– November 21st, 2024 –
Italy-based electronic metal project MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR) will return to US shores this Winter for a nine-date East Coast headlining tour. The journey begins on January 17th at Reggies in Chicago, Illinois and runs through January 26th at TV Eye in Ridgewood, New York. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.
MASTER BOOT RECORD Live:
1/17/2025 Reggies – Chicago, IL
1/18/2025 Mahall’s – Lakewood, OH
1/19/2025 Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
1/21/2025 Garrison – Toronto, ON
1/22/2025 Les Foufones Electriques – Montreal, QC
1/23/2025 Sonia – Cambridge, MA
1/24/2025 Underground Arts/Black Box – Philadelphia, PA
1/25/2025 Super Magfest – National Harbor, MD
1/26/2025 TV Eye – Ridgewood, NY
Find tickets at: mbrserver.com
Photo by Stephanie Cabral
MASTER BOOT RECORD will be touring in support of their HARDWAREZ full-length, released last month 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.
USA – Billboard
#3 Current Electronic Albums
#11 Current Hard Music Albums
#17 Top New Artists Albums
#26 Digital Albums
#36 Current Rock Albums
#37 Independent Label Albums
Canada – Billboard
#5 Dance/Electronic Albums
#15 Digital Albums
#20 Hard Music Albums
Preview and purchase HARDWAREZ at: metalblade.com/masterbootrecord
“While the rest of that 2010s synthwave crew remained stuck in time, D’Amore continued honing his style, crafting a synthesized arsenal of metallic elements that sound more vibrant and alive than the real thing and evolve with each album. HARDWAREZ is a culmination of this process, a record that doesn’t rely on any tricks but instead rides along pumping electronic rhythms and majestic riffs (some of them from overdubbed, real guitars).” – Pop Matters’ Best Metal Albums October 2024
“…the most robust version of the band yet.” – New HD Media
“In a blend of arpeggios and ultra-hard riffs, we are taken on a journey filled with aggressive synths and beats that just thrash away.” – Metalized
“…another essential MBR release to add to the growing pile. It’s as energetic and intoxicating as ever, and has shown that this heavier iteration of MBR is one of its best…” – Angry Metal Guy
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