There’s a pink-finned, double-horned mermaid in the lift. To most people, that might seem a bit strange, but not to Electric Callboy. In the video for the Germans’ single Elevator Operator, vocalists Kevin Ratajczak and Nico Sallach, both dressed in wigs and the kind of trainers your dad puts on to clean the garage, take a ride up and down a magic lift shaft, with surprises on every floor (kittens! A fire! A nightclub that looks like something out of Blade minus the blood and vampires!).
The warp-speed journey is commandeered by a mythical, moustached man dressed in a white fur coat and silver skin-tight trousers. Packed with WTF?! moments, not least ambient elevator music infiltrating a breakdown, the song is everything we’ve come to expect from the most fun band to hit the metal scene in years.
