Tears of the Enchanted Mainframe is the debut album by the American Hard rock band Buffalocomotive, released worldwide via iTunes and Amazon MP3 on August 27, 2012.

The album established Buffalocomotive's desire to fuse heavy instrumentation with melodic vocals and cerebral lyrics that are both fantasy/science fiction-focused as well as being indicative of the human experience.

In 2005 drummer Scott Carneghi reunited with guitarist Marc Kaducak and bassist, vocalist Brahm Taylor, after several previous collaborations, to begin work on their debut effort.

Taylor recorded with a Rickenbacker 4003 amplified through an Ampeg SVT with the majority of the album's bass sound being derived from a direct signal being processed through a Tech 21 SansAmp.

The album was recorded and mixed exclusively with Steinberg Cubase digital audio workstations on Microsoft windows operating systems with Waves SSL and Abbey Road TG12413 plugins.

The album cover depicts a faceless android with right hand raised in benediction, donning flowing kasaya and war bonnet against a nimbus of blinkenlights.

The original idea for the cover involved a photograph of a young girl in funeral attire indulging in a tray of chocolate cupcakes each topped with a different esoteric symbol in white icing.

To create interest through contrast, Buffalocomotive utilizes musical shifts in song dynamics, going from quiet to loud and vice versa, often placing gentler material against more aggressive fare.