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Metallica is Determined to Make Guitar Hero Wii Suck

Eric J — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:24:30 +0000

Metallica has issued an update regarding the missing Death Magnetic songs from the Wii version of Guitar Hero. I hope Hitler doesn’t hear about this.

Metallica states:

“If you’ve been playing Guitar Hero on the Wii, you may have noticed that we were short a few songs when it came to ‘Death Magnetic’ – well no more! Our friends at Guitar Hero have been working long and hard with Nintendo so that Wii fans can now play the eight ‘Death Magnetic’ songs not previously available for that gaming system.

“Starting November 24, additional tracks from ‘Death Magnetic’ will be available as downloadable singles for 200 Wii points each. If you’re keeping score, that would be ‘All Nightmare Long’, ‘That Was Just Your Life’, ‘The Day That Never Comes’, ‘The Judas Kiss’, ‘The End Of The Line’, ‘The Unforgiven III’, ‘Suicide & Redemption J.H.’ and ‘Suicide & Redemption K.H.’ Enjoy!”

Thank you, Nintendo. I hope your consoles start randomly exploding in retaliation to having this crap played through them.

[image: Newscom/UPI/Michael Bush]

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Headbang Hero. So Stupid It’s Actually Funny

Scott — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:09:42 +0000

For those that don’t want to play guitar and also have no desire to pretend to play guitar but still want to rock out on a video game to metal music, then Headbang Hero just might be what you’re looking for. The only complaint I have is they use Survivor’s Eye Of The Tiger in this demo. Slightly head-bangable at first but not a metal song and not something I would get caught headbanging to.

Of course with stupid articles saying that headbanging causes neck and brain damage, this “toy” would probably not get approved for sale for safety reasons. But you do have to laugh at the concept. I’m still not 100% sure that they are serious about this or if it’s just for fun. I just wish they would pick better songs to use. C’mon, Freak On A Leash? For more information about this check out Headbanghero.com.

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Warbeast Full Size Replica For Guitar Hero

Scott — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:18:20 +0000

I’m trying to not go overboard with reporting too much about Guitar Hero, but this was too cool not to post. This has actually been out for a few months now. A B.C. Rich authorized Warbeast full size replica for use on Guitar Hero and Rock Band. B.C. Rich always has some of the coolest (or ugliest, depending on your taste) guitars on the market. The most “Metal” looking guitars anyway. The B.C. Rich Warlock is a classic metal guitar and The Beast is probably the most “Br00tal” looking guitar. Both very uncomfortable to play in my opinion and from my experience you have to shell out a fat wad of cash to get an American made B.C. Rich in order to get a good sound out of it. Either that or drop in better pick-ups because their stock pickups are garbage.

Anyway, this thing goes for $89.99 on Amazon.com and as far as I can tell is only made for the Playstation 3.

Image: Amazon.com

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Guitar Hero: Metallica Complete Set List

Scott — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:00:27 +0000

Via Metallica.com, here is the complete set list for Guitar Hero: Metallica. I think they did a pretty good job putting together the set-list for the Metallica songs. Minimal St. Anger and Death Magnetic tracks make it well worth while. Most of it is Black Album and prior. Some of the other band songs are songs that they have covered, so that’s cool too. Guitar Hero: Metallica drops on March 29th. Check it out.

Metallica Tracks

All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls

Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

Other Artists

Alice In Chains – No Excuses
Bob Seger – Turn The Page
Corrosion of Conformity – Albatross
Diamond Head – Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters – Stacked Actors
Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
Kyuss – Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesdays Gone
Machine Head – Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon – Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate – Evil
Michael Schenker Group – Armed and Ready
Motorhead – Ace of Spades
Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain – Mother of Mercy
Slayer – War Ensemble
Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
Suicidal Tendencies – War Inside My Head
System of a Down – Toxicity
The Sword – Black River
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town

Check out the announcement at Metallica.com for more information and previews of the game.

Don’t forget, if you preorder, you get the extra foot pedal and splitter free.

Image: Gamestop.com

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Preorder Guitar Hero Metallica, Get A Free Foot Pedal.

Scott — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:14:35 +0000

Gamestop is offering a free “bonus” foot pedal if you pre-order Guitar Hero: Metallica, which is set for a U.S. release on March 29th. The reason for the pedal? You get to play double bass on GH: Metallica. You also get a splitter so you can plug both pedals in to the drum kit.

I can honestly say that I’m looking forward to this, seeing that Guitar Hero: World Tour really sucks without being able to download new songs for it. World Tour was a real let down for me because the song selection really sucks. The new features are great, but the songs suck…for a hard rock/metal fan.

You can get the pedal by pre-ordering your copy with either delivery or in-store pick up. Should be interesting…

Pre-order yours while supplies last.

Image: Gamestop.com

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Slayer Content On Upcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica

Scott — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:33:45 +0000

Apparently there will be some Slayer content on Guitar Hero: Metallica. I thought it was pretty cool on Guitar Hero 3 with Reign In Blood. For the haters of Guitar Hero, I say try it out. It’s a fun way to be a part of some of your favorite songs and might actually get you in to some other bands you haven’t heard of. My son loves it and we recently got Guitar Hero: World Tour for Christmas. I said before that it’s a great way for them to learn rhythm and timing and new music. World tour lacks in good song selection for a metal fan though.

According to Blabbermouth, Lar Ulrich told Game Informer Magazine that it wasn’t easy getting Slayer cleared for the game due to lyrical content.

“I’m super psyched we got SLAYER in there,” Ulrich said. “SLAYER’s got to be part of any heavy metal video game. There had been some issues with their lyrics. That gets into a whole slew of stuff like, ‘Microsoft won’t do it if this lyrical content is in there.’ There’s all this bullshit you have to deal with, but we stood up for SLAYER, and we finally got SLAYER cleared like a week ago.”

This kind of comes to a surprise to me after Tom Araya recently made some derogatory statements about Metallica and Death Magnetic, saying such things as:

When I heard the METALLICA album, it didn’t appeal to me at all. And all I could think about was, ‘Man, what happened?’

And

‘Hey, it’s not Rick Rubin. It’s the band. It’s what the band brings to the table. (Refering to Rick Ruben Producing Death Magnetic)

Perhaps Lars didn’t see those comments. What has me wondering is if Metallica are actually covering Slayer, Slayer playing their song or if it’s the Guitar Hero band (Whatever they’re called). Should be interesting. It also states that some of the other bands on the game will be Machine Head, Foo Fighters (I don’t know how the hell they got on a “Metal” video game) and Alice In Chains among other bands.

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Learn To Play Guitar Hero Songs…For Real

Scott — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:15:36 +0000

I just bought my son and Xbox 360 and Guitar Hero World Tour the other day for Christmas. It sits hidden in the closet while I try to restrain myself from pulling it out, putting it together and giving it a try while he’s at school. The best thing about the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games besides the fact that they are a blast to play is that they get kids interested in music and bands of the past and present. Sometimes it even gets them interested in learning a real instrument.

So what would be better than buying them a guitar (If they are totally interested),teaching them tablature if you know how and buying them a couple of books with tab transcriptions of songs from the game?

Hal Leonard music books doesn’t only offer Guitar Hero Tab but Rock Band Tab as well. You can pick these up at Amazon.com for $24.95 or less, each. There are various guitar tab websites where you can also learn tablature for probably all of these songs as well as online lessons, practice tab and downloads for GuitarPro, which is a great guitar tablature reading and writing software.

The best place I found for tab that has not been taken down is Ultimate-Guitar.com. If you are one of your children has an interest in learning to play guitar, Ultimate Guitar is a great resource.

Image Source: Guitar Hero Tab Book, Guitar Hero III and Rock Band Tab Books can be found at Amazon.com.

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The Sword: How Heavy This Axe Video

Scott — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:09:29 +0000

Since discovering these guys through Guitar Hero, as so many others did, I’ve really come to dig The Sword. Freya was only a glimpse at the talent that this band possess. Although not as many songs on Age Of Winters are as memorable as Freya or some of the songs on Gods Of The Earth, they still rock it out in an old-school fashion and absolutely kill it live. Check out the video below for How Heavy This Axe from Gods Of The Earth and if you ever have a chance to see them live, do it. Close your eyes and you’ll swear that you’re listening to the cd.

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Guitar Hero: Metallica Trailer?

Scott — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:35:56 +0000

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 that this is more tha a rumor.

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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Peace Sells…Will Be Available For Rock Band 2

Scott — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:05:13 +0000

Megadeth’s Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? will be available for full album download for Rock Band 2 as well as the title track already being on the disk. I don’t own Rock Band and I rarely play Guitar Hero anymore, but I think this is pretty cool. I would love to play Black Friday, Devils Island, Wake Up Dead, and the obvious Peace Sells…

This news came from Metal Injection.com who also reported that a couple of other full album downloads will available for Rock Band 2, which was set for a September release last time I heard. Check what other bands are slated for full album downloads for Rock Band 2 over at MetalInjection.com.

Image Source: Amazon.com

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