Truly inspired, Machado.Īdmittedly, the drum section on the album as a whole is as strong as ever, especially on the track “Kellogg’s, bombs and crackerjacks”, Lazaro Pina remains a solid base for the songs to build off, but his other guitar playing counterparts just do not add up. "No more war/ No more resolutions/ Solutions are drowning/ in puddles of weakness/ and it has never rained like this".
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#Ill nino enigma album cracker#
Track number five, “Compulsion of Virus and Fever” starts out with a cracker of a riff, but just seems to give up when the chorus is released.
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Plus, many songs on here simply seem to lose all steam halfway through. In every single song save for the lucky few, Machado decides to randomly sound off with an ill-placed grunt here and a tired shout there. Not only by the production values, but by the band members.Ĭhristian Machado is hardly a man who has been blessed with the most distinctive or best sounding voice in the world of rock, but he has always managed to get away with it due to the strong band behind him. “Enigma” was set back by nearly a year due to the label not paying producers, subsequent legal bust-ups and a refusal to allow it on many digital platforms, and hence it feels a half-arsed record.
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#Ill nino enigma album plus#
It is hardly at the forefront of exciting new sounds and ground-breaking bands, plus it has to be one of the worst run labels in the world. Part of the blame can actually be attributed to the bands record company at the time, Cement Shoe Records. However, elsewhere, you will really struggle to find anything else to applaud, partially because a) you have heard it all before and b) it has probably mostly been done better. “Finger painting (With the Enemy)” actually highlights a strong rhythm section quite well, while “The Alibi of Tyrants” is possibly the heaviest song Ill Nino have ever done, containing some catchy riffs and a fantastic intro. Then again, this albums strongest songs are actually those which stick to the classic Ill Nino formula-crunch guitars, strained to clean vocals, heavy influence upon added tribal drums and a nice, rumble base. At no point does it attempt to branch out into new, unfamiliar territory, but then again you could say this for all of Ill Nino’s releases to date. Perhaps the greatest crime “Enigma” commits in its full, dreary 54 minutes of run time is that it is essentially a less good, carbon copy of 2005 release “One Nation Underground”. I felt sorry for the band after reading their Wikipedia page, and decided to help them out by spending my hard earned £15 on the release, which also contained “The Undercover Sessions” for a mere £3 extra. As soon as the first video, “How Can I Live” rumbled into my eardrums, I was in love, the Spanish half-brother of KoRn refusing to release its grip on me until I heard the bands 2008 release, Enigma. I remember the day I discovered Ill Nino I was just 14 years old, sat in my IT lesson, randomly scrolling the Roadrunner site for new, interesting bands, headphones plugged in. Back then, Nu-Metal was all the rage, with bands like Slipknot, KoRn and Limp Bizkit becoming worldwide phenomena with albums such as “Iowa” and “Issues” storming the charts in their homeland and back over the other side of the pond. Ill Nino had a helping hand from one of the world’s biggest metal labels for their debut, “Revolution Revolucion” which was released on the infamous Roadrunner Records label in 2001. Numb Re-Birth Te Amo.Review Summary: An album that suffers due to poor production and a lack of new ideas Revolucion Rip Out Your Eyes Rumba Unreal What Comes Around With You How Can I Live All The Right Words Cleansing Have You Ever Felt Letting Go Lifeless.Life.
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