– November twenty first, 2024 –
Italy-based digital steel mission MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR) will return to US shores this Winter for a nine-date East Coast headlining tour. The journey begins on January seventeenth at Reggies in Chicago, Illinois and runs by January twenty sixth at TV Eye in Ridgewood, New York. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates under.
MASTER BOOT RECORD Stay:
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 Field – Philadelphia, PA
1/25/2025 Tremendous Magfest – Nationwide Harbor, MD
1/26/2025 TV Eye – Ridgewood, NY
Discover tickets at: mbrserver.com
Photograph by Stephanie Cabral
MASTER BOOT RECORD might be touring in assist of their HARDWAREZ full-length, launched final month through Steel Blade Data.
HARDWAREZ explores the duality of know-how. The LP, which follows 2022′s Private Pc and 2020′s Floppy Disk Overdrive, comes from the expansive thoughts of multi-instrumentalist and MBR mastermind Vittorio D’Amore (aka Victor Love), an Italian producer who emerged from the underground as an nameless mission in 2016 to create the soundtrack for the cyberpunk point-and-click journey recreation VirtuaVerse. The mission seamlessly advanced right into a standalone entity, releasing over fourteen albums in only a few years.
To create HARDWAREZ, the technologist labored by dwell streaming his desktop on YouTube whereas composing new music. Every thing is programmed through MIDI. Intensive touring augmented with dwell musicians helped Love make the choice to incorporate actual guitars to attain a large sound and enhance the improved frequency spectrum of the instrument. Moreover, the tracks characteristic sections with out overdubs and with up to date drum samples and a brand new mixing method, making a extra vibrant and punchy drum sound.
HARDWAREZ, earned the #3 spot on Billboard’s Present Digital Albums chart upon its first week of launch. Elsewhere, the report took the #11 place on the Present Laborious Music Albums chart, #17 on the High New Artists Albums chart, and extra! See further chart positions under.
USA – Billboard
#3 Present Digital Albums
#11 Present Laborious Music Albums
#17 High New Artists Albums
#26 Digital Albums
#36 Present Rock Albums
#37 Unbiased Label Albums
Canada – Billboard
#5 Dance/Digital Albums
#15 Digital Albums
#20 Laborious Music Albums
Preview and buy HARDWAREZ at: metalblade.com/masterbootrecord
“Whereas the remainder of that 2010s synthwave crew remained caught in time, D’Amore continued honing his model, crafting a synthesized arsenal of metallic components that sound extra vibrant and alive than the true factor and evolve with every album. HARDWAREZ is a end result of this course of, a report that doesn’t depend on any methods however as a substitute rides alongside pumping digital rhythms and majestic riffs (a few of them from overdubbed, actual guitars).” – Pop Issues’ Finest Steel Albums October 2024
“…essentially the most strong model of the band but.” – New HD Media
“In a mix of arpeggios and ultra-hard riffs, we’re taken on a journey full of aggressive synths and beats that simply thrash away.” – Metalized
“…one other important MBR launch so as to add to the rising pile. It’s as energetic and intoxicating as ever, and has proven that this heavier iteration of MBR is one among its greatest…” – Indignant Steel Man
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