BBM: How do you feel about the new album?
Cristian Machado: The new record is the best we’ve had so
far. Everything we’ve always wanted to do perhaps what we couldn’t do on our
last label. It definitely is the most aggressive intricate are most musical
record.
BBM: What made you want to make the album more aggressive?
Cristian Machado: We come a very strong metal hardcore
background you know coming up and listening to bands we heard a lot of punk
rock and metal. We are very open minded and listen to all sorts of stuff in the
band and on this record we wanted to push our limits you know on everything we’ve
been influenced by weather its Latin percussion or some guitar parts or just
straight strong heavy riffin so we just wanted to push the envelope on every
single aspect that’s makes Ill Nino
BBM: Tell me about the cover art is there a story behind
this?
Cristian Machado: The story behind the cover is a youth in Latin
America or a youth in whatever culture you may be kind of paying respect to the
loss of a loved one from an urban type situation because of really messed up
screwed up city where society and the
community in general are in chaos crime and all sorts of crazy stuff. The crime
represents the youth of the world and the way growing up in the world and
letting our kids grow up in these type of situations. In a world where people constantly
hate each other because of race or politics or whatever it may be. It pays
respect to the loss of a loved one living in a fucked up society.
BBM: What are some of the positive and negative things about
this record
Cristian Machado: The positive thing is we got to do whatever
the hell we wanted basically you know we were everywhere and he let us open are
self’s up to our inner music demons I guess if you will. We told each
individual member to outdo them self’s from the riffs to the beats to the
percussion they lyrics and melodies to heaviness. That was one of the more positive
things we picked the producer the studio and the engineer we wanted to work
with. It was really controller by us and that’s why it came out so amazing
The negative thing that went into taking the record was
always the fear of wow we are so in control of it and what if it doesn’t come
out the way we want it to. What if we fuck up and screw up that was the only
negative thing the enter time it was feeling responsible for making the best
record we could.
BBM: Yall have some great lyrics do you ever get writers
block?
Cristian Machado: Sure I’ve gotten writers block sometimes the best thing to do
is take some time to go to the beach and clear your mind do something watch a movie.
Do something that takes your mind away from constantly having to create do
something as simple as washing dishes to walking around block. Sometimes it may
last a while you may be sitting around a whole week saying what the help am I
going to write what the hell am I going to write. Sometimes it takes a few
weeks to go away the most important thing is never lose your focus never thing you’re
not creative and go crazy in your mind.
Sometimes throws you some cards
that are ruff to deal with and it has an effect
on your personality and creativity get passed it by doing stuff people
take for granted. Just talking to someone that’s a good friend can always be a
big help.
BBM: What are some words of wisdom you could give to someone
wanting to be in a band?
Cristian Machado: I would give the same words of wisdom
every time bands ask me this. Definitely make the right decisions on what
members you have in the band make sure the right members are in your band. Make
sure your on the same level lyrically with the vision of the band the sound and
theatrically. Write really good songs that true to your heart. Make sure every
band members says yes this song is great at the end of the day. A couple are
saying its not my favorite song work on it. Really focused creatively on the
same level and the rest write music that is strong to your heart and you feel
good about. That’s the best advice I could give any one.
BBM: Funniest touring moment?
Cristian Machado: One time we had a sound guy that was taking
these pills and they were going to make him go the bath room easier kind of
like laxatives. He was driving the RV
one day and sure enough he took his laxatives that day. He was probably wasted
drink a case or two of beet that day. He went to go far and sure enough he shit
his pants the bus smelled like shit from the front all the way to the back. We
went to pull the bus over in the middle of nowhere Utah or something like that
and he got out we were watching him by a little grass strip and he was taking
his pants off and trying to clean the shit off his pants and this and that but
the ironic thing is he took his shitty pants and threw them back in the bay so
every time you open that bay you smell his shit that was wrong.
BBM: How did you come up with the band name?
Cristian Machado: The name was given to us by the singer of
(can’t make out what he said) he’s a really good friend of ours. He called my
house one day it was the Bass player he wasn’t in the band at the time. We were
really good friends and he was a mutual friend as well as us where friends we
known them and he called and said I have a name for band for Dave’s band and
said those guys are all Spanish those should call themselves Ill Nino and ever
since that day the name stuck. We thank him very much for having named the band.
BBM: Most Memorable touring moment?
Cristian Machado: I would have to say as of recently playing with anthrax with Puerto
Rico and singing along the side of the stage I mean every song they where
playing all the hits stay of euphoria that day is going to stick in my head a
while I was a huge fan younger and to have played a show with them. To see them
with the original line up made me feel like I was 15 years old again.
BBM: Whats coming up in the future?
Cristian Machado: Where going to support disturb it’s a good
match up and basically do a two work small venue head lining thing. Go to Europe
and thinking about bringing static x with us.
BBM: What are the differences from touring the us to others
places in the world?
Cristian Machado: In the us the kids have a choice of what
bands to see every weekend or any national act you want to see. With Europe there
a little more restricted you have to fly out there. There’s an ocean that separates us I would
say the only difference you have a choice if you really want to g o every
weekend. In south America or japan and Australia the fans really have to wait
for the bands we have yet to go to Australia and you get constant bands saying
you have a huge fan base and have to come to Australia but obviously it’s a 24
hour plain flight the people in America have got to experience Ill Nino many times.
Also there a little livelier just because most places you go to 3rd
world countries haven’t seen a live act before.
BBM: What’s your favorite place to tour?
Cristian Machado: I love El Paso because Juarez is right
across the border I love Amsterdam by favorite as whole was japan because the
culture shock and how polite they were yet there such a dominant county and
have so much to do with world affairs and technology and economics and there
such a humble people . Still maintain power.
BBM: See any sites in Texas?
Cristian Machado: we’ve been a round Texas a bunch of times but I’ve been to
the river walk once we got to see the stree where JFK was shot in Dallas
usually on tour there’s not a lot of time that you have to spare your shown to
avenue sound check mic check do an interview play the show and you just want to
relax after we usually visit Dave’s family in Dallas that’s where we take out
time.
BBM: Any Last words?
Cristian Machado Check out our site Ill Nino.com Just hold
up San Antonio Media and support us.
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