Xibalba have been pretty much perpetually active since releasing Hasta La Muerte in 2012. The band recently released a video for the song “Soledad” off that album, comprised entirely of homespun live ...

The absurdly heavy death-metallic hardcore band Xibalba have just dropped Aztl á n, a four-song EP followup to 2020’s Años En Infierno. It was recorded and mixed by Taylor Young at The Pit, it’s out ...

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True story: there were some people standing outside my office window last night, not obeying social distancing rules, not wearing facemasks, and speaking really loudly to boot. Which annoyed the shit ...

Oh no, not a metal album! If you don’t enjoy the heaviest and most visceral of music, please stop reading, go listen to Hootie and the Blowfish. If the most guttural and sonically devastating metal ...

Next month, Xibalba, the absurdly heavy metallic hardcore destroyers from Los Angeles, will follow up their 2015 album Tierra Y Libertad with a new one called Años En Infierno. (The title is Spanish ...

For 13 years, Xibalba have weathered through trends of the hardcore and metal world without compromising any facet of their sound: pummelling low-end grooves, tough hardcore breakdowns (before they ...

When this Pomona, Calif.-based band sticks to the conventions and motions of both hardcore and doom, the blend can be exhilarating; at its best, this is a huge-sounding record. Take lead track, ...

Pretty much everybody who can tell their asshole from their elbow knows that Southern California is the best place on earth. But what a lot of people don’t know is that although the sunny, ...