Let’s keep this train rolling…

Week 1 was “The Calm” + “Hold Back The Night”

Week 2 was “The Trainyard” + “No Way Back”

Week 3 was “The Storm” + “Buried In The Red” (featuring Bit Brigade‘s own Luke Fields on bass guitar.) 

This week is “Calling Out”

In case you somehow missed the announcement mailer/news post and are wondering what this is all about, Act III: This City Made Us is now in the CD and Digital pre-order phase on Bandcamp and we’re releasing one to two songs a week (every Monday or Tuesday) until they’re all out in the world. And if you’re worried about the math, don’t freak out, the first one landed on a Friday and the second one landed on the following Tuesday, but from here on out they’ll land on Mondays or Tuesdays (they’ve all been Tuesdays so far, but we swear Mondays are still in the running). We said 2025, and when we said 2025, we meant 2025. And always remember, only the physical copies of the album (CDs, Records, etc.) come with the libretto/booklet that have all of the fleshed out story and incredible John DeLucca illustration and Caspar Newbolt design.

And still no word on a pre-order date for Vinyl, but we’re working on it.

See you next week!

-Commander

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Week 1 was “The Calm” + “Hold Back The Night”

Week 2 was “The Trainyard” + “No Way Back”

This week is “The Storm” + “Buried In The Red” (both featuring Luke Fields on bass guitar from Oscar winning band, Bit Brigade.) 

In case you somehow missed the last mailer/news post and are wondering what this is all about, Act III: This City Made Us is now in the CD and Digital pre-order phase on Bandcamp and we’re releasing one to two songs a week (every Monday or Tuesday) until they’re all out in the world. And if you’re worried about the math, don’t freak out, the first one landed on a Friday and the second one landed on the following Tuesday, but from here on out they’ll land on Mondays or Tuesdays. We said 2025, and when we said 2025, we meant 2025. And always remember, only the physical copies of the album (CDs, Records, etc.) come with the libretto/booklet that have all of the fleshed out story and incredible John DeLucca illustration and Caspar Newbolt design.

And before you ask, we still don’t have a pre-order date for Vinyl yet, but we’re working on it.

See you next week!

-Commander

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Now.

Just to prove it… here’s the cover. Once again, John DeLucca and Caspar Newbolt have made magic. We can’t wait for you to see the rest of it. 

PRE-ORDER ON BANDCAMP
So, you know how we’re always like “Hey, it’s Bandcamp Friday and you should go buy stuff from your favorite independent bands because the platform doesn’t take a percentage this day and they’d really appreciate it!”?  Well, guess what.  It’s Bandcamp Friday and we’re that band today.

What’s special this time? Well, as you saw above, Act III is here and you can pre-order it on CD.  I’d say that’s pretty special.  Don’t want the CD?  That’s fine, you can just pre-order the digital album instead, but remember that the digital-only album doesn’t come with the story booklet/libretto + the amazing John DeLucca artwork. HOWEVER, if you get the CD, it comes with a digital download as well, so you get all the goods.  If you don’t want the CD for some reason, gift that thing or sell it on an Ebay or in a back alley after you’ve read the book!  Pretty neat. 

Now, here’s where it gets really fun. We didn’t want to go the traditional pre-order route. Instead of making you wait (even longer) until the official release date, we’re going to unleash this story on the world episodically with a track (or 2) each week. It’s sort of like that Alien show you’ve been watching… but with sound only. And less aliens, but maybe more robots. But how do you get the new songs every week, you’re wondering?  Just refresh the Bandcamp app once a week and they’ll appear. That’s all.  Don’t worry, we’ll send an email (and post on the socials) to remind you when there are new songs (usually on Monday/Tuesday).  You know, in case you’re so busy waiting on the second season of that Alien show that you forget about us!

Now you’re wondering about the Vinyl release, aren’t you? Well we don’t quite know about that one yet due to replication times, and we don’t want to start a pre-order and have you waiting on it till the end of time. So we’ll announce those the moment we know a for-sure “it’ll be in our hands” date. 

GET TO BANDCAMP HERE!

Keep an eye on our socials (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) and mailing list for more info as it comes in. On top of that, we’ll be doing live streams from time to time on Twitch talking about stuff, so follow us on there and come hang with us sometime!

See you out there,

-Commander

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