Ill Niño's IllMortals Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 records have been in limbo since July 2024 and show no sign of coming out soon. Former Ill Niño vocalist Marcos Leal recently posted a lengthy statement regarding the two records, alleging that he and now-former guitarist Marc Rizzo are the only two members to play on them and that there's no reason they never came out.
Now current Ill Niño guitarist Jes De Hoyos has fired back on his own social media. De Hoyos claims that pre-orders for IllMortals Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 were refunded and that Leal is only trying to get the records out there for his own personal gain. De Hoyos also seems to insinuate that Leal was actually let go from Ill Niño over some lifestyle disagreements, despite Ill Niño and Leal saying their split was amicable.
De Hoyos' statement also appears to be in response to one specific line in Leal's statement that reads: "It doesn't matter how many tik toc videos [Ill Niño guitarist Jes De Hoyos] makes telling you something different or who members are or aren't, he was not invested in to do what I did for the band, he doesn't play one riff on this record so really his voice on the matter is irrelevant and the saddest part is this situation cost friendships of over 15 years over straight up lies and incompetence, but that's neither here or there anymore."
De Hoyos' statement is as follows: "Every claim that this puto has made can be attributed to personal gain," wrote De Hoyos. "If he gave af about the fans, releasing the albums would be irrelevant because the fans that preordered the record were refunded. Na, he wants the record to be released because it would be released by a band that's bigger than anything he's ever been part of and it helps his current bands have any kind of press. He's never been an original member to any of the bands that have gained any sort of traction. This mf is a serial fill in.
"As far as why them 15 year friendships are no more, it's because he used us to leverage money out of the boss, without our consent and without us even knowing about it while putting targets on all our backs. That aside, he knew we had a brother coming out of rehab for alcoholism, just before an upcoming tour and he knew that that same brother was told that if he didn't stop drinking, he would die, in months. The rest of us agreed to do a sober run to give him a fighting chance and the mf refused to go 4 weeks without drinking to help a brother. No one said he couldn't drink when he went home, it was just while we were on tour.
"Don't let the tears of a fuckin lloron fool you. He brought this down on himself. This is how he treats people he claims are family to him. THAT is why the 'friendships of 15 years' were the cost. He's not the good, honest man, with good morals that everyone thinks he is. That's why he's no longer in the circle. If y'all only knew the shit that goes on within his own household and family..hell his own family doesn't know the shit he did on tour. Like I said before, 'I'm doing more for that mf by keeping his secrets than anyone knows'. We've got receipts too.
"For the fucking record, I did one side of the guitars (typically, two sides, left and right), you hear on 'Mascara' and the Selena cover, 'Si Una Vez', Which was embarrassing vocally. The other songs were written and tracked by Dave and the producer before I joined the band. If this mf is as good as he claims, why does he need to be associated with Ill Niño to promote them? 'Former singer of Ill Niño'."
