Mamaleek

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Mamaleek
Origin San Francisco, CA , U.S.
Genres
Years active2008–present
Labels Enemies List., The Flenser
Members
  • 4 (anonymous)
Past membersEric Alan Livingston
Website mamaleek.bandcamp.com

Mamaleek is an American experimental metal group from San Francisco, founded in 2008 [1] by two anonymous brothers. [2] The name supposedly derives from Arabic, and is the plural of mamluk, or "slave". [3]

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In 2011, the band was signed with Enemies List; that year, their album Kurdaitcha topped Leor Galil's "Best Free Albums of 2011" list. [4] The band has released nine albums, and are signed with the San Francisco-based alternative label The Flenser. [3]

Regarding the band's style and genre, Noisey wrote: "It's black metal, but then again, it isn't; there are massive electronic, jazz, and psychedelic influences, as well as pronounced Middle Eastern inclinations in melody and aesthetic". [3] According to Stereoboard, they "are a band like no other....Portishead playing lo-fi metal might be somewhere vaguely near the mark". [2] Galil said they "mix Middle Eastern song structures and samples, atonal experimental and avant-garde accents, guttural metal howls, accessible electronic breakbeats, sludgy doom metal guitar-work, nimble piano interludes, and plenty of pop panache to create an unrelenting, moving sound". [5]

Band member Eric Alan Livingston died on March 6, 2023, at the age of 38. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mamaleek". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Bland, Ben (June 24, 2015). "Noise Not Music #11: False, Abyssal, Pale Chalice And More". Stereoboard. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Premiere: Black Metal Oddballs Mamaleek Score a Winner with Nothing But Loss". Noisey . Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ Galil, Leor (May 30, 2013). "Cheap Tunes: Frustrator's 'Anther'". Forbes . Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  5. ↑ Galil, Leor (December 13, 2011). "The Best Free Albums of 2011". Forbes . Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  6. ↑ Monroe, Jazz; Strauss, Matthew. "Mamaleek's Eric Alan Livingston Dies at 38". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
  7. ↑ Krasman, Brian (July 24, 2014). "Experimentalists Mamaleek poke black metal's boundaries with mysterious He Never Spoke…". Meat Mead Metal. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Out of Time, by Mamaleek". Mamaleek. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
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