If a band wanted to make a song and accompanying video that makes Brokencyde look as banal as a Mark Ronson cover of Paulo Nutini, then Ohio's Attack Attack! have certainly succeeded with their single, Stick Stickly.

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.

If you've already stumbled across Attack Attack!, you've probably gone through several cycles. You begin by hating everything about them. Then you cackle in disbelief, and finally you grow to love them (ironically). I've already gone through three-and-a-half cycles just while writing this.

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.

So is this whole thing just kids having fun or a carefully planned ploy to gain as much attention as possible by offending as many people as they can? If you listen to Attack Attack!'s earlier material, you'll notice it is decidedly less ridiculous. Their song Stick Stickly is well over a year old, and they have another accompanying video that is a lot less, er, intense. But if you look at their video tour diaries, you'll notice they are soundtracked by stuff like Basshunter, so maybe they just have very, very poor taste. Regardless of what you think, there is already a Last.fm crabcore group, with fans planning to start their own bands. Stick Stickly, it seems, is only the beginning.