Salt Lake City, UT.

It was Friday October 3rd when we left good ol' Southern Ca

lifornia heading northeast towards Utah to play a show. The drive and all the bullshit before the drive was not making us all very happy dudes. Before we left, we went to a small Enterprise in South Pomona to rent a stable vehicle to get us up to SLC. It wasn't very cheap to say the least, but we had no choice, we HAD to get up to Utah to play

 this show that was booked for us 2 months prior by my good friend Clint. Shit didn't seem to be going our way, we had a Vegas show being worked on for the day after SLC but that fell through, and our bass player with the only reliable car, decides to rank out on us (literally) 3 days before the show. So we had to rent a car, and recruit our good friend Mike Sogoff to fill in on bass for the weekend. And because of our current financial situations as individuals, this was a big kick in the dick for us. We were all in pissy moods (me especially), the drive sucked, and we were tired and worn out from our long ass work week. We get to our friends parents house (in some small city just outside of SLC) about 6am in the morning. And right when we got there, we all crashed out til about 3pm. We left to go to the 

show about 4pm and found the place, and just walked around downtown Salt Lake. The show started, and there was a grip of kids there (which surprisingly stood for the whole show) we're not used to that shit in Cali. Anyways, we were stoked on seeing xReflectx they were really good, and did a sweet ass cover of 108's "Deathbed." We also got to see Collapse (who were awsome) and City to City (who were also awsome). To be honest, I knew going in that Salt Lake loved there heavy hardcore, but for some reason, we thought we were just going to get a lifeless reaction from the kids. Fuck!, were we wrong, as soon as we started the first open A note, kids start moving side to side and smashing each others faces, literally all hell broke loose. Kids singing along to our songs and i remember looking around at everyone in the band and thinking "what the fuck?." Needless to say after our set, we were on cloud 9, every little bullshit problem that we had to deal with before the show, we didn't give a shit about anymore. All we could talk about on our shitty drive back home was how good the show was. To this day, there hasn't been a show to rival the mayhem that went down that cold October night in Salt Lake City, UT.

2012 Demo

This is our demo we recorded in late 2006 at Earth Capital Studios in Los Angeles with Alex Estrada. It is titled "12.2012." The demo sounds a little rushed and rough, but thats mainly because we rushed everything, and if the guitars sound out of tune, thats because they probably were, our other guitarist (at the time) didnt know how to tune after songs, or even  knew the songs well for that matter, so yea. But, hopefully you like it. Here it is.

Xibalba 

12.2012

Live on KSPC

Almost a year ago, back in April of '08 we were asked by a good friend of ours (Troy) to play a live set on his radio show, entitled Taboo, which mostly played hardcore, punk, noise, grind, all sorts of punk influenced music. The station was located on the Claremont Colleges campus. We had never done anything like this, and we were stoked. So we get to this place, and they take us to the studio which is downstairs, pretty much under ground about 3 levels. and it was pretty gnarly. the studio was just like i had pictured it looking like, tons of old ass posters, and shit all over the walls. So, we start to set up and we could already start to tell that we were getting on the staffs nerves with our cursing, and our politically incorrect lingo(that's just the way we talk). It's not like we were trying to piss them off, that's just what happens when you have 5 excited/anxious hispanics inside of a radio studio. But we made some of them smile, and laugh at our shinanagains. So they must not have hated us too much. So back to the set, the sound check was a disaster, we could kind of tell that the dude doing the sound and levels didn't know what the fuck he was doing, luckily it didn't sound so bad, or he was about to see us get ignorant his white ass! ha. We start to play, apparently we went off air for about 30 seconds in the middle of our first song, we didn't know it, but that's what was said to me the next day at work from my boss. Anyways, typical Xibalba fashion, we must tune our guitars after ever song, and in-between the songs, Troy would play some really erie/evil ambient noises from some dark ambience band (i wish i remember what they were called). After the set, Troy did an interview with us that was pretty fun and interesting, with us being a bunch of knuckleheads saying we were going on tour with Slipknot. Then after the interview we just chilled in the studio and listening to Troy's show, he even let us pick some music, and let me intro the first 2 songs off "Jane Doe." Overall it was a great and fun experience, one we will probably never get to experiene again. Here is the link to download the set from that night, i will try and get a copy of the interview portion of the show.

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Bio

A'ight, so it all started in 2007 when Lil Bryan, Nate, and myself(bigbrian) always wanted to start just a really heavy, low-tuned, Disembodied-like band. We talked about it, and later jammed with our friend Jason on the drums, Lil B on the Bass, Nate singing, Greg on guitar, and myself on guitar. We had written 2 songs the first practice, and then we needed to come up with a name.

We had trouble thinking of something good and evil. we started looking up different Aztec gods, and but we all weren't of Mexican descent Nate, Greg and myself were, but Lil Bryan's family was from Nicaragua, and Jason's family was from El Salvador. So we figured, that south Mexico and Central America was all Mayan so we thought it would be a good idea of making a Mayan name for the band. Our friend Scott stumbled on Xibalba, which translates to "place of fear." That was where the diseased and condemned souls went after death. And we thought that was eviller then shit, so we used that.

After a few months of writing songs, we played or first show at Showcase Theatre in Corona, Ca. and later record a 6 song demo at Earth Capital Studios with our good friend Alex.

Place.of.Fear:

Nate Rebolledo - Voice
Brian Ortiz - Guitar
Jason Brunez - Drums
Bryan Valdivia - Bass

New

I am really new to this blogging shit. and to be honest, i am not really into it, but i need something to post some news and shit in, so i chose this because myspace sucks, and there is to much shit going on that fuck shit. so yea, sorry if i curse so god damn much. anyways, enjoy and welcome to the xibalba blog site.

bigbrian