Shibalba are a musical project with members from Greece and Sweden that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays a mixture of meditative, ritual, Shamanic music, ambient and dark trance and this is a review of their 2018 album "Stars Al-Med Hum" which was released by Agonia Records.
Ambient style drones start off the album while all of the tracks are very long and epic in length while programmed beats are also utilized at times as well as the music serving as a soundtrack for a sexual Tantric Magick meditation and ritualistic chants are also added into certain sections of the recording.
Synths are also a very huge part of the recording while spoken word parts and whispers can also be heard at times along with some songs also bringing in elements of dark trance while guitars are also added into some parts of the music and as the album progresses more more ethnic instruments and shamanistic and Tibetan music touches are added onto the recording as well as all of the songs sounding very different from each other.
On this recording Shibalba takes meditative, ritual, Shamanic music, ambient and dark trance and mixes them together to create another ritualistic occult album, the production sounds very dark while the song themes focus on Tibetan, Shamanism, Tantra and Eastern Occultism.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Shibalba and if you are a fan of meditative, ritual, Shamanic music, ambient and dark trance, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Alignment I Fa Ra On" and "Alignment V Egi Pto". 8 out of 10.
