Metropolis Callejon

• 1Metropolis04:43
• 2Gottficker03:53
• 3Blut04:17
• 4Die Krähe mit dem Schädelbauch04:27
• 5Fürchtet euch!03:33
• 6Die Fabrik04:58
• 7Der Wald04:34
• 8Herr der Fliegen03:07
• 9Misraim01:04
• 10Katakomben05:02
• 11Dies Irae03:35
• 12Gestade der Vergessenheit06:37
• Total Runtime49:50

Info for Metropolis

Die Metalcore-Band Callejon aus Düsseldorf mischt bereits seit geraumer Zeit die hiesige Szene gehörig auf. Ihre letzten vier Alben knackten allesamt die Top 10 der deutschen Charts. Vorbei sind die Zeiten, in denen sanftere- oder gar fremde Klänge den musikalischen Output der Band bestimmten. Eher säuselt der Zuhörerschaft ein Sound um die Ohren, der Fans, die unter Umständen schon etwas länger Fan der Kombo sind, aufhorchen – und in Erinnerungen an alte Zeiten schwelgen lässt.

"Dass Callejon zu überzeugen wissen, ist ja seit einigen Jahren nichts neues mehr. Die Produktion von Metropolis ist fett und man schließt auch qualitativ an den beiden letzten Alben an. Ein wenig Metalcore, Post-Hardcore und Pop, vermengt mit einem Hauch an Wandelbarkeit und zack war das neue Album geboren (so einfach war es sicher nicht) – jedoch kommt es einem so simpel vor. Sicher, ja das neunte Album strotzt nicht vor Innovationen, doch das muss es auch nicht, denn die Rezeptur der Düsseldorfer geht erneut auf und serviert einen Leckerbissen für die, die Callejon gerade deswegen mögen, weil sie so sind, wie sie sind." (time-for-metal.eu)

Callejon ist eine fünfköpfige Metalcore Band aus Düsseldorf. Anfang des Jahres fanden die Jungs mit Warner Music einen neuen musikalischen Hafen. Seit 2006 hat die Truppe bereits acht Alben veröffentlicht. Zuletzt erschien „Hartgeld im Club“. Hier hatten Callejon sich getraut, bekannte Deutschrap Songs in ihrem ganz eigenen Stil zu covern.

BastiBasti, Gesang
Bernhard Horn, Gitarre
Christoph "Kotsche" Koterzina, Gitarre
Thorsten Becker, Bass
Max "Kotze" Kotzmann, Schlagzeug

Callejon
The fact that some, having been hit by “Blitzkreuz” (“Blitzcross”) for the first time, feel reminded of RAMMSTEIN in the first moment of shock, is not so much due to the unbelievable force with which the opener of the fourth CALLEJON album impacts, but rather with the combination of hard guitars and German lyrics, which almost inevitably evokes associations with RAMMSTEIN - who, internationally speaking, are the most successful German band, after all.

But even after quickly realizing that there are few musical parallels between the two bands, it may not be so wrong to compare them to each other: CALLEJON have never before sounded as international, as big as on “Blitzkreuz”. That is due partly to the album’s mix by star producer Colin Richardson (AS I LAY DYING, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, MACHINE HEAD, SLIPKNOT, TRIVIUM...) and partly due to Grammy winner Ted Jensen, who took over the mastering and has worked with AVENGED SEVENFOLD, DEFTONES, GREEN DAY, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MASTODON, PANTERA or UNDEROATH before - really just to mention a few bands.

The fact that “Blitzkreuz” outmatches its predecessor, which had entered the charts at position 31, is mostly credited to the songs themselves. The five musicians from Düsseldorf worked on the album's eleven tracks for nearly a year, subsequently spending two months in the studio and creating songs that, after hearing them for the first time, are clearly distinguishable from each other and recognizable among thousands - a stunt, that notoriously only a few metal bands can pull off. “Wir sind allein auf weiter Flur“ (“We’re out on a limb”), CALLEJON sing in “Kojote U.G.L.Y.”, the album's second song, and those who listened to the sweeping chorus will agree. The band does not even lose their boisterous power when the songs get more electronic and spheric as on the subsequent “Meine Liebe” (“My Love”). And at the latest after the first words of the next track ("Atlantis") it becomes clear that this album will not grant us a toilet break: “Seid ihr bereit / Für dieses Lied? / Ein Lied, das euch von Feuer singt / Und euch den Atem nimmt." (“Are you ready" / For this song? / A song that sings of fire / And will take your breath away.") CALLEJON are ablaze, for three quarters of an hour, until the record ends with “Kind im Nebel" ("Child in Fog"), as epic as it began.

Something as powerful as "Blitzkreuz" does not come out of the blue. It is an album that only a band can write, which has slowly evolved in subcultural underground and still has its roots there. In the past ten years, CALLEJON have used the wood of a metal pigeonhole to build their very own cupboard out of it. And it is so spacious that it does not only enclose sweeping, dramatic choruses and riffs, sheer bursting with energy, but also, for example, the rappers of K.I.Z., Mille of Kreator and Sebastian of MADSEN - sometimes all of them in a single song, like in the, unfortunately awesome, "Porn from Spain 2".

“Willkommen in der Sackgasse" (Welcome to the dead end"), the band sings (surely joined by everyone who will ever hear this song) on "Blitzkreuz". After all, musical sound barriers can only be broken where it supposedly does not go on. CALLEJON continue their path undeterred and by that open new perspectives to modern metal. “Willkommen in der Realität" ("Welcome to reality").

This album contains no booklet.