Week 4 was \u201cCalling Out\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Week 5 was \u201cThis City Made Us\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Week 6 was \u201cHold On (The Distance Between)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Week 7 was \u201cThe Redline\u201d + \u201cA Show Of Force\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week is “The Dream”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n And you know what they say… it’s always Tuesday somewhere. But seriously… using timezones as our shield, it IS still Tuesday in American Samoa. Also, I’m in Japan right now, and it’s been Wednesday for like a whole day, so nothing is real and time is a construct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking of being in Japan, I paid Capcom a visit today in Osaka… they kicked me right out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n MAGFest\/Nashville<\/strong> And in case you somehow missed all the emails and social posts prior to this 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<\/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. 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<\/a> illustration and Caspar Newbolt<\/a> design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And stiiiiiillllll no word on a pre-order date for Vinyl, but we\u2019re working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See you next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n -Commander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry for being late today, we slept in. Here’s “The Dream”… 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.) Week 4 was \u201cCalling Out\u201d Week 5 […]<\/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-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protomen-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","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=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/protomen.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pa3_episodes_12d_2000-691x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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As I said in the last newsletter\/post, MAGFest<\/a>\u00a0sold 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