{"id":5550,"date":"2025-11-11T11:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:27:57","slug":"a-show-of-force-act-iii-this-city-made-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/2025\/11\/11\/a-show-of-force-act-iii-this-city-made-us\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Show Of Force&#8221; &#8211; Act III: This City Made Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Week 1 was \u201cThe Calm\u201d + \u201cHold Back The Night\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Week 2 was \u201cThe Trainyard\u201d + \u201cNo Way Back\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Week 3 was \u201cThe Storm\u201d + \u201cBuried In The Red\u201d (featuring\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bitbrigade.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bit Brigade<\/a>\u2019s own Luke Fields on bass guitar.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Week 4 was \u201cCalling Out\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Week 5 was \u201cThis City Made Us\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Week 6 was \u201cHold On (The Distance Between)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week is &#8220;The Redline&#8221; + &#8220;A Show Of Force&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pa3_episodes_10h_2000.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pa3_episodes_10h_2000-691x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5552\" style=\"width:450px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pa3_episodes_10h_2000-691x1024.jpeg 691w, https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pa3_episodes_10h_2000-203x300.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pa3_episodes_10h_2000-768x1138.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pa3_episodes_10h_2000-1037x1536.jpeg 1037w, https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pa3_episodes_10h_2000.jpeg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">illustration by John DeLucca and design by Caspar Newbolt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So <a href=\"https:\/\/super.magfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MAGFest<\/a> sold out in record time, but don\u2019t freak out if you didn\u2019t get a badge, because we\u2019re planning a little something here in Nashville for early-mid 2026 that you don\u2019t want to miss. We\u2019ll dole out more info on that as we know more details. But go ahead and clear your schedules for the entire year, because it\u2019s gonna be a big little something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in case you somehow missed all the emails and social posts prior to this 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.&nbsp;And always remember, only the physical copies of the album (CDs, Records, etc.)&nbsp;come 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And stiiiiiillllll no word on a pre-order date for Vinyl, but we\u2019re working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See you next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-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\u00a0Bit Brigade\u2019s own Luke Fields on bass guitar.)\u00a0 Week 4 was \u201cCalling Out\u201d Week 5 was \u201cThis City Made Us\u201d Week 6 was \u201cHold On (The [&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-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protomen-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","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=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}