Ruins Of Xibalba – Gobeklitepe Review

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Ruins Of Xibalba is a Dark Ambient/Folk solo artist originally from Australia. And the brainchild of Dark Ambient/Dungeon Synth act Tir. December 30th 2021, saw the Ruins of Xibalba independently release his debut studio album “Gobeklitepe.”

Ruins Of Xibalba, Gobeklitepe Review: This review will evaluate every aspect of the single, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this single is worth adding to your collection.

The First Three Sins, The Summary

The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: All electric instrumentals are omitted and replaced with an instrumental ambience and a mixture of dark ambient and dark synth environment. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves an instrumental environment with additional female/male chants/spoken passages (pushed in the background). The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of ritualism (trance-like) beats/patterns.

The Fourth Sin, Overall Discussion

Immediately before hitting that play button, I suggest headphones for this piece, turning off all modern devices, finding that right moment and drifting away with this ambient soundscape that captures the mood and feel of the concept.

So hit that play button and unwind, embrace the music; as soon as the listener presses that button, one is welcome to the opening track Sirius, where one is welcome to a dark synth/dreamscape atmosphere – that takes the listener on a remarkable journey. Explores the first known thematic remains of humankind – Gobekli Tepe – a Neolithic archaeological site in South-eastern Anatolia, Turkey.
Following suit with the second track, Reverie, and the seven remaining pieces, where the music creates this soundscape/atmosphere piece, which is interwoven together perfectly.

Thus creating an altogether piece that’s charming/smoothing (relaxing at times), beautiful/tranquil, epic, dark (spacey) trance-like, ominous/mysterious, dark droning/melancholy mood/feeling. Female/male chants/spoken passages, shamanic/ ritualism atmosphere (soundscape) that channels the celestial plane, and so much more. Each composition is used at the right moment and depending on the needs of the individual song while capturing the influencing of ambient, dark ambient and dark synth genres.

Simultaneously, the album creates this captivation and remarkable entertaining and theatrically release, delivering a fantastic epic piece that embraces spirituality and ancient ruin feeling/atmosphere while channelling elements/influences of ambient, electronic music, darkwave, dungeon synth, and much more —topped off with extraordinary devilmanship and compositions.

Bektas, who carries out all the recording, mixing and mastering processes of the album, attempts to bring the deep traces of this ancient history to us here in modern times. Using his unique musical intuition, which has been heavily influenced through his extensive research into the mysteries of our past.
The album comes to an end with the last song, Reverie ~ Yetzer Remix Version. We want to give a shoutout to Ruins Of Xibalba for letting us review his Gobeklitepe album. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.

The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia

Is that for us, The whole concept, the arrangement, and the compositions – a solid ambient score that one can feel the spirituality and ancient ruin channelling through the music and oneself?

Ruins Of Xibalba - Gobeklitepe Review

The Sixth Sin, The Artwork

Having a solid album, the album artwork gives that extra strength of showing part of the Ancient Structure/Temple – it has this spiritual and ruined look and feel.

The Seventh Sin, Disrelish

There is nothing to dislike in the musical offerings of Ruins Of Xibalba, and his album Gobeklitepe. Thus, we conclude our review of Ruins Of Xibalba, and his album Gobeklitepe. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your time in reading this article, and I encourage you to explore the work of Ruins Of Xibalba, and his album Gobeklitepe.

The Hymns

01. Sirius
02. Reverie
03. Pedestal
04. The Flame in the Temple
05. Prophecy
06. Shaman of the Welkin
07. Göbeklitepe
08. Eternal
09. Reverie ~ Yetzer Remix Version

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