℗ 2022 MASTER BOOT RECORD Issued Under License to Metal Blade Records
| Released | May 13, 2022 |
| Duration | 1h 04m 19s |
| Record Label | Metal Blade Records |
| Catalogue No. | 195252 |
| Genre | Metal (Industrial) |
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8086
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5:04 | |||
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80186
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8:53 | |||
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80286
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5:46 | |||
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80386
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6:30 | |||
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80386SX
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6:28 | |||
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80486
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5:08 | |||
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80486DX
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4:32 | |||
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1.8
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80486SX
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7:13 | |||
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1.9
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80586
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7:16 | |||
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1.10
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80686
MASTER BOOT RECORD |
7:29 |
Italy-based electronic metal maven Master Boot Record (MBR) recrudesces on striking new full-length album, PERSONAL COMPUTER. Helmed solely by technologist/songwriter Victor Love, Master Boot Record is, if anything, creatively prolific. The follow-up to FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE (2020), Personal Computer is Love's eighth full-length album since emerging - as an 8-bit ghost - from the bulletin board system (BBS) scene in 2016. Now, he's returned (like a carriage) to right-click on devotees with yet another easter egg and symbolism-rich mélange of intensely ornate yet driving digital orchestrations. Just 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.
"I live stream from my desktop," says Love, who composes Master Boot Record songs on his YouTube channel. "When I have enough material to bundle an album together, I finish it off and prepare it for release. So, it's a continuous songwriting process. My approach is familiar to me and my audience, and I really enjoy working in an interactive environment. As far as what I listen to, it's the same stuff as always - from classical music (especially Beethoven and Bach) and thrash/death metal to chiptune music and crack intro/keygen music. I also listen to retro game music. So, in a way, the starting point is still the same. I've been growing musically."
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Metal Blade Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.02 -0.02 to -0.02 | -10.04 -11.46 to -9.14 | -7.67 -8.80 to -6.80 | 5 4 to 6 | |
| 1 | 8086 | -0.02 | -9.46 | -7.1 | 4 |
| 2 | 80186 | -0.02 | -10.34 | -7.9 | 5 |
| 3 | 80286 | -0.02 | -9.45 | -7.3 | 4 |
| 4 | 80386 | -0.02 | -10.55 | -8.3 | 5 |
| 5 | 80386SX | -0.02 | -9.14 | -6.8 | 4 |
| 6 | 80486 | -0.02 | -11.35 | -8.7 | 6 |
| 7 | 80486DX | -0.02 | -9.63 | -7.3 | 5 |
| 8 | 80486SX | -0.02 | -9.38 | -7.0 | 5 |
| 9 | 80586 | -0.02 | -9.63 | -7.5 | 5 |
| 10 | 80686 | -0.02 | -11.46 | -8.8 | 6 |