The Industrial Twilight: MASTER BOOT RECORD

Friday, January 11, 2019

MASTER BOOT RECORD - "VIRUS.DOS" [2018]

Artist: MASTER BOOT RECORD

Title: VIRUS.DOS

Genre: 8bit Metal, Chiptune

Country: Italy

Release date: 2018

Track List:

V-SIGN
SKYNET
WALKER
ELVIRA
VIRDEM
MARS
CRASH

"I am a 486DX-33MHz-64MB processing avant-garde chiptune, synthesized heavy metal & classical symphonic music. 100% Synthesized, 100% Dehumanized"

In all seriousness, Master Boot Record is a project of Victor Love from the well-known industrial glam rock band Dope Stars Inc. The idea of claiming that a computer itself has made all of the music as if it is sentient is not new (and in fact, modern neural networks are entirely capable of writing music), nor is the idea of 8bit metal (we all know of Machinae Supremacy), yet this is a very interesting project based on the cyberpunk themes and the nostalgia for the 90s DOS demoscene.

<a href="https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/virus-dos">VIRUS.DOS by MASTER BOOT RECORD</a>

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I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

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