Italy's MASTER BOOT RECORD are out on the road across Europe and the UK in support of Computer Metal, the new album that arrived on October 30 via Metal Blade Records. The run is a co-headlining package with fellow Italians FULCI, the horror-obsessed death metal outfit named after gore director Lucio Fulci, with arottenbit opening. It kicked off in Lyon on November 5 and wraps up in Aarau, Switzerland, on December 12 — 33 shows in all.
After the four opening dates in France and Spain, the tour hits Paris tomorrow, November 10, then crosses to the UK and Ireland before working its way through the Benelux, Germany, Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltics, and down through Central Europe. Tickets are available through the band's own site, mbrserver.com.
Computer Metal is the 16th MASTER BOOT RECORD album since the project launched in 2016 and the follow-up to 2024's Hardwarez. Mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Vittorio D'Amore wrote it via MIDI in Cubase with the computer as the main instrument, then brought in guitars for the human feel a synth can't fake — palm muting being the obvious example. Stylistically the record lurches from hardcore and thrash to progressive, death, symphonic and industrial metal. Unusually for D'Amore, who has written most of his records live on stream, this one was composed offline, which he describes as a more meditative process.
The concept is "sensory memory": every one of the ten titles is a piece of hardware or a command from the early PC era, from "DOT MATRIX" and "TURBO BUTTON" to "VOODOO2", "CRT" and "CTRL + ALT + DEL". The label stresses that every note and every character of the ASCII-style artwork was made by hand, with no generated content.
We covered the album announcement in September and the "PLUG AND PLAY" video in October; that clip doubles as the trailer for No Trace Back, a vector-graphics racing game D'Amore is developing with Theta Division Games, whose free demo is already out.
MASTER BOOT RECORD + FULCI, Europe/UK tour 2026 (support: arottenbit)
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 5 | Lyon (FR) | Ô Totem Live |
| Nov 6 | Marseille (FR) | Le Dodu |
| Nov 7 | Barcelona (ES) | Sala Razzmatazz 3 |
| Nov 8 | Toulouse (FR) | Le Rex |
| Nov 10 | Paris (FR) | La Machine du Moulin Rouge |
| Nov 11 | London (UK) | The Underworld |
| Nov 12 | Sheffield (UK) | Corporation |
| Nov 13 | Dublin (IE) | The Academy |
| Nov 14 | Glasgow (UK) | SLAY |
| Nov 15 | Leeds (UK) | Brudenell Social Club |
| Nov 17 | Brussels (BE) | Botanique |
| Nov 18 | Amsterdam (NL) | Melkweg |
| Nov 19 | Nijmegen (NL) | Doornroosje |
| Nov 20 | Cologne (DE) | Gebäude 9 |
| Nov 21 | Hamburg (DE) | Logo |
| Nov 22 | Copenhagen (DK) | Pumpehuset |
| Nov 24 | Gothenburg (SE) | Monument |
| Nov 25 | Oslo (NO) | John Dee |
| Nov 26 | Stockholm (SE) | Kollektivet Livet |
| Nov 28 | Tampere (FI) | Venue TBA |
| Nov 29 | Helsinki (FI) | Tavastia |
| Dec 1 | Tallinn (EE) | Rockclub Tapper |
| Dec 2 | Riga (LV) | Melna Piektdiena |
| Dec 3 | Warsaw (PL) | Hydrozagadka |
| Dec 4 | Berlin (DE) | SO36 |
| Dec 5 | Prague (CZ) | Futurum |
| Dec 6 | Munich (DE) | Backstage |
| Dec 7 | Vienna (AT) | Szene |
| Dec 8 | Budapest (HU) | A38 |
| Dec 9 | Bratislava (SK) | Randal Club |
| Dec 10 | Ljubljana (SI) | Orto Bar |
| Dec 11 | Lindau (DE) | Club Vaudeville |
| Dec 12 | Aarau (CH) | KIFF |
Tickets: mbrserver.com
Order "Computer Metal": Metal Blade Records
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