“Their set is a relentless stream of instrumental metal fused with retro computer game bleeps bloops and aesthetics… It‘s a hybrid of 80s power metal, thrash, and chiptune, delivered via two guitars and live drums, with a backing track filling in the synthetic layers. The guitar work is technically dazzling with tapping, sweeping, and shredding” Rock Flesh
“Clutching a keyboard and flanked by a loading screen, Master Boot Record are loaded and ready to execute. Their sound is crushing. It has an industrial sense that pummels and pounds. ’This is computer metal!‘ is the cry – the crowd are fully onboard.” At The Barrier

MASTER BOOT RECORD will be touring in support of their HARDWAREZ full-length, released in 2024 via Metal Blade Records.

HARDWAREZ explores the duality of technology. The LP, which follows 2022‘s Personal Computer and 2020‘s Floppy Disk Overdrive, comes from the expansive mind of multi-instrumentalist and MBR mastermind Vittorio D‘Amore (aka Victor Love), an Italian producer who emerged from the underground as an anonymous project in 2016 to create the soundtrack for the cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game VirtuaVerse. The project seamlessly evolved into a standalone entity, releasing over fourteen albums in just a few years.

To create HARDWAREZ, the technologist worked by live streaming his desktop on YouTube while composing new music. Everything is programmed via MIDI. Intensive touring augmented with live musicians helped Love make the decision to include real guitars to achieve a massive sound and boost the enhanced frequency spectrum of the instrument. Additionally, the tracks feature sections without overdubs and with updated drum samples and a new mixing approach, creating a more vibrant and punchy drum sound.

HARDWAREZ, earned the #3 spot on Billboard‘s Current Electronic Albums chart upon its first week of release. Elsewhere, the record took the #11 position on the Current Hard Music Albums chart, #17 on the Top New Artists Albums chart, and more! See additional chart positions below.

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