{"id":249859,"date":"2025-10-25T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249859\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:19:09","slug":"its-finally-fcking-happening-the-protomen-reveal-release-date-for-act-iii-this-city-made-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249859\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Finally F*cking Happening: The Protomen Reveal Release Date for ‘Act III: This City Made Us’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to rock and metal releases, there are a few that took a loooooonng time to come out. Albums like Guns N\u2019 Roses\u2019 Chinese Democracy with its 15 years of production, Tool\u2019s Fear Inoculum and its 13 years since 10,000 Days came out, and the 22 fucking years it took for My Bloody Valentine to release mbv immediately come to mind. <\/p>\n

But for us super nerdy metalheads that love rock operas in the style of Styx, Queen, Iron Maiden, and even Bruce Springsteen about an iconic Capcom platformer videogame series known as Mega Man, the day has finally come.<\/p>\n

Nashville\u2019s own Protomen<\/a> have finally \u2014 FUCKING FINALLY \u2014 announced the release date to Act III: This City Made Us. The entire album will be out and in the hands of fans on January 9, 2026. Their first two full-length studio efforts were concept albums that told a canonical story titled\u00a0Act I\u00a0and\u00a0Act II: The Father of Death, which released in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Since then, fans have been anxiously awaiting\u00a0Act III\u00a0not only for new music, but to learn what happens next in the story. That means fans will have waited almost 17 years for this release.<\/p>\n

Sure, the band\u2019s put out a song here and there over the years from Act III, but a lot of their time in recent history was spent on a live album of Queen covers and a cover album full of kick ass 80s tunes. Fans in their comment sections were constantly asking about Act III, but earlier this month they dropped the date and began releasing new songs over on Soundcloud. Anyone that bought the album there has been getting new tracks every week until the album comes out. And as one of those folks I gotta say that so far this one definitely lives up to the hype.<\/p>\n

So basically, if you haven\u2019t gathered it from this post, I am fucking stoked for Act III: This City Made Us to get officially released. I\u2019m stoked for them to go on tour because their shows are electric as all get out. But mostly, I\u2019m fucking stoked because this means more people are going to know how fucking awesome The Protomen really are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to rock and metal releases, there are a few that took a loooooonng time to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-249859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}