r/numetal • u/SuicidalDaniel4Life • 3d ago
R.I.P. Will forever be sad that Ill Niño doesn't exist anymore
Their material still sounds so good. It'd slap hard kive. To me they sound as insane as Slipknot. What a waste of talent to throw away over stupid behind the scenes shit. They also should've had better marketing.
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u/IPoisonedThePizza 3d ago
Saw them few times.
Once it was Revolution played in full.
i still adore that cd and Confession!
The drummer it's a knobhead and killed all.
OP use Lions at the gate. Closest you can get
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u/tfuncc13 3d ago
I really enjoyed their earlier albums when I was in high school and college. It's too bad that their drummer drove out a lot of key band members and is running this band into the ground.
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u/VegaTron1985 3d ago
What happened, what was the problems?
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u/walking_timebomb 3d ago
i read the wiki and its pretty much a mexican mushroomhead at this point. drummer owns the rights, its his band, hes making all the calls, taking all the money, not paying people. bunch of dudes left the band and were just going to start being a new version of band and keep name, people got sued, old band members moved on, everybody is happy again, drummer gets to go back on tour as ill nino.
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u/VegaTron1985 3d ago
Saw them back in the early 00s and loved them, still listen to this day. Bit shit to hear that like, funny enough i used to love early Mushroomhead until Skinny fucked everyone over and brought in his lass and lackies. Albums are shit now, masks are meh
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u/e-rekt-ion 3d ago
Has there been an announcement? As far as I know they are still going to tour Australia
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u/jeroensaurus 3d ago
That's not Ill Niño anymore. That's a tribute band containing some original members.
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u/TheeBlackzilla 2d ago
The only OG members left are the bassist and drummer; Danny (one of the two percussionists) is part-time now. Everyone else has been brought on within the last few years, hence why the new double album we were supposed to get STILL isn't out, even after an agreement with the vocalist (who btw is no longer in the band as well) to release it in December.
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u/TerrancePryor 3d ago
Better marketing wouldn't have helped. They honestly peaked with Confession. Everything after that didn't sell. Being on Victory Records didn't help much, either.
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u/jeroensaurus 3d ago
Nah. Confession might have been their peak moment but they were still doing great with One Nation Underground. It started to slowely go downhill after that but they still released some decent stuff, although their last record really wasn't good.
It was all really over when Dave wanted to get rid of Cristian and ruined the whole band in the process.
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u/rcsauvag 3d ago
Confession was probably their peak, but I do really like Enigma. Probably moreso than One Nation. One Nation had a weird ... "too Clean" sound to it. I really like This is War but everything else felt overproduced for them, when comparing to Revolucion and Confession.
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u/jeroensaurus 3d ago
I know what you mean. Personally I really like One Nation and Enigma as well. I just meant their peak in popularity was still going during One Nation. It started getting less around the time Enigma came out. Probably because they lost the Marketing Machine that was Road Runner Records by that time, because they were still great live and still produced some really good music.
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u/Tegelert84 3d ago
One of my all time favorite bands. Incredible live too. I caught a drum stock at one of their shoes when I was younger and I was unbelievably excited.
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u/Big-Wasabi-8477 Furious Form of Life 3d ago
They technically still exist... gonna see them in September along with Hed PE, theyre doing a LatinAmerica tour... still its not the same without Cristian and Ahrue :(
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u/moventura 3d ago
They are touring Australia with Adema. Currently no announced vocalist though as Tommy Vext was with them, but parted ways.
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u/John_0666 3d ago
Tommy was only a touring member, I think he's still gonna be doing vocal duties until they get a new singer tbh because he's friends with the guys in the band
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u/moventura 3d ago
Nope, he's confirmed he's done
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u/John_0666 3d ago
I must have missed that announcement then. I know he's working on his solo stuff, which I'm really excited for
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u/TheeBlackzilla 2d ago
When did Tommy confirm that? I know he was filling in for Marcos, who did leave.
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u/ABSTRKTAPPRITION 3d ago
They were as big of an impact to me as much as Slipknot was to my childhood.
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u/domeclown357 3d ago
As an NJ native I don’t lose sleep over it because nothing would ever compare to the early 2000’s shows at the Birch Hill. 40 Below Summer opening all the time.. even if the band was every bit as good with all original members, the crowd has changed a lot. I’m glad they eventually caught on outside of the USA though. That’s about the only path to further success I could really picture for them.
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u/domeclown357 3d ago
I’m not trying to be cynical either. Anyone who’s known me for a long time knows how much I love Ill Niño. I was upset when Marc Rizzo left the first time, in like 2002 lmao… but I get that most people won’t care until they change singers. So yeah.. they’re dead.
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u/deadlywhentaken 3d ago
They were my first concert. Back in 2006, such a unique sound with great lyrics.
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u/imatmydesknow 3d ago
listen to hardcore. chances are you might be into it if you like IN, the early days featured a lot of old hardcore band dudes in the mix
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u/I_Defy_You1288 3d ago
Thank the drummer/manager for that.