Wargasm opened the night for us. While people were still filling the arena, lead singers Sam Matlock and Milkie Way energetically started the show and never stopped jumping around. There even was a moshpit, which almost never happens right form the start. For me, it was a first to see them live and it was a pleasant surprise. With the slogan ‘Angry music for sad people’, they did describe what their music sounds like. Angry, but not violent. It sounded uplifting and serious. Their electro-punk / nu-metal devoured everybody that came in early and was ready for the party. The party started right from the first note, and Wargasm left us hyped for Bury Tomorrow and Electric Callboy that were about to come.

The show started with a funny warning, that basically said that all hell would break lose during the next 45 minutes. Help would be there afterwards. Then a alarm sounded and Bury Tomorrow started the notes of their first song.
When lead singer Daniel Winter-Bates says you have to spin around, you spin around. When he says to mosh, you mosh. Bury Tomorrow got us running around right form the start. Their melodic metalcore is catchy and solid with clean vocals by Tom Prendergast and screams by Daniel. Starting off with Choke, they already had an energetic start. They brought songs from various albums like The Seventh Sun, Black Flame and Cannibal. Mostly featured was their latest album Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience, that came out on May 16th this year. From that album we got to hear Let go, Villain Ark and What if I Burn.

Besides their awesome melodic metalcore music, I always love the respect that Bury Tomorrow is showing for everybody. Daniel took a few minutes to tell us we all matter. No matter what our beliefs, colour or gender identity is. That’s a message that I fully agree with and support. So thank you Bury Tomorrow, for spreading the love.

Electric Callboy always has a killer show, and the bigger they get, the bigger their show gets. This time, they had 3 big crosses or X’s at their ceiling. The ones they also use as their logo. These crosses would shoot fireworks and steam, and had led lights on either side so they could show you any colour you could think of. They started off with Tanzneid, their new single that released on Halloween this year. Their tour is also called the “Tanzneid tour”, so that was expected. What was unexpected however, was the rest of the show. Following up Tanzneid was their cover of Sum 41‘s Still Waiting. Their sound was amazing and if the previous song didn’t get you moving, this one did. The guitars are deep and solid, the drums pounding and the vocals both clean (Nico Sallach) and screaming (Kevin Ratajczak). This al creates for one of the best covers I’ve heard.

With Tekkno Train, Hypa Hypa, MC Thunder, Neon and Pump It, we got blasted with a load of their hits. They all sounded incredible, and they came with their share of outfit changes. Tekkno Train involved the band in overalls and a white t-shirt. Hypa Hypa showed the band in neon lights and crazy wigs and clothes. For MC Thunder and Neon, they stayed in those clothes and when Pump It hit, they ripped those clothes off and got into fitness gear. One of them, their pants even landed in the crowd. They had to ask it back though, as they needed it for other shows that were still to come.

Then the chaos came. For a good part of the show they would only play parts of songs instead of the whole song. That gave the feeling that everything needed to be happening quick. What followed was schlager part of Hurrikan, then they left the best bit out and it turned into Electric Bassboy. The part where guitarist Pascal Schillo turns their metal performance into a full on rave. I’m not quite sure what to think of that. I came for the techno and dance influences, but now it seemed like those weren’t just influences any more. It seems like the metal community has lost Electric Callboy. For the next 15 minutes, we heard metal songs, but in dj covers. Like for example; the lyrics of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit but not with electric guitars, but with techno music in the background. Or All the Small Things by Blink-182; the same lyrics, but dance music behind it. Yeah we could sing along, and it was fun for a few minutes, but it took too long for me and I kinda lost my interest from that point.

That was followed by Revery, Electric Callboy’s new song that released in May this year. Followed by Hate/Love and the most serious song of this night: Mindreader. Mindreader goes hard. A lot of heavy guitars and guttural screams, which is what I needed after that rave. I just got back into the show, when they announced that they were a band for 15 years and played some older stuff. Cool, amazing, if they would have played the full song instead of little snippets again. I do have an attention span that lasts longer than a minute you know. We got really cool parts of songs from Monsieur Moustache vs. Clitcat, Muffin Purper-Gurk, We Are the Mess and Crystals.

While everybody was watching drummer Frank Zummo’s solo on stage, people in the balcony could see a piano being rolled into the crowd. Then a guitar and then lead singers Kevin and Nico and guitarist Daniel Haniß followed. What followed was a beautiful acoustic set of their song Fuckboi and their cover of Everytime We Touch. But of course, not the whole song and again only a part of it. Why? I would have loved to hear the whole thing. The band stated that they love to be close to the fans and that’s why they loved to play, literally, close to the fans. Which I appreciate. It’s not that easy to stay close to your fans when you’re getting bigger, so that was very nice. Thank you Electric Callboy.

Back with the whole songs again with MC Thunder II and new song Elevator Operator, released in January this year. It rocked hard and got everybody dancing once again. After that, it was time for the encore, which included RATATATA, a song that they made together with Babymetal, Spaceman, which is one of my all time favourite EC songs and the closer of course had to be We Got the Moves where they shined in their updated outfits for the song. One more time, everybody went crazy and sang along with the words and the melody, long after the band was gone from the stage.