{"id":20158,"date":"2023-09-21T20:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T00:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/?p=20158"},"modified":"2023-09-21T20:18:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T00:18:01","slug":"electric-callboy-in-boston-september-13-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/?p=20158","title":{"rendered":"Electric Callboy in Boston – September 13, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a rainy Wednesday night in September, there was an awful lot of buzz radiating from Causeway Street in Boston last week. Upstairs at TD Garden on September 13, a venerable ocean of boomers and classic rock eficianadoes filed inside for what was very likely to be the final send off for the Eagles as they ride off into their own tequila sunset. Downstairs at Big Night Live, however, was a bit of a different scene, and that\u2019s all thanks to the neon-powered pop-metal tapestry woven by German party-throwers Electric Callboy, Detroit\u2019s Conquer Divide, and Solence, hailing from Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conquer Divide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Packed into the intimate and critically-acclaimed club for a night of high-paced metal madness and sweat-inducing power pop, the crowd was an eclectic smattering of Gojira shirts, goth lipstick and fishnets, and at least a few dozen blonde wigs accented by bright sweatbands and those shirts that look like the carpet of an arcade – not exactly aesthetics that would make sense to commingle. As Conquer Divide took the stage, though, two united walls of sound met at the edge of the barricade, and the all-female quartet brought the beatdown from the jump. With Kia Castillo\u2019s soaring clean vocals and bassist Janel Duarte\u2019s guttural screams (that seemed to turn more than a few heads unfamiliar with the band\u2019s dynamic), the evening\u2019s first set was dark and heavy in all the right ways, and if the show was looked at in terms of a cooking recipe, the Detroit-based band certainly added the accenting heavy elements that make up one half of the main event\u2019s musical identity, while cementing the reason why they\u2019re tasked with getting things started every night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n