Guitar Hero: Metallica confirmed for May

By Robert Purchese Published 14 January, 2009

Nothing Else Matters.

Activision has told Eurogamer that Guitar Hero: Metallica will be rocking onto European shelves this May.

The publisher's comments come after a internal schedule was supposedly leaked to French website LiveWii, citing the same date.

The news is also hot on the heels of US retailer GameStop claiming Guitar Hero: Metallica will be out there on 29th March.

Metallica follow Aerosmith as the focus of a spin-off Guitar Hero game, and bring with them full drum/guitar/microphone GHWT support plus fancy sounds for the GHTunes recording studio.

In celebration of the bonkers ability of band co-founder Lars Ulrich, Guitar Hero: Metallica will also sport an Expert Plus drumming difficulty and freestyle drum fill mode. There's lots of Metallica trivia, photos, set lists and videos, too.

Guitar Hero: Metallica is in development for Xbox 360 and PS3. A full track list can be found where we last wrote it.

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Comments (34) 3 years ago

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  • Beano #1 3 years ago

    Hopefully we will be able to buy seperate instruments (like drums) this time?

  • Zomoniac #2 3 years ago

    How can such an amateur drummer warrant an expert plus level? And given most of his parts are feeble attempts at fast double-kicking, how do they propose to make that feel right with one pedal?

  • JonFE #3 3 years ago

    Is there any hope that the full track list you linked right there is both incomplete and inaccurate? They should not, in their right mind, charge us full price for those 20 odd songs and leave behind some real classics at the same time...
    Edited by 1 at 14/01/09 @ 14:36

  • istandfreed #4 3 years ago

    Fuck Activision! The US get it in March and we have to wait until May??? After my kick pedal breaking, them not answering the my RMA requests and now the red pad not responding I'm developing a lot of hate for them...this better do Metallica justice[pun not intended].

  • Eraysor #5 3 years ago

    Guitar Hero: Megadeth would be substantially more awesome.

  • JohnnyWashnGo #6 3 years ago

    What I really want to see is Guitar Hero: Strapping Young Lad!

    Gene Hoglan drums like Satan on Crack... he would eat Lars Ulrich for breakfast, crap him out at lunch and flush him at dinner time.

  • Erinan #7 3 years ago

    Guitar Hero: Megadeth would be substantially more awesome.

    Well, Rock Band has the entire "Peace Sells" album available as DLC.

  • Thunderbolt #8 3 years ago

    As mentioned in the AC/DC Live pack - how about if the actual performers were Metallica instead of random computer generated characters and the proper venues to add that element of authenticty.

  • aphexstwin #9 3 years ago

    expert brums for such a shit drummer, for shame. the rest of the band carry him and even in the 80's there were many drummers that were better; nicko from maiden and neil peart from rush to name two. if the game came as two installments, pre and post black then i would be tempted by pre, but this is full to overflowing of a band revolving around a frontman who rather likes the sound of his own voice.

    wonder when gh:iron maiden or qotsa is gunna see any development

    add on;

    farty, rb's drums are now flawed because of gh:wt. as was said on the acdc review, anything past hard on rb's drums is just making it harder than its supposed to be in reality, the orange pad is not used, the green acts as a cymbal as well as the yellow. (which makes the ion kit a joke for rb imo)
    Edited by 2 at 14/01/09 @ 15:08

  • vegard #10 3 years ago

    @farticusmaximus:

    hoglan played drums for SYL during their lifetime, then he went over to zimmer's hole when SYL disbanded!

  • Zomoniac #11 3 years ago

    Lars is a shitsack of epic proportions, and a lapsed and incompetant drummer now, but upto and including Justice he was generally regarded as one of metal's finest drummers.

    He did some reasonably creative stuff back in the day, but he's never been technically competent (compare him to the likes of Mitchell, Bonham and Copeland who were around at the same time and he doesn't even come close), he just did some stuff not many people had really done before with double-kick, but compare that to what guys like Lombardo and Jordison are doing (and they're just two obvious examples) and it really is nothing. It's not that he's a terrible drummer as such, but when you've got drummers like Copeland, Paice, Alex Van Halen, Jordison, Dolmayan, Chamberlain, Mitchell, Steve Smith, Peart and even Portnoy (can't stand the guy but his playing is impressive) in these games it seems strange they'd pick someone who doesn't compare to any of them to have a new difficulty dedicated to him.

  • Thunderbolt #12 3 years ago

    Can someone please tell me when Nick Oliveri is returning to QOTSA because I want the real band back!

  • aphexstwin #13 3 years ago

    i it me or as a fan of drummers, is there any room for some pantera in these games? questionable lyrics yes but vinnies double kick work on becoming is gorgeous. or even some sepultura, ought from chaos ad would be immense....

  • BOFH_UK #14 3 years ago

    Guh, why did this have to be a guitar hero title rather than a RB add-on... sorry, but ever since Nerversoft took over GH the charts aren't fun to play anymore. Great for those who want to go for uber-scores, terrible for enjoying with friends the way these games work best. Still, may be tempted to pick up the solus pack for this as Metallica's back catalogue is damn near perfect for this sort of game and the other bands that are supposed to be on the track list are damn good as well. Oh, and yes, the WHOLE back catalogue please, everything from Kill 'Em All to Death Magentic, there's some great tracks off every album and it gives a welcome variation when playing. Personally, after hearing 'em at the O2 last year, I'm hoping that Bleeding Me makes it in, really good track and it fits in nicely with the older work believe it or not.

  • Toothball #15 3 years ago

    @Zomoniac:

    And given most of his parts are feeble attempts at fast double-kicking, how do they propose to make that feel right with one pedal?

    I seem to recall seeing something about this mode being primarily produced for using a second pedal. No idea how it would be incorporated though.

  • jaxon58 #16 3 years ago

    Well, I for one am really looking forward to this. The rumoured tracklist includes The Sword which would be a great addition. I'd never heard of them before Freya on GH2, now I have both their albums.

  • Zomoniac #17 3 years ago

    i it me or as a fan of drummers, is there any room for some pantera in these games? questionable lyrics yes but vinnies double kick work on becoming is gorgeous. or even some sepultura, ought from chaos ad would be immense....

    Cowboys From Hell was on the first GH game, but that's not much use to you. And I left off Danny Carey from better-drummers-than-Lars-who-are-already-in-GH list, fucking awesome player.

  • richardiox #18 3 years ago

    Quick question...i brought GH3 today for £35 with guitar in HMV. Will I be able to but this Metallica one and play it using that guitar or do i NEED GH4 instead? Cheers, metal up yer ass and all that.

  • brappbrap #19 3 years ago

    What we really (REALLY) need is Guitar Hero: Decapitated. You want to hear real drumming, check them out. Shame the drummer is dead though...

    I think it would require a difficulty level even after Expert Plus. I'm going for Brutal Extreme Difficulty.

  • Thunderbolt #20 3 years ago

    richardiox,

    Quick answer yes you can play it using the GH3 guitar (check the GH:WT review for more detail) but I would say buy the Rock Band solus as they are a much better game

  • spongebob #21 3 years ago

    No DLC for the GH fans, just new full game releases. What a load of..

  • vegard #22 3 years ago

    @brappbrap

    hey, maybe that's what the vocalist needs in order to pay all those medical bills, eh? my dream would be the entire colors album by between the buried and me, although i suck too much at rythm games to be able to play any of those songs...

  • jaluuk #23 3 years ago

    It's amusing that that frontman fella said "It's a great way to bring our music to new audiences."

    Surely the best way to do that would to get your music in a normal Guitar Hero game, not a moneygrabbing seperate disc. Only Metallica fans will buy Guitar Hero Metallica, idiot.

  • redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #24 3 years ago

    If it's drumming you're all after surely Guitar Hero: Dream Theatre would be the dog's bollocks? Can't say I've heard many (if any) drummers better than Portnoy!

  • kungfubob #25 3 years ago

    i would rather spend my hard earned money on a real guitar,tbh

  • MasterNameless #26 3 years ago

    "i would rather spend my hard earned money on a real guitar,tbh "

    Hah, there's always one isn't there. I can't even be bothered to say the obligatory answer to this statement, which someone so cleverly says in every single RB or Gh thread...

    Although, as a few others have mentioned, no way am I buying a new bloody full price version of Guitar Hero every time they decide release it for a different band. GH may have the better instruments, but if they don't pull their fingers out of their arses people will get pretty sick of this and simply go for RB and it's far superior DLC offerings.

  • RobotRocker #27 3 years ago

    @ farticusmaximus

    As far as I know, its the same RYBG set up on the World Tour kit. Since Y is mapped to a cymbal anyway (Rock bands Drums usually vary depending on chart but its mostly Red = Snare, Yellow and Blue = Hi-Hat and Ride Cymbals, Green = Crash. They all turn into toms on the Fill section). I dont think you can use the Orange cymbal as a crash though unless Harmonix Mapped it out as an extra green.

  • QotSAfan #28 3 years ago

    oliveri wont be back anytime soon. personally i dont mind

  • busboy33 #29 3 years ago

    Aisde from Farticus . . .

    No love for Mr. Benante? Y'all can turn your noses up, but S.O.D. and early 'Thrax defined that delicious mix of hard and speed. Elitiists . . .

  • DAN.E.B #30 3 years ago

    How can such an amateur drummer warrant an expert plus level? And given most of his parts are feeble attempts at fast double-kicking, how do they propose to make that feel right with one pedal?



    a second kick pedal will be available at launch

  • Enzeru #31 3 years ago

    expert PLUS!? jesus christ, my arms are gonna fall off D:

  • wonton #32 3 years ago

    "In celebration of the bonkers ability of band co-founder Lars Ulrich..."

    does
    not
    compute

  • gblegend #33 3 years ago

    The reason people buy track packs or DLC is because they want to play new songs that they like, what is so hard to believe about that? I'm happy to pay for stuff I want, its a personal choice, you don't have to buy eveything that is released.

  • gblegend #34 3 years ago

    @ CountFapula

    So you wouldn't buy expansion packs for the games you like? Granted they would have to popular enough to continue to make them or even warrant expansion packs.

    You sir are a cock, not because of the games that you like but because you feel the need to abuse other people for the ganes they choose to enjoy.

    Technically I'm a Rock Band fan but I will be buying GHWT: Metallica
    Edited by 1 at 16/01/09 @ 10:31