a definition of crabcore
August 4th, 2009
By Deniz Rudin
Crabcore is a style of music that has briefly become, to the shame of us all, profitable. Though some crabcore has its roots in screamo and deathcore, some in suburban whiteboy rap, and some in no-talent laptop techno, all crabcore is made by very young scene kids, all crabcore combines screamed vocals with autotuned vocals, and all crabcore absolutely fails at electronic music.
Here are some crabcore bands to familiarize yourself with. It will be painful, but it is a sacrifice worth making as it is a necessary step on the way to arming yourself against these fucks:
Attack Attack!
brokeNCYDE
Dot Dot Curve
Dropping a Popped Locket
The last three “bands” are of a sub-style commonly referred to as “Screamo-Crunk,” but I’ve decided to bring all of this failure together under the umbrella of crabcore because they are all symptoms of the same sickness.
If after reviewing this information you find that you listen to crabcore: Kill yourself immediately.
If you find that you are in a crabcore band: Kill yourself immediately.
If you run a record label and you find that you have signed a crabcore band: Quit your job at once and spend the rest of your life in a monastery as penitence.
If you run a venue and you find that you have booked a crabcore band: Ditto.
If you are a music journalist or run a music magazine and you discover that you’ve given any publicity to crabcore bands that wasn’t entirely and brutally negative: Be very very ashamed.
We can fight this together, America. All it takes is a little education.
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P.S. Everybody who makes crabcore looks the same:
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Comments & Discussion
Those lil Wayne - Cannibal Corpse bastardizations truly and amazingly suck…I’ve been following this phenomenon in music for two weeks now, however I deeply respect Atrtack! Attack! for being able to ruin metal for everybody.
The emotional appeal of metal has always been that it gives you a larger than life sensation. But when it manifests under the fingers of people who can advertise the need for ye old number two just by their posture it to tally robs the music of this feeling.
Attack! Attack! continuing where Manowar left off.
Best quote about the above mentioned bands:
“At least Jimmy Urine had some dignity.”
Who said it?
me.
… why spend so much time and effort talking about it then?
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Okay, well whatever you say, it is music and it is out there, it’s not going to change anything. I’m not a fan of any of the above except Attack Attack. I don’t understand what is so wrong with their music? I don’t care what they are classifying it as, I like it & so do other people. I mean you’re allowed to say how you feel, I just don’t think people should be so rude with that, you know? Like I understand you don’t like them but the way you’re saying it is making it sound like anyone who listens to them is crazy. & That’s not true, everyone has different taste.
TOTALLY true. It smells grilled crab out here…