Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released 82
An anonymous reader writes "Metallica has announced the setlist for their upcoming Guitar Hero game. They have a wide variety of songs from their different albums. There are 28 Metallica songs and 21 from other artists. They have also confirmed the release date of March 29th. The list includes Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, One, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Fans who pre-order the game will have an opportunity to get an extra bass drum pedal to keep up with Lars Ulrich's beats."
Bet it will sound better than the CD album (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm curious if the sound is not compressed to absolute buggery on Guitar Hero.
Metallica's last CD album "Death Magnetic" sounded absolutely crap.
Re:Don't buy it (Score:4, Interesting)
But they are greedy litigious assholes considering all the crap they have pulled in recent years that basically shows they don't get it when it comes to modern music distribution. Alienate your fans, way to go!
Yeah, because those fans sure are acting like they've been alienated [wikipedia.org], what with the latest album debuting at #1 and apparently going platinum in the first day of sales.
Now if you had said "alienating the fans who don't buy their albums", that would probably be more accurate. But when you're running a business, what do you lose by doing that?
Re:Don't buy it (Score:4, Interesting)
Guy 1: Aww, Metallica? They suck!
Guy 2: No dude, that's Justice, they were good back then!
Guy 1: Really?
Guy 2: Yeah, they made albums before St. Anger, you know...
That said, I still like the newer albums. Not as much as the older ones, but new Metallica is still far superior to all the other crap being made nowadays. I just bought Death Magnetic a few weeks ago, and it's the only album made in the past 5 years that I own that's not made by Dream Theater.
As for the lawsuits, that was almost entirely Lars, and I won't begrudge the entire band for it. The rest of them basically didn't care one way or the other.
Besides, the band's always advocated for free distribution of bootlegs; it's just studio material that they went after. For the last several years you've been able to download recordings of their live shows for free from their site.
Re:Queen (Score:3, Interesting)
Rock Band is working on a Beatles game for Christmas, and rumors has it that part of Pearl Jam's huge marketing blitz launching in March will include the re-released Ten as a full album download for Rock Band.
Personally, I would kill for a full Rock Band/Guitar Hero centered on grunge rock from the 90's with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Temple of the Dog, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, leading into more modern bands like Foo Fighters, Audioslave, etc.