Mamaleek
Mamaleek is a black 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]
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] As of 2015[update] the band have released five albums, and are signed with the SF-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 black 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 black 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]
Discography
- Fever Dream (2008)
- Mamaleek (2008)
- Kurdaitcha (2011)
- He Never Spoke a Mumbling Word (The Flenser, 2014)[6]
- Via Dolorosa (The Flenser, 2015)[2]
References
- ^ "Mamaleek". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ a b c Bland, Ben (24 June 2015). "Noise Not Music #11: False, Abyssal, Pale Chalice And More". Stereoboard. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ a b c "Premiere: Black Metal Oddballs Mamaleek Score a Winner with Nothing But Loss". Noisey. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ Galil, Leor (30 May 2013). "Cheap Tunes: Frustrator's 'Anther'". Forbes. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ Galil, Leor (13 December 2011). "The Best Free Albums of 2011". Forbes. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ Krasman, Brian (24 July 2014). "Experimentalists Mamaleek poke black metal's boundaries with mysterious He Never Spoke…". Meat Mead Metal. Retrieved 3 December 2015.