Having preyed upon and traumatised the world with their richly acclaimed and exceptional debut album Illuminatus two years ago, Mexican provocateurs God Destruction return with its successor Novus Ordo Seclorum. It has been a battle to bring the release to bear upon the senses, the demise of their previous label an imposing obstacle, but finally the insidious collection of dark and intensive anthems for the soul and psyche has been unleashed to the continue the impressive emergence of the band. Darker, intently more venomous, and arguably even more viciously intimidating than its predecessor, the album infests the trio’s industrial and harsh EBM sound with a black metal rapacity which infects and enflames the senses and imagination voraciously. It is another uncompromisingly thrilling and hostile proposition which without surpassing the previous release sits potently alongside its stature.
Consisting of Imperor, Charles Black, and Muteitor, the 2009 formed band as expected explores the most primal and vindictive sounds within the new release’s satanic themed tracks. The album exudes a constant pressure and gripping irritant on the senses, each song crowding the listener with ravenous and at times concussive waves of sound and ideation which exhaust as they spark ears and imagination into willing submission. It is a mighty and riveting encounter but one which suffers from a meandering and at times potency defusing mix from Mario Carrasco (SIN DNA). There are certain tracks where clarity is smothered in a distorted touch which corrupts the quality of the song within though the strength of the songs always wins through.
The Juggernaut Music Group release opens with New World Order and immediately has ears wrapped in a predatory sonic provocation veined by a sample of Middle Eastern suggestiveness. The track instantly surveys the climate of the world with its initial seconds, beats a menacing incitement to the vocal suasion flirting with thoughts. Eventually the track explodes into a tsunami of electronic enticement bred in inhospitable breath, where it shows itself to suffer from the awkward mix, though maybe the warped sound and touch is intentional. Nevertheless the track continues to swarm around the senses, its melodic and sonic appetite entangled for a scorched and acidic enterprise. It is not a startling start to the album but one rigidly gripping attention and appetite which I’m Your God and especially Bellum capitalise on. The first of the pair also takes a mere second to intrigue and grab the imagination, its initial heavy emotive keys a classical lure into the waiting arms of abrasing electro caustic and punishing beats. The song proceeds to leer at and climb over emotions with its demonic intent and the equally serpentine vocals, exposing them to its treacherously seductive heart before making way for the album’s best moment. Bellum is a bordering on sadistic provocateur from the first intensive scrub of riffs and electronic scowling. Antagonistic rhythms join the corrosive mix swiftly after as the track blossoms into a twisted tempest of deranged electronics, warped guitar endeavour, and again that irrepressible erosive vocal presence which marks out the band as pleasingly as its sound. The track is scintillating, a traumatic blend of metal and industrial antipathy soaked in epic drama and climactic atmospheres.
The dangerous air and sonic swing of Disintegrator comes next, its lures as infectious and crystalline as they are caustic before making way for a cover of the Marilyn Manson track Angel With The Scabbed Wings. The encounter 
is another crawl through the psyche, the band employing the prime essences of the track’s creator and twisting them into an impervious fiendish temptation which impresses far more than expected. It is a richly appetising baiting which is matched by the following Prominent Darkness. The slow predation which marked the previous track is again the formidable gait and intent of the song, its thick toxicity an oppressive weave of electronic sultriness and emotive storming spiked with industrial unpredictability and melodic crooning. Through the despotic Destroyer with its patchwork of bad blooded invention of sound and climactic provocation, and the similarly structured Satan’s Storm, the album persists in its riveting exploration and diabolical persuasion. The latter is toxic bait for the dance floor which works as easily on feet as it does emotions, though it is soon lost in the shadow of the excellent Revolution. The track drives an industrial demanding through ears with its first gasp of sonic breath, keys and guitars rippling with primal rabidity as the vocals spill an officious rancor with every syllable. It is an exhilarating assault which only elevates it’s tempting with disorientating shards and splinters of ear bending and unpredictable ingenuity. The track is sensational and stands beside Bellum as a pinnacle.
Touched By Lvcifer rises from a minimalistic coaxing into a roaring ferocity of sound and emotional spite to sear body and soul before the demonstrative Doomsday parades its own distinct ravaging with magnetic shafts of melodic and scarring electronic beguiling. Both leave hunger greedier whilst Regresus Diaboli provides a lingering manipulation of senses and emotions with its transfixing and fascinating tide of searing sonic elegance and rhythmic grudging, all as ever lorded over by the Luciferian vocals.
Completed by the C-Lekktor Remix of Touched By Lvcifer, as well as the Esquizofrenia Viral and Satanized By Alien Vampires remixes of Regresus Diaboli, the album is another inescapable and increasingly impressive violation from God Destruction. It does have that issue with its mix but again the band has cast songs which simply corrupt and ignite for the fullest invigorating pleasure, Novus Ordo Seclorum returning the band to the frontline of corruptive ingenuity once again.
Novus Ordo Seclorum is available now via Juggernaut Music Group @ http://music.juggernautservices.com/album/novus-ordo-seclorum
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8/10
RingMaster 08/08/2014]
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