The opening squall of programmed glitches may cause shoulders to tense up in all but the world's six breakcore fans, careening Meshuggah riffs take over, swinging recklessly from brutal death/grind to bass-thwacking jazz interludes somewhere between Cephalic Carnage and the Dillinger Escape Plan, with only awkward Shai Hulud-style metallic hardcore whispering falling awkwardly flat like the Dropkick Murphys on an Orange Order march.Forever keeping you just off-balance, but never becoming unpalatable, technically proficient without losing that raw nastiness, 'Betwin' might not stray from its overmined reference points, but Moldova's Abnormyndeffect nail it with a raw intensity that comes from having to fill out a visa application with every border you cross and a tightly honed precision that comes from hard work. It's been posited that bands who start out fighting just to achieve those modest everyband dreams of a gig, some recorded music and a badly designed t-shirt, make better music. When you hold 'Betwin' up by its dowdy cover against the soulless guitar school meandering of much technical metal, it's perhaps not as accomplished or as complicated or as obviously the product of a grade-something-certificate-in-somethingorother, but it's certainly more meaningful.
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