![]() ![]() Driving around in Wetzel’s 1990 Honda Accord, the two of them talked music and favorite bands. Wetzel and Whiting quickly became friends. But he’s kind of reclusive,” Wetzel says. ![]() It really adds to this sort of mystery factor. Whiting “has a certain intensity about him. Wetzel first met him at a house party, where he watched Whiting perform in a band, where he strung multiple delay pedals together in an impressive showing. Wanting to start one himself, it was kismet when he met guitarist Andrew Whiting. At age nine, Wetzel’s mother pushed him to choose an instrument, and after a brief stint playing piano found that drums were his calling.Īs Wetzel improved, he noticed many of his peers joining bands and writing music. On his mom’s side, every member of his family played an instrument, including his classically-trained pianist grandmother, classically trained singer and voice instructor uncle as well as his mother, a multi-instrumentalist in her own right. Wetzel ran Ohio University’s music program and was an accomplished composer. On some level, it seemed like Andrew Wetzel was born to be a musician. Somebody was being an asshole and they unintentionally handed us our inside joke with our fan base, which is never gonna go away. We just ran with it, we merchandised and we broadcasted it. “I remember the day that we heard the crabcore thing, it was definitely a dig,” Wetzel says. Almost as quickly as the diss arose, the band made it into their identity. Add Whiting’s deep squat to that and thus the “crabcore” diss was born. The internet of the late 2000s was very hostile to young people daring to write heavier music while not traditionally looking like heavy metal artists. But at the time of “Stick Stickly’s” release, metal sites and YouTube commenters alike wanted to do everything possible to tear the band apart. In hindsight, it’s easy to point out the influence their songwriting would have on later genres. This, combined with the rest of the band rocking identical matching v-neck shirts and swoop haircuts became a defining moment for the scene. The music video provided the memetic language for crabcore, with guitarist Andrew Whiting leaning deep into a squat as the intensity of a breakdown overtakes him. ![]() Their biggest single at the time, “Stick Stickly” on a musical level features: black metal intro chords, sugary autotuned choruses, vague lyrics about doing things right by God, four breakdowns and a dance break. Attack Attack! was the platonic ideal of Myspace-era metalcore. ![]()
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