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 think it’s fuckin’ great. You never know, you might get the next fuckin’ Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Jimi Hendrix or Dimebag popping out of there. It’s like, “Yeah, I used to play Guitar Hero and that’s when I decided I wanted to be a guitar player.” So yeah, I think it’s fuckin’ brilliant. Fuck, half these fuckin’ kids wouldn’t know who these fuckin’ bands are if they wouldn’t have picked that thing up. They wouldn’t know who Jimmy Page is or fuckin’ Tony Iommi — all these brilliant, amazing guitar players — unless they picked that thing up.

Now that he has said that, let me talk about Zakk Wylde and Guitar Hero: World Tour. Guitar Hero: World Tour sucks. A handful of good songs and nothing more. You get to unlock Zakk Wylde and then you can use him to play Linkin Park and all sorts of crap that you could never imagine Zakk Wylde playing. At the end of every song he does this stupid dropping of the guitar, takes a knee, does a hail Mary thing and punches the floor…every-song! It becomes quite annoying. Guitar Hero: World Tour is geared toward everyone else besides metal fans. It was designed to sell to a broader buyer than the first 4 (including Rock The 80’s). I certainly hope Guitar Hero Metallica is much better.

The interview also goes on to talk about a Black Label Best Of. People on Blabbermouth spout off ignorant things about “No Ballads, just metal”. Some of Black Label’s ballads are black labels best songs. I said it before that ballads are metal. Not in the way that they are heavy, but in a way that even the hardest metal fan can appreciate a good ballad in the mix of 12 heavy hitting songs.

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Lars Ulrich said he can’t wait for Guitar Hero: World Tour and it can only make him a better drummer! (ok, well he really didn’t say that…but maybe.)

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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 more infor at BW&BK:

“Death Magnetic,” the entire album, available for Guitar Hero too! It’s a first in both music and gaming . . . the same day that “Death Magnetic” hits the streets, you’ll be able to download every song from the album for Guitar Hero III! We are so psyched that we’ll be the first out of the gate with this simultaneous release . . . who knows, maybe a few years from now this will be the norm when your favorite band’s new record comes out.

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“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 you would expect, this game will also feature more tracks than ever before.”

I mean, I like some Van Halen, some Eagles and a lot of Sublime…but mixing in the Linkin Park and Hip Hop? I guess they are trying to reach out to a bigger crowd perhaps and be more competitive with Rock Band and you can’t blame them.

“As well as this exciting news, there’s also the confirmation that this game will also feature a wireless drum kit and microphone for vocals. All of these different instruments will feature a career mode and, for the first time, you will be able to play a bass guitar career mode.”

Online play will also include you being able to put together your own band (guitar, vocals, bass and drums) and take part in a ‘Battle Of The Bands’ against people from all over the world.

Regardless of what I think right now of what they are saying about Guitar Hero: World Tour, there is no doubt that it’s probably going to kick ass. No release date has been set but they are thinking that it may come out the last quarter of the year.

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