MASTER BOOT RECORD releases new album, ‘FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE’, today worldwide; ‘FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE’ now available for purchase online
Today (March 20th), MASTER BOOT RECORD has released his Metal Blade Records debut, FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE. To purchase and stream the album, please visit: http://metalblade.com/masterbootrecord
where FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE is available in the following formats:
– digisleeve-CD
– clear vinyl (US exclusive – limited to 500 copies)
– black w/ white edge marbled vinyl (US webstore exclusive – limited to 200 copies)
– silver burn vinyl (Bandcamp exclusive – limited to 300 copies)
– 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)
– white vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 200 copies)
– carbon burn marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 200 copies)
– deep red / black marbled vinyl (EU webshop exclusive – limited to 100 copies) * exclusive bundles with shirts, plus digital options are also available!
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There are few truly unique musical artists, but the music made
by MBR
arguably exists in a category of its own. « The
main elements include chiptune, demoscene & video game music,
thrash/death metal and some black metal as well as classical and symphonic patterns
and progressive structures, » explains sole progenitor and
mastermind MBR.
« But everything is
programmed and done with synthesizers. » The result,
influenced as much by classical baroque music, bay area thrash metal, 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. FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE track-listing 1. ANSI.SYS 2. EDIT.COM 3. FDISK.EXE 4. DISPLAY.SYS 5. CHKDSK.EXE 6. DEFRAG.EXE 7. RAMDRIVE.SYS 8. DBLSPACE.EXE 9. SMARTDRV.EXE 10. DISKCOPY.COM 11. EMM386.EXE 12. HIMEM.SYS FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE sees MBR sound evolve again, embracing all of the elements fans have come to expect from the project, but taking a step forward. MBR comments: « This album has got some new elements such as the synthesized clean guitars sounds which adds that early thrash metal feel – as well as some baroque atmosphere – but the album still features my trademark sound mixing chiptune, classical and metal music. » Remaining prolific – and 100% synthetic – MBR works with an audience. « I have a very fast workflow due to the fact everything is MIDI. Also, most of the time, I stream live while composing. A good amount of my stuff after the second album until now has been composed live, as well as many of the cover songs. I stream my DAW desktop while chatting on my IRC. Also I handle every aspect of making the record, including the artwork. » Having previously been involved in multiple projects – most of which were focused on mixing metal and electronic music – he first began working on what would become MBR four years ago. « It was around April 2016 when I started to work on the point & click adventure Virtuaverse, a video game I am doing with my friends Valenberg and Elder0010. While writing that soundtrack, I tried some heavier sounds and especially this floppy disk drive sounding guitar sound, and that’s how MBR first originated. » Prolifically creative, once he had all of these elements in place, he would go on to release four albums in three weeks, dropping them on Bandcamp on the fly, at the same time churning out cover versions of themes from video games he loved growing up. In the three years since, seven more albums followed, each one building on the last, forever refining the MBR sound. The project’s name was inspired by the title of its first release. « I stumbled on a command line text that is on the cover art of my first album ‘FIXMBR.’ and at a point it says, ‘Are you sure you want to write a new MBR?’ And pretty much that was how I felt at that moment. I needed to restart from scratch for a new project with a new sound. » |