The Protomen is a band best known for composing original rock operas based on the video game series Mega Man. The group insists on wearing costumes and using code-names, even when being interviewed so
little is known about them other than the band is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Because the band often responds to interviews and questions in-character, their own descriptions of their history are delivered with the dramatic flair of their storyline concept and their comments can not always be taken at face value.
The band is composed mostly of MTSU recording program graduates, and first came to be so they could meet class deadlines and the need to record for grades. Group member Commander has said that their first album was deliberately designed to sound like “distorted pencil sharpeners about 90% of the time” and “was made specifically to go against everything our recording teachers and fellow students were trying to feed us about making everything sound pristine and ‘perfect.’.
In an interview in 2009, lead vocalist Panther stated, “We basically gathered up all of our good friends from the local rock bands of Murfreesboro, tied ourselves together, and tried to walk. And somehow it worked. At the time, we noticed a void in rock and roll. A hole that could only really be filled with grown men and women painting up like robots and playing some fierce and furious rock music based on a 1980’s video game. We were fairly certain no one else was going to fill that hole. But, by god, it’s filled now. You can thank us later.”
So check em out at www.protomen.com.
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