{{short description|American rock band}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Mamaleek | image = | caption = Mamaleek Live in 2016 | landscape = yes | image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> 200 | origin = [[San Francisco, CA ]], U.S. | genre = {{flatlist| * [[Black metal]] * [[jazz metal]] * [[Electronic music|electronic]] * [[noise rock]] }} | years_active = 2008–present | label = [[Enemies List.]], [[The Flenser]] | past_members = Eric Alan Livingston | website = {{URL|https://mamaleek.bandcamp.com/}} | current_members = * 4 (anonymous) }} '''Mamaleek''' is an American [[Avant-garde metal|experimental metal]] group from [[San Francisco]], founded in 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mamaleek/3540273985|title=Mamaleek|work=[[Encyclopaedia Metallum]]|accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref> by two anonymous brothers.<ref name=bland>{{cite web|url=http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/192321/9|title=Noise Not Music #11: False, Abyssal, Pale Chalice And More|last=Bland|first=Ben|date=24 June 2015|publisher=Stereoboard|accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref> The name supposedly derives from [[Arabic]], and is the plural of [[mamluk]], or "slave".<ref name=noisey1>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/mamaleek-stream-2015/|title=Premiere: Black Metal Oddballs Mamaleek Score a Winner with ''Nothing But Loss''|publisher=[[Vice (magazine)#Website|Noisey]]|access-date=3 December 2015}}</ref>
In 2011, the band was signed with Enemies List; that year, their album ''Kurdaitcha'' topped Leor Galil's "Best Free Albums of 2011" list.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/leorgalil/2013/05/30/cheap-tunes-frustrators-anther/|date=30 May 2013|title=Cheap Tunes: Frustrator's 'Anther'|last=Galil|first=Leor|work=[[Forbes]]|accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref> The band has released nine albums, and are signed with the San Francisco-based alternative label [[The Flenser]].<ref name=noisey1/>
Regarding the band's style and genre, [[Vice (magazine)#Website|''Noisey'']] wrote: "It's [[black metal]], but then again, it isn't; there are massive [[Electronic music|electronic]], [[jazz]], and [[psychedelic music|psychedelic]] influences, as well as pronounced Middle Eastern inclinations in melody and aesthetic".<ref name=noisey1/> According to ''Stereoboard'', they "are a band like no other....Portishead playing lo-fi metal might be somewhere vaguely near the mark".<ref name=bland/> 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".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/leorgalil/2011/12/13/the-best-free-albums-of-2011/|date=13 December 2011|title=The Best Free Albums of 2011|last=Galil|first=Leor|work=[[Forbes]]|accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref>
Band member Eric Alan Livingston died on March 6, 2023, at the age of 38.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Monroe |first1=Jazz |last2=Strauss |first2=Matthew |title=Mamaleek’s Eric Alan Livingston Dies at 38 |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/mamaleek-eric-alan-livingston-dies-at-38 |website=Pitchfork |access-date=7 March 2023}}</ref>
==Discography== ===Albums=== *''Mamaleek'' (February 11, 2008), self-released *''Fever Dream'' (November 2008), Furusiyya Recordings *''Kurdaitcha'' (March 15, 2011), Flenser Records *''Via Dolorosa'' (May 26, 2015), Flenser Records<ref name=bland/> *''Out of Time'', Flenser Records (August 31, 2018), Flenser Records<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mamaleek.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-time|title=Out of Time, by Mamaleek|website=Mamaleek|access-date=2018-08-31}}</ref> *''Come & See'' (March 27, 2020), Flenser Records *''Diner Coffee'' (September 30, 2022), Flenser Records *''Vida Blue'' (August 9, 2024), Flenser Records
===EPs=== *''He Never Spoke A Mumblin’ Word'' – EP (July 22, 2014), Flenser Records<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meatmeadmetal.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/experimentalists-mamaleek-poke-black-metals-boundaries-with-mysterious-he-never-spoke/|title=Experimentalists Mamaleek poke black metal’s boundaries with mysterious ''He Never Spoke…''|last=Krasman|first=Brian|date=24 July 2014|publisher=Meat Mead Metal|accessdate=12 May 2015}}</ref> *''Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words'' – EP (December 1, 2023), Flenser Records
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==External links== *{{official website| http://mamaleek.bandcamp.com/}} * {{discogs artist|Mamaleek}}
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