GH: Metallica songs, Wii differences detailed
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 12:36am by Derek
The underground metal scene vomited all over its patch-covered denim vests in 1984 just because Metallica recorded a ballad.
Imagine the reaction if the band had released an NES game.
Nonetheless, Metallica revealed Friday a complete list of the songs included in Guitar Hero: Metallica, the legendary heavy metal band’s upcoming take on the wildly popular rhythm game franchise.
According to Metallica, the game will have 49 songs, 28 of which are their own. The other 21 are from artists Metallica were influenced by during their early years and newer bands influenced by Metallica.
Guitar Hero: Metallica includes the following songs:
- Hit The Lights (Kill ‘Em All, 1983)
- Seek And Destroy (Kill ‘Em All, 1983)
- Whiplash (Kill ‘Em All, 1983)
- Creeping Death (Ride The Lightning, 1984)
- Fade To Black (Ride The Lightning, 1984)
- Fight Fire With Fire (Ride The Lightning, 1984)
- For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ride The Lightning, 1984)
- Battery (Master of Puppets, 1986)
- Disposable Heroes (Master Of Puppets, 1986)
- Master Of Puppets (Master Of Puppets, 1986)
- Orion (Master Of Puppets, 1986)
- The Thing That Should Not Be (Master Of Puppets, 1986)
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Master Of Puppets, 1986)
- Dyers Eve (…And Justice For All, 1988)
- One (…And Justice For All, 1988)
- The Shortest Straw (…And Justice For All, 1988)
- Enter Sandman (Metallica, 1991)
- Nothing Else Matters (Metallica, 1991)
- Sad But True (Metallica, 1991)
- The Unforgiven (Metallica, 1991)
- Wherever I May Roam (Metallica, 1991)
- King Nothing (Load, 1996)
- Fuel (ReLoad, 1997)
- The Memory Remains (ReLoad, 1997)
- Mercyful Fate Medley (Garage, Inc., 1998)
- No Leaf Clover (S&M, 1999)
- Frantic (St. Anger, 2003)
- All Nightmare Long (Death Magnetic, 2008)
From 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 – Tuesday’s Gone
Machine Head – Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon – Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate – Evil
Michael Schenker Group – Armed And Ready
Motörhead – 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
Purists and metal aficionados should be quite pleased with the final list. Of the 28 Metallica songs, only seven were recorded post-1991.
The band also outlined platform-specific differences in the game’s track list. For PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners who have already downloaded Metallica’s Death Magnetic album pack for Guitar Hero: World Tour, those songs will be carried over into the full game.
Because the Wii and PS2 versions do not support full downloadable albums, they will include Death Magnetic tracks “Broken, Beat and Scarred,” “Cyanide” and “My Apocalypse” on the game disc.
In addition, the game’s menus were designed by Pushead, the venerable punk rock and heavy metal artist who has designed most of the band’s shirts and promotional designs over the last 25 years.
As reported on Infendo last month, the Metallica version will bring interesting new features to Guitar Hero, including a new freestyle drum mode, DVD-style features like tour footage and photos, as well as Metallica and Slayer-inspired samples for GHTunes custom songs.
The new Expert Plus drumming mode may be the most exciting new feature, using a second bass pedal for driving double-bass rhythms. A second pedal will be included free with any GameStop preorder.
Guitar Hero: Metallica is currently scheduled for a Mar. 29 release on PS3 and Xbox 360. According to the band, the PS2 and Wii versions will probably be “coming in the spring, most likely in early May.”
January 27th, 2009 at 4:21 am
That’s a pretty solid list and I like seeing no leaf clover in there, there’s only one track missing i’d have liked, and that’s ‘that was just your life’ off death magnetic.
January 27th, 2009 at 7:35 am
I”m not a huge fan of DLC, but I would have forked over money for the Death Magnetic album. Now I see that Wii owners still can’t get Death Magnetic DLC, and the two best tracks off the album – The Day That Never Comes and Unforgiven III – are not on the list.
I’m really mad about that, and this went from an instant buy to one to wait for until it goes on sale.
Plus were is And Justice For All, Blackened and personally I liked St. Anger, but I can understand that omission at least.
January 27th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Someone’s going to say it and it might as well be me. If the Wii version is now routinely outselling the competition by huge margins, and combined with the PS2 version probably makes the vast majority of sales, and even more of profit, why oh why has Activision chosen to not only not release the game on time for them, missing their own marketing momentum and obvious marketing optimality by not having their most saleable products first, but don’t even have a solid release date on these platforms? “coming in the spring, most likely in early May.” – sounds like they’re not sure. If I was an Activision exec and my Dev teams for my second biggest game on my biggest platform said that to me, I’d say back, “You’re gonna get bloody sure about that date and that date’s gonna be bloody quick, and to help you on your merry way I’m pulling all our resources off the other versions for this because you better know who’s buttering our bread, sonny. Or would you rather work on your precious next-gen consoles? If you don’t want our work here on the Wii, then you’re free to leave. I’m sure EA will take your applications right now. NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT”.
January 27th, 2009 at 7:55 am
where’s the call of ktulu?
Anyway, I’m looking forward to it. Does anyone know if rock band hardware will be compatible with this?
January 27th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Yeah I suppose if Orion is here, Ktulu should be aswell.
January 27th, 2009 at 8:55 am
I’m really happy with the setlist, I’d swap out a few of the Met songs for my personal favorites, but that’s a small issue. The non-Met songs are really solid as well which is just fantastic. Eagerly awaiting this.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I don’t know if it made a difference to this setlist but Justice, Blackened and Ride The Lightning are in a Rock Band downloadable track pack on 360/PS3. Will probably show up in Rock Band 2 Wii DLC too, but maybe RB has the rights to those songs locked up.
Interestingly, on 360 you can transfer all the songs from the RB1 disc to the hard drive and play them all through RB2, with the exception of Enter Sandman and Run to the Hills. Maybe Activision went out of their way to get Sandman exclusive on this game, it is their biggest hit afterall.
As far as songs that notably absent, where are Harvestor of Sorrow and Four Horsemen? Glad to see Dyers Eve, but no Damage Inc?
January 27th, 2009 at 9:22 am
no ride the lightening? too bad. the god that failed would be nice too. and i was sort of hoping they’d have the s&m versions of some songs.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:50 am
“I don’t know if it made a difference to this setlist but Justice, Blackened and Ride The Lightning are in a Rock Band downloadable track pack on 360/PS3.”
That’s what I was going to mention. I think these songs were already locked into contract with RB, though there is so many songs on both platforms I find it strange that they were left out. Alas.
January 27th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I’m even more impressed with the non-Metallica tracks. COC, Mercyful Fate, Samhain, Diamondhead, Kyuss, Suicidal. Some great songs, a few of which Metallica covered. Glad to have the originals.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:07 am
If the Death magnetic DLC content is not compatible with the Nintendo WFC, why not include the songs that are missing in this game?. I know that activision or metallica are only interested in our money, but I think that the wii users must have a little bit of consideration too. All that album is great and the best song “the day that never comes” is not on DLC for us!. Should at least include this song
January 27th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Surprised that Metallica’s covers of “Turn the Page” and “Whiskey in the Jar” aren’t on there. Their version of “Whiskey…” is one of my all-time favorite tracks.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Thanks for the “free” 3 Death Magnetic songs… could you please make the rest of the album available as DLC as well? Hell, It wouldn’t bother me if the other DLC Death Magnetic songs were only compatible with GH Metallica…
January 27th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I’m far from being much of a metallica fan, but that’s a pretty solid songlist. I didn’t think i’d have any interest in this game but i kinda do now.
January 27th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
No Sabbath, Dio, Maiden, Saxon, Megadeth, Scorpions? This metal aficionado is not quite pleased.
January 27th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Kyle: Come on, did you really expect Megadeth music in Guitar Hero: Metallica? That’s as likely as hell as freezing over.
I agree, I would’ve preferred bands like Alice In Chains and Foo Fighters be dropped in favor of Testament, Anthrax, Exodus, Death Angel…but we have to keep in mind that this game is meant to be mainstream and sell to a wide audience. I’d say we can’t really expect much more than the songs they’ve included, to be honest. I’m generally pleased.
January 27th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Derek: Yeah, I suppose you’re right. Still, this may be the closest we get to a “metal” edition of GH, and I would’ve liked more, well, metal.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:47 am
I’m making a prediction: Guitar Hero: Iron Maiden announced by 2010.
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“I don’t know if it made a difference to this setlist but Justice, Blackened and Ride The Lightning are in a Rock Band downloadable track pack on 360/PS3.”
That’s what I was going to mention. I think these songs were already locked into contract with RB, though there is so many songs on both platforms I find it strange that they were left out. Alas.