Zakk Wylde commented on Guitar Hero during a recent interview with Live-Metal.net. A lot of people in metal use the “F” word. I spent a while in the military so I am prone to using it quite a bit, but this dude it as if it’s going out of style.
Live-Metal.net: You just mentioned Guitar Hero. What do you think about that game, in general?
Zakk: It’s amazing. I think it’s gonna inspire a whole generation of guitar players. Kids are eventually gonna just, “I’m gonna do it for real. I’m gonna pick up a real guitar and try it.” I …read more

Next in line for the Guitar Hero band line is Metallica…so it’s rumored anyway. Guitar Hero: World Tour will feature the possibility for you to download 10 songs from Death Magnetic to play along with. Seriously, I hope they shortened the songs for the gae because you’d think people would get tired from or get tired of playing those long-ass songs. Below is a 26 second trailer for Guitar Hero Metallica that is supposedly on Guitar Hero: World Tour. It’s kind of a crappy recording but it shows enough. No confirmations yet from Metallica though I think it’s quite obvious …read more

Braves Words & Bloody Knuckles announced that Microsoft and Metallica are teaming up to bring the fans the entire album of Death Magnetic to be downloadable to Guitar Hero 3 and Guitar Hero: World Tour on XBox on the date of release…but only for the XBox 360.
Whether they got a fat chunk of change for it or not, this is a cool thing for the band to do. I sincerely hope that it’s all worth the downlaod and that the album rocks. We’ll see. Here is a bit of the anouncement from Metallica’s official page and you can read even …read more

When I first saw this article at Metal Hammer I started to get excited…and then I started to worry. The Following block quotes are from Metalhammer.co.uk. You can check out the trailer for the game below.
“Obviously, most important of all are the songs and while track titles are yet to be announced, we do know that the game will feature Van Halen, The Eagles, Sublime and Linkin Park. News on top of this mentions that ‘hip-hop’ and ‘alternative’ are being used as genres so the game will be reaching out into the world of rap for the first time. As …read more