There’s something palpable and organic about the reasoning behind all of it and, in an odd way, it almost feels relatable, if that makes sense. I think that’s a rather novel take on the whole not-revealing-your-identity schtick, so to speak, which has been put on by many other bands, most notably though, Ghost. That character was actually designed based on some of my photos and I have also written the story, so there are elements that are inspired directly by my life experiences.’
I wanted people to focus on the music rather than myself, but it was also connected to other things such as VirtuaVerse, the videogame I was developing, whose main character’s identity is also shrouded in mystery. I’ve been going through a phase of radical changes both on an artistic level as well as a personal level, and that has influenced the approach I had with the project as well – particularly the choice to stay semi-anonymous, or rather, almost never associate my actual name to the project. ‘The way the MASTER BOOT RECORD persona shaped has to do much with my personal life experience and the events that took place right before I started this project. Now, for those of you who are familiar with the act, you might be thinking the same as me: what’s up with this eerie, mysterious, kind of dark, yet weirdly alluring avatar/persona/musical identity?
I’ve spun all MASTER BOOT RECORD releases dozens of times, as well as the Keygen Church releases, which are an alternate outlet of cyber mastermind Vittorio D’Amore. It’s definitely one of the more rewarding musical experiences I’ve had – if not for anything else, for how much I can put this music on repeat. I can’t recall precisely how I ended up caught in the magic of these tunes, but it happened and I couldn’t be happier. Over a short few years after arriving to the synth metal table, MASTER BOOT RECORD is already synonymous with that tag. You can’t really speak of synth metal without dropping MASTER BOOT RECORD in the same breath, right? It doesn’t matter what you think, you can’t.
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