Agila is often considered to be their breakthrough album. Published in 1996, a year after its preceding album, Pedrá, it featured instruments that had not appeared before on any of Extremoduro's albums. It includes some of the most famous songs by the band: "So payaso", "Buscando una luna", "Prometeo", "Sucede" and "El día de la bestia", which was included on the movie of the same name soundtrack.
Alberto "Capi" Gil – drums except on #04, 05, 09, 13
Additional personnel
Iñaki "Uoho" Antón – guitars except on 06, 07, 09, 10, 13; bass on #04, 07, 09; keyboards on #01, 05, 10; piano on #04; hammond organ on #11; percussion on #02, 03, 08, 11, 14
Rolling Stone magazine referred to it as a masterpiece of the Spanish rock.[8]
In 2007 it was ranked by American magazine Al Borde as the 227th best Ibero-American album of all time,[9] being a relative low position because at the time of the album's release the band was still unknown to Latin America.[10]
In 2012 was ranked as the 12th best album of the Spanish rock according to Rolling Stone.[11]
The track "So payaso" was ranked as the 103rd best song of the rock en español ever by the magazine Al borde,[12] in addition to winning the award for best music video of the Spanish Music Awards in 1997.[13] Likewise, it was included as DLC in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock[broken anchor].[14]
^Menéndez Flores, Javier (23 May 2013). Extremoduro. De profundis. La historia autorizada (in Spanish). p. 210. ISBN9788425350337. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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