According to Wikipedia, we are the greatest punk band the universe has ever heard and we keep it real.
Zabaleen is the only and most rockin' garbage-punk band this pathetic universe has to offer (but that's not saying much). Our many line-up changes are key in keeping up our trashy sound!
Dead Cops was written by Zero Tolerance Task Force (R.I.P., literally).
So, about us: The name Zabaleen is arabic which translates into english as trash collectors. It's ironic that this label can be placed on the worlds poorest people, as well as the worlds richest.
The Zabaleen of Cairo live in the south-eastern Manshiet Nasr district of the city. The community of about 25-27,000 Zabaleen are cramped into a thin sliver of land between the eastern autostrada and the Muqattam hills, which they have occupied for just over thirty years. As squatters with no legal claim to the land on which their domiciles are built, their position looks further undermined by the presence of the Egyptian military on the crest of the Muqattam ridge, who occasionally take to detonating dynamite during religious festivals and whose extensive and sophisticated surveillance equipment, whether trained upon the Zabaleen or not, is a constant reminder that this is a community under threat. Not only are the Zabaleen squatters, engaged in the task of "street-sweeping" (collecting refuse being a government monopoly), recycling up to half of the daily 6,000 tons of solid waste produced by Cairenes every day, they are also Orthodox Copts.
The Zabaleen of the United States live all around, buying worthless shit they feel is part of their survival.
The Zabaleen of Chico, California are the finest DEAD COP PUNK ROCK trash-punk band found anywhere in the world. We also play weddings and graduations (if one of us isn't in Mexico, Africa, North Carolina, too busy,at a lame party or injuring themselves while riding their bicycle drunk).
