Rock Band picks up Metallica, entire album DLC

by Richard Mitchell { Jul 11th 2007 at 6:37PM }

Rock Band served as the tail end of EA's E3 press conference, and they made sure to save a few announcements for last. CEO of Harmonix, Alex Rigopulos announced that Rock Band will receive downloadable content every single week after its initial release. Even better, he announced that players not only be able to download single songs and multi-song packs, but entire albums. The first album that will be available for download is The Who's Who's Next. Finally, Rigopulos announced that Rock Band musicians will at last be jamming to Metallica. It was revealed that Metallica's "Enter Sandman" will ship with the retail version of Rock Band with many more career-spanning tracks coming as downloadable content.

Guitar Hero III may have Slash, but Metallica is certainly a jagged metal feather in Rock Band's increasing ostentatious cap.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

copa @ Jul 11th 2007 6:42PM

GAME.

OF.

THE.

YEAR.

cuso26 @ Jul 11th 2007 6:43PM

Exit GH. Enter Rock Bank.

... off to Never-never Land ...

cuso26 @ Jul 11th 2007 6:43PM

Grrr, Rock Band*

vidGuy @ Jul 11th 2007 6:43PM

It will be if it doesn't have an MSRP of approximately one million USD.

Borat @ Jul 11th 2007 6:43PM

Rock Band >>> GH III.

Aex @ Jul 11th 2007 6:45PM

Hehe, you all crack me up. I'll tell you a secret, "you can have both"

cuso26 @ Jul 11th 2007 6:46PM

Why bother though, when you can get the same GH experience and so much more in RB?

Aex @ Jul 11th 2007 6:52PM

Because you can't get the same experience... Different Game, Different Songs... Look, if you don't want GH3 that is fine, there is just no need to turn this into another "Fanboy" war thing...

Truepatriot @ Jul 11th 2007 9:27PM

oh they will turn into a fanboy thing!
rockband gets my guitar money though only gh3 disk for me ty.

SYN @ Jul 11th 2007 6:45PM

awesome. competition will make these guitar games so great.

right now GH2 on the 360 is utter crap. every couple months they release a pack of 3 songs out of the original GH for 10 bucks. lazy milking if you ask me.

baby sea tuna @ Jul 12th 2007 1:45PM

I guess that's as opposed to the PS2 version which has a whopping 0 downloadable tracks, no achievements, no extra songs, and isn't in HD. Yeah, what an utter piece of crap that 360 version is.

Shagittarius @ Jul 11th 2007 6:46PM

How did they approach metallica? Yeah we'd like to lisence everything before you guys became crap. Whats that no we really dont want the black album either...well ok if we have to.

sambo @ Jul 11th 2007 7:26PM

no kidding. Take what you can get i guess. Post-Justice Metallica just ain't the same.

Kizzle @ Jul 12th 2007 11:21AM

"Post-Justice Metallica" was just fine. Christ, why do I get the feeling you guys ripping everything after the 80's weren't even born until 1992?

The "black album" was very good - it wasn't the SAME as their previous work, but then again, Justice was a departure from Puppets, and RTL was an even more jarring departure from Kill 'Em All. So a band gets popular and you kiddies shit all over them. Yeah, that's not too cliched. You guys ripping the black album for "being too mainstream" probably also buy Linkin Park and System of a Down CDs.

Now St. Anger was absolutely a piece of crap, and not just because it was different. It was horribly produced, the vocals were godawful, and the songs were mindlessly simplistic.

Kenny @ Jul 11th 2007 6:47PM

OMG Metallica! Finally! Master of Puppets, please...

ROCK BAND Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2346954822

Aex @ Jul 11th 2007 6:55PM

I want Master of Puppets too!

Jon @ Jul 11th 2007 6:47PM

No Master of Puppets, no buy.

J8675309 @ Jul 11th 2007 6:52PM

And Rock Band wins the DLC contest by a FREAKING LANDSLIDE.

Now, let's just hope that a 15 dollar album doesn't cost 2600 MS points (that's 30 dollars)

E.J. @ Jul 11th 2007 7:18PM

GH2 was promised to have the most DLC in the marketplace and look at how they (failed to) deliver.

The level of hyperbole through these promises is just setting this whole thing up for a fall.

Don't get me wrong, I truly hope they deliver. I'm just afraid of how much a whole Metallica album will end up costing us. They can easily follow "industry-level pricing", i.e. GH2 pricing.

AirIntake @ Jul 11th 2007 6:52PM

Well, if it follows the GHII DLC pricing, nobody will be able to afford these awesome albums.

rom @ Jul 11th 2007 6:54PM

You know that one guy you play GH2 with that won't stop singing along no matter how many times you tell him he sucks and needs to shut up. Well get used to his voice, he will never stop now. Hehehe...

Aex @ Jul 11th 2007 6:56PM

I wonder if this means GH3 will be able to snag a Metallica song as well... They have been saying they want to bring a Metallica song to GH, along with Led Zepplin and AC/DC. Maybe Harmonix has just opened the door to make Guitar Hero 3 better too :)

OhJustSomeRandomGuy @ Jul 11th 2007 7:04PM

Right, reach out to the band that started the RIAA witchunt. Hey, why don't you guys sign up Dr. Dre? I hear he's available, too!

tavo31 @ Jul 11th 2007 7:09PM

man... i wish it'd come out on wii... if it doesn't i'll have to get GH3 instead, and this looks so much better.
always wanted a guitar hero, but i don't have a ps2 nor a 360

Gordon @ Jul 11th 2007 7:16PM

Enter Sandman? I'm sold.

JodyAnthony @ Jul 11th 2007 7:24PM

im actually slightly less interested knowing i would have to suffer through metallica.

give me some screeching weasel!

(i still want this game)

baby sea tuna @ Jul 12th 2007 1:50PM

Hell yeah! I'd love to rock out to some Veronica Hates Me or Peter Brady!

Matt B @ Jul 11th 2007 8:04PM

I would hate to be stuck doing the drums for Blackened, personally.

Morisato @ Jul 11th 2007 8:10PM

BTW, does that title card look a bit suggestive?

Morisato @ Jul 11th 2007 8:10PM

Just play the drums and guitar for free on your PC.

http://www.gdamania.net/modules/smartfaq/category.php?categoryid=9

You can even load your own songs and make tracks and share with others online.

dsub @ Jul 11th 2007 10:30PM

I'm sold. I knew this would happen. Rock Band has MTV on board, who has alot more pull in the music industry than Activision. I've also heard that they are in talks with AC/DC to be on the cover of the game.

Mrpoopsy @ Jul 12th 2007 2:48AM

I'm happy that Metallica is in the game but there are much better songs for Rock Band then Enter Sandman. That song is over played.

Blank_64 @ Aug 15th 2007 3:16PM

I agree that enter sandman is overplayed... but it is also their favorite mainstream song. Really hoping for "to who the bell tolls" "damage inc" "battery" and "Creeping death"... And for that matter WILL AT LEAST ONE GAME PLAY SOME JUDAS PRIEST!!! I would pay to play electric eye and jawbreaker... They are the metal gods after all...

metal1 @ Aug 20th 2007 10:32AM

enter sandman is a good song, not their best, but it will be nice to finally get to play metallica. what most of you fail to realize is most metallica songs would be to hard. they would have to be bonus tracks. I love metallica as much as the next guy and would love to get a crack at battery, dyer's eve, etc... but those songs are not that easy. sure most of the song wouldnt be too bad on guitar but its the solos that will get you (anyone tried jordan on expert?)and then you have to have someone playing drums for those songs, which for the most part will be extremely difficult.

I've also noticed that a lot of you seem to assume that it will be the Black album and onlythe Black album. just because the first song on the game for metallica is from it doesnt mean that's going to be the only album. think about it, for the rock fans, (not necesarily metallica fans) most of which have at least heard the mainstream enter sandman you get a song you've heard and can at least bear to play, ie.. rock this town, and for the hardcore metallica fans who truly wish to test their ability to rock there could be other albums such as justice.