The album's single, "What Comes Around," also received significant airplay on MTV2 in late 2001. In support of the album's release, the band was part of the Ozzfest and Jägermeister tours in 2002. They released their debut album, Revolution Revolución, on September 18, 2001. After Rosado's return to his band Merauder, El Niño signed with Roadrunner Records in 2000, but were forced to change their name because it was already being used by another band.
It was until 1999 that they had officially formalized. The EP was entitled El Niño, when they were originally called El Niño, after the weather phenomenon. Ill Niño was founded in 1998, they had released a demo EP in that same year with Jorge Rosado on vocals. 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.Ill Niño is a six-piece metal band from New Jersey, USA 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. 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. 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. 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.
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