"I know what Ill do. Ive made my choice and Ill make my stand. I may not be the hero they need, but, God, I can still be a man."
The Protomen are an American rock band that composes and performs science fiction rock opera concept albums inspired by pop culture including films and video games. The band was formed in 2003 and is based out of Nashville, Tennessee. They first gained exposure with their 2005 self-titled debut rock opera album The Protomen. The act is one of the most renowned in the video game music and geek rock
"Light up the night. There is a city that this darkness cant hide. There are the embers of a fire thats gone out but I can still feel the heat on my skin and this mess were in, well, you and I. Maybe you and I. We can light up the night."
"We live in complicated times, with a handful of opportunists who think they can take everything for the benefit of a select few. This is where I hope our story ends differently than the one depicted on these albums: we have to take the fight to the streets so they dont find us singing "we are the dead" in the near future."
"This is just a band that’s odd enough to be interesting whether you like their music or not."
"The world was missing the kind of rocknroll that was at once able to destroy and rebuild[.] [...] We found that if we got enough people together on one stage and covered them in silver paint and gave them enough amplifiers, we could fill that hole to the death."
"We get asked [about Mega Man] a lot. And it wasnt so much that we were drawn to it, it was just always there. It was something we grew up with and continued to love well past the age when we were expected to throw our Nintendos in the trash and get real jobs. The music is stellar. The story is classic. So really, the framework was there, and we just kind of took it a bit further."
"Hed set his skillful hands to the task of creating a device to bring about a change, to create a machine to bring freedom, to create a man to save the world. Twelve years Light worked and on a cold night in the year 200X, Protoman was born. A perfect man, an unbeatable machine, hell-bent on destroying every evil standing between man and freedom, built for one purpose, to destroy Wilys army of evil robots. Ready, willing, prepared to fight."