{"id":5528,"date":"2025-10-28T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:06:12","slug":"act-iii-this-city-made-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/act-iii-this-city-made-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Act III &#8211; &#8220;This City Made Us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Week 1 was \u201cThe Calm\u201d + \u201cHold Back The Night\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 2 was \u201cThe Trainyard\u201d + \u201cNo Way Back\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 3 was \u201cThe Storm\u201d + \u201cBuried In The Red\u201d (featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/bitbrigade.net\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"bitbrigade.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bit Brigade<\/a>\u2019s own Luke Fields on bass guitar.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 4 was \u201cCalling Out\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week is \u201cThis City Made Us\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalsucks.net\/2025\/10\/27\/exclusive-premiere-the-protomen-light-up-the-night-with-this-city-made-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Metal Sucks gave the eagle eye\u2019d of you an early look at the new \u201cThis City Made Us\u201d yesterday<\/a>, but now it\u2019s everyone else\u2019s turn.\u00a0And here&#8217;s the rad new <a href=\"http:\/\/johndelucca.com\/\">John DeLucca<\/a> art (<a href=\"http:\/\/versionindustries.com\/\">Caspar Newbolt<\/a> on design). Huge thank you to them for nailing what we&#8217;re going for with this whole thing. If you dig it, let them know you appreciate their work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pa3_episodes_8s_2000_for-website.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pa3_episodes_8s_2000_for-website-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5529\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pa3_episodes_8s_2000_for-website-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pa3_episodes_8s_2000_for-website-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pa3_episodes_8s_2000_for-website-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pa3_episodes_8s_2000_for-website-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pa3_episodes_8s_2000_for-website.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you somehow missed the last few mailers + news posts and are wondering what this is all about, <a href=\"https:\/\/theprotomen.bandcamp.com\/album\/act-iii-this-city-made-us\">Act III: This City Made Us is now in the CD and Digital pre-order phase on Bandcamp<\/a> and we\u2019re releasing one to two songs a week (every Monday or Tuesday) until they\u2019re all out in the world. And if you\u2019re worried about the math, don\u2019t freak out, the first one landed on a Friday and the second one landed on the following Tuesday, but from here on out they\u2019ll land on Mondays or Tuesdays (they\u2019ve 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.\u00a0And always remember, only the physical copies of the album (CDs, Records, etc.)\u00a0come with the libretto\/booklet that have all of the fleshed out story and incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/johndelucca.com\/\">John DeLucca<\/a> illustration and <a href=\"http:\/\/versionindustries.com\/\">Caspar Newbolt<\/a> design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also posted a w\/lyrics track on youtube for <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z2Wh3hq2EPQ?si=8gRUdaP_7DzJUnhU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Calling Out&#8221;<\/a> and then another for <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OwqQD1sF-yo?si=Js5v0a-sjuiT_kre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;This City Made Us.&#8221;<\/a> Go check them out and do the like and subscribe thing on there, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And still no word on a pre-order date for Vinyl, but we\u2019re working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See you next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Commander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 1 was \u201cThe Calm\u201d + \u201cHold Back The Night\u201d Week 2 was \u201cThe Trainyard\u201d + \u201cNo Way Back\u201d Week 3 was \u201cThe Storm\u201d + \u201cBuried In The Red\u201d (featuring Bit Brigade\u2019s own Luke Fields on bass guitar.)\u00a0 Week 4 was \u201cCalling Out\u201d This week is \u201cThis City Made Us\u201d Metal Sucks gave the eagle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protomen-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}