Language: English. Spanish (Español)
Genre: Nü-Metal, Alternative Metal
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© 2003 Roadrunner Records
Review by Allmusic.com
It's perhaps logical that this latest exercise in
combining swaying Latin rhythms and full-on heavy metal would come from
the swamps of New Jersey-certain parts of the state have long been
fertile territory for metal in its hydra-headed manifestations.
CONFESSION, Ill Nino's sophomore album, builds and improves upon the
band's integration of the two musical forms in a tour de force of
titanium-throated vocals, hairpin rhythms, and speaker-shredding
guitars.
The Latin influence manifests itself in percussive shadings and a melodicism on tracks such as "Lifeless-Life" and "Unframed" that push the band beyond stock metal riffing. The music even bears a certain lilt-not a word usually associated with the foundation-shaking bass and breakneck drumming of the genre-that sets Ill Nino apart from most of its Jersey-based contemporaries and more than a few national acts to boot. Though the combination of Hispanic culture and metal isn't new, Ill Nino certainly displays enough confidence and natural-born swagger on CONFESSION to make it seem that way.
The Latin influence manifests itself in percussive shadings and a melodicism on tracks such as "Lifeless-Life" and "Unframed" that push the band beyond stock metal riffing. The music even bears a certain lilt-not a word usually associated with the foundation-shaking bass and breakneck drumming of the genre-that sets Ill Nino apart from most of its Jersey-based contemporaries and more than a few national acts to boot. Though the combination of Hispanic culture and metal isn't new, Ill Nino certainly displays enough confidence and natural-born swagger on CONFESSION to make it seem that way.
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