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June 23, 2009

New Genre Alert: Crabcore... 'Boyband screamo-eurodance blend comes across like a cross between Enter Shikari and the Vengaboys'...

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Their boyband screamo-eurodance blend comes across like a cross between Enter Shikari and the Vengaboys. Certainly, their amalgam of Auto-Tuned emo vocals, synchronised headbanging, puzzlingly bad miming, haircuts that would cause even Josh from the Horrors to raise an eyebrow and chart-trance interludes is one of the most baffling things I have seen in music in a long time. Even the wistful blonde girl in the band’s Evanescence-go-rural-in-the-midwest video loses her cool near the end and has to cover her ears.

To accompany their, er, unique sound and live aesthetic, Attack Attack! have their very own genre name: crabcore. But, unlike all the other genres covered in this column, crabcore isn’t defined by sonics or BPMs or lyrical content, or tied to a geographic location. Crabcore is defined by the body contortions of the band’s guitarists when they perform. This is the lolloping crab-like stance adopted while a guitar player shreds, and it’s not dissimilar to a sumo wrestler having extreme muscle spasms while readying themselves to engage with an opponent.


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#1 Gordon says:

I hope it catches on because I just registered crabcore.com

#2 johnnyjoejoe says:

More like crapcore

#3 Kingcrab says:

Isn't crabcore great!?

Facebook group I ♥ Crabcore http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid...

#4 Rissy says:

Oh, fuck. These Attack Attack! guys are actually from my high school.


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