From Mexico City comes God Destruction, and their fourth album, 'Redentor' since 2009. My first experience with GD was on the 'Terror Night Vol. 2' compilation by Insane Records, and honestly, it was not a good one. It was the A.D.R.O.N. Remix of the title track on this album, and I think I described it as "a nasty piece of business with relentless machine gunning percussion and mental ward harsh raving vocals". Perhaps that was a bit harsh, but then again, so was the track. For this band, God Destruction is not just a name, it seems to be a way of life. Their motto is "God Destruction, praising the evil since 2009," and they mean it. This is true Hellectro - harsh EBM tinged with black metal. The album opens on the title track with gothic pipe organ, but quickly turns caustic and brutal. There's a lot more going on here in the original than the remix I previously heard. Although I can't make out what the hell the scratchy-screamy vocals are saying (a lyric sheet would have been nice) or even what language they're in, the delivery gets the point across. The band creates apocalyptic atmospheres without ever losing potency in cinematic side excursions. "The Machine" is driven by a relentless beat which is sure to kick your ass all the way around the dancefloor, and then some. There are actually two harsh vocalists in this band with different shades of malice. For what they do, they work well together. I'm not sure whether "Ratzinger" is a tribute to Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger) or Wumpscut's Rudy; perhaps both in different ways. Clever, eh? A good club tune without a doubt though, especially made for heathens, heretics and hooligans. "Bullshit" offers more of the same with a different pacing. I am noticing now just how dirty and overblown God Destruction's sound is, as if they're compelled (maybe by Satan) to load up on EVERYTHING all at once. Granted, they do hold back a little on "Corpus Satani" but by then you're getting kind of numb. "Kakuma" (The Unholy Land) relies heavily on sampled dialogue and atmosphere to tell its story, but there is a fair amount of musicality to it. "Thunderthrone" begins promisingly with moaning horn and a rapacious riff, but somehow gets lost in the sauce tripping all over itself in an attempt to be epic, but comes across as more epileptic. "Exterminio" is full of organ and pounding beats but sounds more like filler than anything of substance. "Ultraviolencia" is quite a different story. A well-crafted hellectro-aggrotech number that really packs a wallop. "Rotten" is just a lot of rap-ranting over typical harsh EBM and it really left me cold. Final track before the remixes "Antevasin" begins with a series of processed guitar chords before the music, beats and vocals come in. This to me is the closest this band comes to sounding like Wumpscut, and it's actually pretty good. Low key when compared to the rest of 'Rededentor' but it does show these guys can sound quite musical when they want to. Not quite epic, but almost. The two remixes are "Redentor" by Nero Bellum of Psyclon Nine and "Ultraviolencia" (SIN D.N.A. Remix). On the former, Bellum allows for a 40-sencond scratch 'n' tap intro before steadily driving the track across the dancefloor like a Zamboni on steroids. The second remix is a stripped-down and chopped-up affair adding in a lot of sonic garbage that kind pof kills the tracks potency. Creative perhaps, but effective? Nah. 'Redentor' is kind of an uneven album in my estimation but there are still people who are going to really like it. Not quite up to the level of Hocico, but given time, this band could get there.