Description

You could call Latin metal outfit Ill Nino a cross between Soulfly and Linkin Park, leaning a little more toward the Park. It’s a very 2005 combination, one you could consider contrived even, but there’s enough genuine and inspired moments on their third album to not write them off as wannabes, enough to even cheer them on and hope they let their inner Ill Niño out a little more next time. They’ve got hooks and tension building down just right and while they lyrically border on bland, there’s some Santana-styled breaks and the bouncing between the English and Spanish language keeping things interesting. What You Deserve is for the Linkin Park fans, This Is War for the Soulfly crowd, but more mystical, winding numbers like De la Vida and My Pleasant Torture are much richer, worth returning to, and uniquely Ill Nino. The second half of the album is definitely looser and more rewarding, with intricate songs that take repeat listens to untangle. It makes the predictable plays for the Park crowd all the more frustrating, but even the everyday cathartic music for the kids is graced by a few spicy twists along with Scrap 60’s great grit-meets-slick production. An everyday album from which you can make an excellent EP.

Track list:
1. This Is War
2. My Resurrection
3. What You Deserve
4. Turns To Gray
5. De La Vida
6. La Liberacion Of Our Awakening
7. All I Ask For
8. Corazon Of Mine
9. Everything Beautiful
10. In This Moment
11. My Pleasant Torture
12. Barely Breathing
13. Violent Saint