Intense, nerdy, horrible, life-consuming gravy.
After a mind-numbing all-nighter in the studio, “Due Vendetta” was born. It was mostly just friends that worked at WMTS (the radio station, not some kind of disease). I was new to the school, so I grabbed the only three or four people I knew that played rock ’n’ roll. It was the last two days of the semester, and I needed a band to record for our final class project. Most of us were going through this little recording program down in a town called Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and some of us, it turns out, were really good at procrastinating (i.e., me). Murfreesboro Pulse: How did The Protomen first form? Hawkins about the band’s humble beginnings at MTSU, rock operas and, of course, its members’ love of video game culture. The band has also released the first single from Act III, “This City Made Us,” and is continuing to bring its revered, electrifying live show to venues and conventions across the country. The Act II highlight “Light Up the Night” is featured in the acclaimed rhythm game Rock Band 4 alongside some of music’s biggest names. With synths, guitar riffs and choruses of epic proportions in tow, the group-which has been comprised of a variety of band members with names like Shock Magnum, Reanimator and K.I.L.R.O.Y.-is poised for a big 2016. This tale plays out on the band’s self-titled 2005 debut and 2009’s Act II: The Father of Death, with Act III currently in the works. The Protomen take that concept and set it on a dystopian backdrop, in which Wiley is a ruthless dictator and Mega Man is created to fight for the people. For the uninitiated, the Mega Man series, which debuted on the NES in 1987, focuses on the continuing battles between the protagonist and an army of evil robots created by antagonist Doctor Wiley. MTSU alums The Protomen are a progressive hard-rock band who, aside from two recent albums of covers, focus on retelling the saga of Capcom’s iconic android Mega Man through rock operas. However, what if you could limit the simplification of the narrative necessary for a visual project and instead enhance and expand on it through music? Enter The Protomen. As history shows us, video games being adapted to films, television series and any other medium, really, just don’t translate well.
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