– April 17th, 2024 –
Italy-based electronic metal project MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR) will return to European stages in the fall for a full tour! Check the full routing below.
MASTER BOOT RECORD is helmed by technologist/producer/songwriter Victor Love (AKA Vittorio D’Amore). Founded in 2016, Love fuses heavy metal and synthesized electronic music to fabricate a sound that exists in a singular category of its own. The live shows see D’Amore taking the stage along with guitar virtuoso Edoardo Taddei on lead guitars and technical death metal drummer Giulio Galati and features stunning retro-visuals in a journey into demoscene, crack scene, and retrogaming.
Comments Love: “We are very excited to return to Europe this fall to spread the code after the great success of our previous tour! We’ll revisit many cities where we’ve already performed, as well as explore new ones, as we continue to expand our touring plans in collaboration with Doomstar Bookings. With a new album expected to release just before the tour, we will introduce a fresh setlist that includes new songs along with classics from our discography. Additionally, we plan to enhance our visual shows with more hardware, computers, cathode TVs, and a load of floppy disks to be thrown at the end of each show!“
MASTER BOOT RECORD European tour 2024
18 OCT – FR – MARSEILLE – LE MOLOTOV
19 OCT – FR – PARIS – BACKSTAGE BY THE MILL
20 OCT – FR – NANTES – LE FERRAILLEUR
22 OCT – UK – LONDON – ACADEMY 2
23 OCT – UK – MANCHESTER – SATANS HOLLOW
24 OCT – UK – GLASGOW – CATHOUSE
26 OCT – IR – DUBLIN – GRAND SOCIAL
28 OCT – UK – BRISTOL – EXCHANGE
30 OCT – NL – EINDHOVEN – EFFENAAR
31 OCT – NL – AMSTERDAM – MELKWEG
02 NOV – DE – COLOGNE – CLUB VOLTA
03 NOV – NL – LEEUWARDEN – NEUSHOORN
04 NOV – DE – HAMBURG – LOGO
06 NOV – DK – COPENHAGEN – STENGADE
07 NOV – SE – GOTHENBURG – VALAND
08 NOV – NO – OSLO – GOLDIE
09 NOV – SE – STOCKHOLM – KOLLEKTIVET LIVET
12 NOV – DE – BERLIN – GRETCHEN
13 NOV – DE – DRESDEN – CHEMIEFABRIK
14 NOV – CZ – PRAGUE – KASARNA KARLIN
15 NOV – CZ – BRNO – KABINET MUZ
16 NOV – HU – BUDAPEST – TURBINA
17 NOV – AT – VIENNA – SZENE
18 NOV – CH – MONTHEY – PONT ROUGE
19 NOV – CH – ZURICH – EXIL
Make sure to check out the brand new upload of a full live show from Winterthur in late 2023 at: youtu.be/P_FdTLIoIXw
MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s most recent studio offering, Personal Computer, was released in 2022 on Metal Blade Records. Personal Computer serves as Love’s eighth full-length album since emerging – as an 8-bit ghost – from the bulletin board system (BBS) scene in 2016. A symbolism-rich mélange of intensely ornate yet driving digital orchestrations, don’t call Personal Computer synthwave, or whatever new-fangled term is being used to describe MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s masterful videogame-like scoring. To put it simply: this is metal done with a synth.
Notes Love, “The main elements include chiptune, demoscene, and video game music, thrash/death metal and some black metal as well as classical and symphonic patterns and progressive structures. But everything is programmed and done with synthesizers.”
The result, influenced as much by classical baroque music, Bay Area thrash, and Commodore 64 games, is a frenzied mashup of what logic suggests should be disparate sounds, but in the hands of MBR, make sense, taking the listener in unexpected and always thrilling directions, smashing through genre walls.
Preview and purchase Personal Computer at: metalblade.com/masterbootrecord
“Creative, crushing and thrillingly over-the-top…” — Blabbermouth
“Victor Love has risen to the occasion as a purveyor of aggressive avant-garde chiptunes. Love’s synthesized instrumentation reveals an expressive array of classically-tinged dehumanized symphonies.” — Metal Injection
“Enigmatic, glitched-out chiptuned shredding” — MetalSucks
“The grand crescendos create excitement, and the lulls create a dire suspense…the frontiers of metal have just gotten richer… and Victor Love is leading the way with MASTER BOOT RECORD.” — The Spill Magazine
“A unique take on metal by completely digitizing it and turning it into something different, grand, epic, and pretty brutal” — Dead Rhetoric
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