crabcore

Noun

crabcore (uncountable)

1. (Internet, humorous) The supposed musical genre of metalcore (especially electronicore) guitarists who adopt a low squatting pose with spread legs.
   • 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.2009 June 23, John McDonnell, “Scene and heard: Crabcore”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
   • In photos that seem straight out of an American Apparel billboard, a young woman poses in the T-shirt, which asks, “What kind of music do u listen 2?” and offers, in a matrix of small type, more than 200 underground musical styles, both real (shoegaze, crab-core) and fake (Sufjan-house, crab-gaze).2009 December 31, Ben Sisario, “When Indie-Rock Genres Outnumber the Bands”, in The New York Times, →ISSN