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 ...

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, ...

In hardcore, there's something essential about listening to the music in a group of people, with everyone going batshit. The Pomona, Calif., doom-inflected hardcore quintet Xibalba seem to understand ...

California titans Xibalba have amassed a huge following thanks to the meaty metalcore on 2011's Madre Mia Gracias Por Los Dias and 2012's follow-up Hasta La Muerta. The group took a two-year break ...