– September twenty fourth, 2024 –
“HARDWAREZ” Full-Size Nears Launch On Steel Blade Data
Stream MASTER BOOT RECORD’s “RAM” HERE
Rome, Italy-based digital steel mission, MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR), in the present day drops their newest single, “RAM.” The gripping new monitor comes by means of the band’s HARDWAREZ full-length, set for launch on October eleventh through Steel Blade Data.
Elaborates multi-instrumentalist and MBR mastermind Vittorio D’Amore (aka Victor Love), “‘RAM’ is highly effective anthem merging the uncooked depth of traditional heavy steel with the shimmering attract of retro-futuristic synths making a sound that’s each nostalgic and groundbreaking with epic solos that includes lead synths and guitars taking part in at unison.”
Stream MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s “RAM” at THIS LOCATION.
Stream MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s beforehand launched single, “CPU,” at THIS LOCATION.
HARDWAREZ explores the duality of know-how. The LP, which follows 2022′s Private Laptop and 2020′s Floppy Disk Overdrive, comes from the expansive thoughts of 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 developed right into a standalone entity, releasing over fourteen albums in only a few years.
To create HARDWAREZ, the technologist labored by reside streaming his desktop on YouTube whereas composing new music. Every little thing is programmed through MIDI. Intensive touring augmented with reside musicians helped Love make the choice to incorporate actual guitars to realize a large sound and increase 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 strategy, making a extra vibrant and punchy drum sound.
“The idea of HARDWAREZ is by default the continuation of the idea of earlier albums, which is about spreading the phrase about retro {hardware} and software program,” says Love, who grew up taking piano classes and listening to classical music earlier than stepping into thrash and demise steel as a teen.
The album title merges the time period “{Hardware}” with “warez,” also referred to as The Scene, extra generally often called the scene of cracks and pirated software program which has been influential to Love by way of crack and keygen music. Whereas Love organically started listening to digital music, acid techno, industrial and synth pop, he additionally “grew up within the ’90s via all of the grunge, nu-metal and industrial scene.“
Previous-school steel in addition to ’80s and ’90s films and video video games – and music from these – additionally play a job in Love’s musical DNA which is manifested in HARDWAREZ. It’s his penchant for continuous inventive and technological deep dives which informs HARDWAREZ‘ cowl artwork as nicely, which not directly expresses the album’s theme. “With this album the 486DX-33MHz-64MB turns into sentient via human augmentation. For we could develop into higher people with their assist, however machines nonetheless want us to shine.”
HARDWAREZ will see launch on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following colour variants:
Exhausting Disk (US)
Laptop Terminal Inexperienced (US)
180g Black (EU)
Experience The Lightning (EU)
Collector’s Dream (EU – Ltd. 200)
Pre-order HARDWAREZ at: metalblade.com/masterbootrecord
HARDWAREZ Observe Itemizing:
01. BIOS
02. MOBO
03. CPU
04. GPU
05. RAM
06. FDD
07. HDD
08. PSU
09. CASE
MASTER BOOT RECORD – C:HARDWAREZTOUR.EXE:
9/25/2024 Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
9/26/2024 The Wayfarer – Costa Mesa, CA
9/27/2024 MagWest – San Jose, CA
10/01/2024 Star Theater – Portland, OR
10/02/2024 The Pearl – Vancouver, BC
10/03/2024 Substation – Seattle, WA
10/05/2024 Synthbangers Fest – Denver, CO
10/06/2024 Aces Excessive Saloon – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
10/08/2024 The Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ
10/09/2024 Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA
10/12/2024 Hackfest – Quebec Metropolis, QC
10/18/2024 Le Molotov – Marseille, FR
10/19/2024 Backstage By The Mill – Paris, FR
10/20/2024 Le Ferrailleur – Nantes, FR
10/22/2024 Academy 2 – London, UK
10/23/2024 Satans Hole – Manchester, UK
10/24/2024 Cathouse – Glasgow, UK
10/26/2024 Grand Social – Dublin, IR
10/28/2024 Alternate – Bristol, UK
10/30/2024 Effenaar – Eindhoven, NL
10/31/2024 Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL
11/02/2024 Membership Volta – Cologne, DE
11/03/2024 Neushoorn – Leeuwarden, NL
11/04/2024 Emblem – Hamburg, DE
11/06/2024 Stengade – Copenhagen, DK
11/07/2024 Valand – Gothenburg, SE
11/08/2024 Goldie – Oslo, NO
11/09/2024 Kollektivet Livet – Stockholm, SE
11/11/2024 Lacznick – Wroclaw, PL
11/12/2024 Gretchen – Berlin, DE
11/13/2024 Chemiefabrik – Dresden, DE
11/14/2024 Cross Membership – Prague, CZ
11/15/2024 Kabinet Muz – Brno, CZ
11/16/2024 Turbina – Budapest, HU
11/17/2024 Szene – Vienna, AT
11/18/2024 Pont Rouge – Monthey, CH
11/19/2024 Exil – Zurich, CH
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