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releases August 9, 2024
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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DLP available on Emerald Vinyl (650 units) and Emerald with Red, Black, and White Splatter Vinyl (500 units).
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Includes digital pre-order of Vida Blue.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around August 9, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$35USDor more
Cassette + Digital Album
Kindly note that orders containing pre-order items will be held util everything in the order is available to ship.
Professionally replicated cassette housed in a yellow shell.
Includes digital pre-order of Vida Blue.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Time is a slippery fish. Loss has inspired Mamaleek's latest full-length album, titled Vida Blue. This marks the San Francisco Bay Area metal deconstructionists' eighth album and their third as a full lineup.
Tragedy struck in March of 2023 when the band lost a longtime friend and member, keyboardist Eric Livingston, leaving the group, which began as a duo of two brothers and later expanded to a five-piece, now with only four members. Despite this profound loss, Mamaleek persevered, performing as a quartet at various festivals, including the 2023 edition of the Roadburn festival.
Mamaleek returned to the studio to create new material that appropriately reflects their journey through loss and honors their fallen comrade. The resulting album draws inspiration from the legacy of Oakland A's baseball legend Vida Blue, whose former team coincidentally announced its relocation to Las Vegas that same year. The band members themselves describe this poignant chapter in their own words:
“Time is a slippery fish. Maybe only someone like Vida could grasp it. Although he’s left time behind, his image and that lefty heat remain in the memories of many. Eventually they’ll be forgotten, and hopefully replaced with even more exultant ones. This musical recording is a reflection on loss and its acceptance. We explore several examples for each song, including the loss of pride, of money, of glory, of country, of sanity, of a favorite sports team, of significant others, and, every day, one’s self. It also explores various associated moods–fear, panic, reverence, stoicism, and steadfastness–to arrive at a resolution: Loss is only a test, the glue that holds and erodes each memory, the connection that binds and loosens us all, pitch by pitch, inning by inning. “This is your celebration.”
Vida Blue is a person, moment, and memory, together the crystallization of apocalypse: "unveiling," "disclosure."
Two anonymous brothers recording in San Francisco and Beirut. Mamaleek repeatedly creates some of the most intriguing, aesthetically-realized Black Metal anywhere.
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Twisting, bending contortion of supreme distortion & my favorite work from the beautiful boys.
Incredibly, I ran into Chip and Lee at a Coffee shop in PDX and they did indeed warm my frostbitten soul. Sugammadex