of comedic elements in their music and performances.Since their debut, the band's style and image have changed quite a bit. For their first decade they were fronted by singer Sebastian "Sushi" Biesler, who left the band in early 2020 to start his own project. He was replaced by Nico Sallach a few months later. In 2021, the band took down a number of old songs from all platforms after finding the lyrics no longer held up to modern sensibilities. They also changed their name from Eskimo Callboy to Electric Callboy in 2022 after learning that their original band name contained an ethnic slur.note In late 2021 and early 2022 they also tried to submit their song "We Got The Moves" to the German selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, but didn't make it into the national finals despite being the fan favorite.
They're also known to wear funny costumes on stage and in music videos. Their tours are documented in sitcom-themed vlogs that intercut performance footage with comedic behind-the-scenes skits. Starting in 2025, several members of the band have also performed hardstyle DJ sets under the name Electric Bassboy.
Members:
- Present:
- Kevin Ratajczak (2010-present) – vocals, keyboards, programming
- Daniel "Danskimo" Haniß (2010-present) – lead guitar
- Pascal Schillo (2010-present) – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Daniel Klossek (2010-present) – bass, backing vocals
- Nico Sallach (2020-present) – vocals
- Frank Zummo (Touring: 2024, Permanent: 2025-present) – drums
- Former:
- Michael "Micha" Malitzki (2010-2012) – drums
- Sebastian "Sushi" Biesler (2010-2020) – vocals
- David Friedrich (2012-2025) – drums
Discography:
- Eskimo (EP) (2010)
- Bury Me in Vegas (2012)
- We Are the Mess (2014)
- Crystals (2014)
- The Scene (2017)
- Rehab (2019)
- MMXX (EP) (2020)
- Tekkno (2022)
- "RATATATA" (2024) (collaboration with BABYMETAL)
- Tanzneid (2026)
We Got the Tropes:
- Album Title Drop: Multiple times on the TEKKNO album, such as in Spaceman ("I'm Tekkno, my religion is rave") and, of course, Tekkno Train.
- Cool Helmet: The band donned mirror-ball style helmets for the music video for "RATATATA", and usually bring the helmets out for live performances of the song.
- Cover Version:
- They made a cover of Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" (Which was already, in itself, a cover).
- They also contributed a cover of "Fire and Forgive" to Powerwolf's Communio Lupatum Cover Album.
Good luck streaming that one, though. - In 2025 they released a cover of Sum 41's "Still Waiting" wtih Frank Zummo, who had previously been a member of Sum 41note and had spent the summer on tour with EC.
- Even the Guys Want Him: In "Elevator Operator", about the titular man, before the singer catches himself:I wanna be like him
I really wanna be like him
I wanna be with him
Forget about that - Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: In the tour vlogs, every so often the subtitles will remark that they have no idea what someone is talking about either.
- Fake Shemp: In April 2025, the band announced that David Friedrich would be leaving. In the music video for "Revery", the first single released after his departure, the drums are played by someone in a black robe whose face is covered by a mask. The behind-the-scenes video eventually confirmed that Daniel Haniß was under the robe.
- Fun with Subtitles: A recurring joke in their tour vlogs is the subtitler struggling to translate their often absurd conversations, such as untranslatable German puns, otherwise commenting on the goings-on in the video, and sometimes thanking or praising himself.
- Genre Mashup: Modern metalcore, electronicore, comedy rock, EDM, and, on one memorable occasion, German Schlager.
- Guest Fighter: Frank Zummo of Sum 41 stepped in for David Friedrich during the band's appearance at Good Things Festival 2024 after David had to drop out due to illness. Zummo learned the band's entire set in only five hours and volunteered to join them for the rest of their Australian gigs (as Sum 41 had to cancel their own dates due to Deryck Whibley also being ill). After Friedrich left the band in early 2025, Zummo became their new touring drummer.
- Incoming Ham: Kevin and Nico screaming the pre-chorus to "RATATATA" is accompanied in the music video by them crashing through a wall, twice.
- Intercourse with You: "Tekkno Train" is what happens when you put a fairly straightforward sexual song through a Hurricane of Unusual Euphemisms that has to be seen to be believed.Licky, licky
Sucky, sucky
Yeah you make my lolly poppy
Candy time, go get your dinner for one - Mood Whiplash:
- "Hurrikan" starts out as a schlager song that seems deceptively straightforward. Then the chorus ends… cue heavy breakdown. In the music video, this is marked by the band going from having a good time on a boat in bad wigs to everyone getting eaten by zombies.
- "The Way You Are" starts out as a Backstreet Boys pastiche, and similarly, devolves into a brutal breakdown halfway through... then reverts back to the boy band sound, with the music video now showing the members of the band left as just disembodied heads.
- Multilingual Song: While their songs are usually fully in English, there are some notable exceptions.
- "Spaceman", featuring German rapper Finch, has the rap parts in German and Electric Callboy providing the English parts.
- "Hurrikan" starts out as a parody schlager song, complete with German lyrics, only to switch to English after the Mood Whiplash.
- "RATATATA" has some Japanese parts courtesy of BABYMETAL.
- No Animals Were Harmed: The music video for "Revery" includes several shots of a tarantula in a glass jar. The description box for the Youtube upload includes a note saying that the spider was carefully monitored and only placed in the jar for a short time to avoid harming it.
- Occidental Otaku: "MC Thunder II (Dancing Like a Ninja)" has the protagonist employing various Japanese stereotypes, from (of course) the ninja comparison to katanas and a line going "Ichi, ni, san, kawaii".
- One-Steve Limit: Averted with the two Daniels. Daniel Haniß is usually referred to by his nickname "Danskimo" to differentiate them.
- Performance Video: In contrast to their usual high-concept music videos, the video for their cover of "Still Waiting" is a compilation of clips from their concerts during the summer 2025 festival season.
- Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: A running theme through their discography.
- Singing Voice Dissonance: Kevin has a surprisingly gentle speaking voice, considering he does most of the harsh vocals in the band.
- Shout-Out:
- The Workout Fanservice video for "Pump It" references the much-parodied scene in Perfect (1985) where the leads flirt during a workout class, with Nico/Kevin flirting with the female instructor.
- "Let the Good Times Roll" is a collab with The Offspring. During the bridge after the second chorus, the song contains the lyric "Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, cinco, seis" before a breakdown; the lyric is a reference to the Offspring's song "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" as that same lyric was used before the opening verse.
- Testosterone Poisoning: Played for Laughs in "Pump It", which has the singer bragging about his workout gains and admiring his own toned body.
- There Was a Door: The video for "RATATATA" sees Kevin and Nico bursting through a wall into a conference room of office workers, and then through the walls of the karaoke room where BABYMETAL are hanging out.
- Vocal Tag Team: Kevin and Nico/Sushi. Kevin does most of the screams, while Nico (and Sushi before him) handle most of the cleans.
- Wildlife Commentary Spoof: The tour vlog
for their 2024 gigs in Nuremberg and Stuttgart is edited in the style of a nature documentary, with the narrator comparing the band members to animals and the cameraman hiding in a camouflage tent (just like a real nature documentary cameraman would).