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Black Tribe – Martial Industrial Metal

When I put on Martial Industrial Metal for the first time, I immediately guessed the band was German – and I’m not talking about the accent. There’s something about the martial industrial aesthetic that’s inherently Nazi, no insult meant. Black Tribe is a band which is interesting in its total lack of visual presentation or promotion. The only trace I could find of them is their Bandcamp, whose color-code is white. Just white. There’s nothing but dates to differentiate the releases, which can be an annoyance given the speed at which they come out. Seriously, there have been eleven of them in the past seven months, I can’t keep up with that (Note: They put out 2 records by the time I got around to writing this). While a lot of them are one-off songs, Black Tribe does have a couple of longer records, including Martial Industrial Metal. Once you get past the two-song intro, Black Tribe shows you who they really are. It’s not the most abrasive album I’ve ever gotten into, and there’