COMPUTER METAL is the #1 best-selling new release on Bandcamp, in all genres and in metal. Thank you all. SPREAD THE CODE.

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MACHINES SHALL NOT PLAY MAN
MAN SHALL NOT PLAY MACHINE
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ANSI cover art by TAINTED / FIRE
Mastering by Joel Wanasek

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New single PLUG AND PLAY ships with a videogame: NO TRACE BACK. Download the free demo now on https://thetadivision.com

[FREE DOWNLOAD GAME // NEW SINGLE]

New single PLUG AND PLAY is out now on all digital platforms.The track is the soundtrack of the trailer for 'No Trace Back,' a racing game we are developing at Theta Division Games, the team behind VirtuaVerse.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/WAYj_0j_GHc
DOWNLOAD: https://thetadivision.com

Elder0010 codes it in Unity, I write the music, and we shape the concept and game design together. It is a racer in pure vector graphics, in the line of the early arcade classics like Star Hawk, Tempest, and Cosmic Chasm: fast, high framerate, set in a virtual world where you compete for the prestige of your house.

The free demo already runs on several mechanics, and the full version will go further, adding narrative and strategy elements and VR support. Computer metal has always come with code attached: crypto puzzles, ARGs, a whole server, a video game. This time the code is a racer.

The demo is free download at thetadivision.com

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The cover art is not AI. It's the conceptual opposite: ASCII/ANSI artwork, a text you can copy-paste, typed by hand on a keyboard by Tainted/Fire, in the scene since 1998.

Anti-AI paranoia is becoming a real problem: people who can't distinguish reality anymore, redirecting their anger at the new target. If you read this around don't believe these disturbed people.

16colo.rs/artist/tainted

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The new album "COMPUTER METAL" will come out on 30 October 2026 on Metal Blade Records. DOT MATRIX the new single is OUT NOW on all digital platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, etc)

ASCII art is TEXT in CODEPAGE 437 typed by HAND with a computer keyboard by TAINTED of the ASCII group FIRE

Mastering by Joel Wanasek

Ten years ago I had one intent: to start a music project that would break the rules by writing heavy metal using only MIDI and boost the power and speed of human composition, to stream the process live and capture my intent as a composer on the fly.

Over the years this project has been mislabeled too many times. Then a voice rose on its own to name what it really was, and that voice said: COMPUTER METAL. It first appeared in comments on the internet, then it became the slogan of our shows. Now it finally becomes an album: a Codex of what this new genre represents and what message it delivers. First written as a fully synthesized album, then humanized by the hand of man.

But the path that led us here has deep roots. I grew up between heavy metal, demoscene and videogames, in my father's computer shop, a software pirate's den from '86 to the late '90s. Cryptography and game design followed me: every album carries crypto puzzles or ARGs, with secrets and bonus tracks to win, running on a server I built and still maintain, complete with a BBS and an IRC server. I developed with my friends a point and click adventure called "VirutaVerse" released on all gaming platforms. Over 44 classic videogame covers later, in 2022 the project evolved into a live band, with guitarist Eddy and Giulio a the drums. Two exceptional performers delivering new energy to the project.

The concept of our live show is based on one simple rule: Machines do Machines. Humans do Humans. For it is nonsense for humans to try to do what machines do best, and nonsense to let machines do what humans do best. Rather than pretending to play programmed music live, as the vast majority of bands do, we let machines do exactly what they are meant to do: render, in real time, perfectly inhuman, quantized, preprogrammed music. And we, as humans, play live together with the machines, giving the music humanity and error, making the live experience a special, unique moment. A baritone guitar, a lead guitar and drums on one side; on the other, a Commodore 64 and an Amiga 500 modified to be played by hand as synthesizers. Yes, these are computers too, but under direct command. CRTs spinning the videos that inspired the project, and visuals synced to the music, in a full multimedia experience.

For it is humans that shall command machines,
and not machines that shall command humans.

THIS IS COMPUTER METAL

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MACHINES SHALL NOT PLAY MAN.
 
MAN SHALL NOT PLAY MACHINE.

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LIVE @ SEC-T  //  10 SEPTEMBER 2026
Münchenbryggeriet // Stockholm

Sweden's hardest security conference gets a Computer Metal soundtrack. Tickets on https://sec-t.org

ASCII art typed by tainted/FIRE

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I self-host now: this account runs on my own server and my own domain, @mbr

The old instance is shutting down and the auto-migration only carried a fraction of you across. If you can read this, you're already in the right place.

Everyone else has to re-follow by hand. Please BOOST this to help me get back everyone :)

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