Italy-based electronic metal project Master Boot Record (MBR) will make its way to North American soil in May 2024 for a rare ten-date run of live performances!
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.
Love comments: “The live sound of Master Boot Record is the result of combining synth guitars and chiptune leads from studio albums written by myself via MIDI with live performed guitars playing in sync with them. This is especially challenging for lead guitar parts that aren’t written according to natural guitar playing positions. By combining synthesizers and real instruments — baritone guitar, lead guitar and drums — the live show of MBR is a different experience from the studio albums that are instead 100% synthesized”.
The Master Boot Record live journey will commence on May 2nd at Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn, New York and close on May 12th in Cambridge, Massachusetts. See all confirmed dates below.
Watch a Master Boot Record live video from Helsinki below.
North American Tour Dates 2024:
5/02/2024 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY
5/03/2024 The Stone Church – Brattleboro, VT
5/04/2024 Le Foufounes Electriques – Montreal, QC
5/05/2024 Hard Luck – Toronto, ON
5/07/2024 Ace Of Cups – Columbus, OH
5/08/2024 Portal – Louisville, KY
5/09/2024 Reggies – Chicago, IL
5/10/2024 Westside Bowl (Downstairs) – Youngstown, OH
5/11/2024 Milk Boy – Philadelphia, PA
5/12/2024 Middle East (Upstairs) – Cambridge, MA
Get tickets here.
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 video game-like scoring. To put it simply: this is metal done with a synth.
Preview and purchase “Personal Computer” here.
Weblinks:
www.facebook.com/masterbootrecordmusic
twitter.com/masterbootrec
