Rock Band Weekly: Iron Maiden, The Hives, Stone Temple Pilots

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jan 7th 2008 at 1:30PM }

Don't expect a road map of Rock Band's downloadable content for the future, but you can plan on getting that second mortgage on your house because the excellent DLC just keeps flowing. This week brings us three different decades of rock and you should feel free to go with the emotion of each decade. For Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast start banging your head, then get strung out and depressed for Stone Temple Pilot's Interstate Love Song and, finally, get hipster and pour yourself an appletini with The Hives' Die, All Right! Some good songs to play while "waiting on a Sunday afternoon."

Individual songs

Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden *Cover* (160 MS points/ $2)
Die, All Right! - The Hives (160 MS points/ $2)
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots (160 MS Points / $2))

Videos of the songs can be found after the break. Reminder: Harmonix will be announcing Rock Band DLC every Monday from now on, and the DLC will continue to be available Tuesday on Xbox 360 and Thursday on PS3.

Tags: harmonix, iron-maiden, ironmaiden, rock-band, rock-band-weekly, rockband, stone-temple-pilots, stonetemplepilots, the-hives, thehives

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 7th 2008 1:36PM

Give rock band another 6 months, and they'll have the entire GH3 songlist available. At least, all the songs worth having (Fuck you "Raining Blood", "Black Sunset", "Anarchy in the UK").

paragraph @ Jan 7th 2008 1:39PM

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Fail?

Call me when the Rockband Guitar dosn't feel like suck and we can talk.

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By "*cover*" do you mean it's a cover? or that it's featured in the picture... i'm going to assume the former...

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 7th 2008 1:45PM

Then I needed to call you the day after christmas when I fixed mine. The RB guitar is far superior to the GH3 guitar except my damn strap keeps coming off.

I know its all personal preference, but after playing on it for a week, I literally can't go back to the GH3 guitar.

Tiptup300 @ Jan 7th 2008 2:59PM

On the rock band guitars you can unscrew the things that hold the strap, so you can unscrew the thing, put the strap under it, then screw it back on.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 7th 2008 3:04PM

Thats a great Idea.

I might even add a washer, just to be sure.

tmacairjordan87 @ Jan 7th 2008 3:31PM

well i can't say anything about the GH3 guitar since i've never tried it, but when i play rock band i use the GH2 guitar because plain and simple...the rock band guitar sucks giant sweaty hairy balls.

Even if it wasn't completely fucked up and made poorly, i hate the no click strum bar and the buttons are so far pressed down on the board it doesn't even feel like i'm hitting buttons. I wish they had a system in place where you buy the full game but can return a controller if you didn't want it for 50-60 bucks.

Dirk Dorkelson @ Jan 7th 2008 4:43PM

While I haven't used the GH3 axe yet, I love the Rock Band guitar compared to the GH2 one. It's bigger, which suits my 6'3" frame better; it doesn't have that annoying strum-bar click; and the whammy bar is way easier to use. Plus the FX switch and the solo buttons are nice additions. It feels less like a "toy" than the Xplorer. My only complaints are that my first guitar's strum bar broke, and my second one doesn't always go into overdrive when I want it to, but it does most of the time.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 7th 2008 5:02PM

I've found that the RB Guitar, you have to hold it upright for a moment to deploy overdrive, where you could just sort of "jerk" the GH guitar.

baby sea tuna @ Jan 7th 2008 1:44PM

Whoa, unexpededly awesome! *This* is how you do DLC. Take note...well, everyone.

XanthouS @ Jan 7th 2008 1:44PM

"Interstate Love Song" for the fuggn win!

Seems every week there's at least one DLC track and I have to own.

Richard Mitchell @ Jan 7th 2008 3:07PM

Interstate Love Song is good, but I'd love to hear some B-sides too.

Jerk Face @ Jan 7th 2008 1:46PM

I kind of have a dirty spot for The Hives.

Croove55 @ Jan 7th 2008 5:33PM

Right on. "Die All Right" is probably the best song off of Veni Vidi Vicious.

Man, why is it everyone is ashamed to like these guys? They sound good, damn it.

ill trooper @ Jan 8th 2008 2:25AM

I love the Hives! I would have rather heard 'Supply & Demand' or 'Hate to Say I Told You So' off that album, but this is cool with me.

zoltek @ Jan 7th 2008 1:50PM

i disagree on the rock band guitar, i hate it... hate hate hate hate.

the guitar hero 2 guitar is the way to go for this guy

Scottastic @ Jan 7th 2008 1:55PM

Do you play real guitar?

I've found that most people I know who play guitar prefer the RB guitar over GH. Not that there is anything wrong with the GH guitar, or anyone who uses it, but if you get used to not having the *click* the RB is much easier to finger.

jsn @ Jan 7th 2008 2:18PM

Scottastic:

I agree, all of my friends who play guitar like it better. It just takes getting used to, but once you take the time to do that, it's better.

MasterInsan0 @ Jan 7th 2008 3:09PM

Fortunately, unless you're playing on the PS3, the Guitar Hero guitars are an option. I bought the X-Plorer to use as a bass with the 360 version, but I find myself using it occasionally on guitar too just because I'm not sure which one I like more yet.

Rob @ Jan 7th 2008 1:51PM

Nice, been waiting for Interstate Love Song when i first heard Vasoline was in the set list. Can't wait for PS3 Thursday =)

Scottastic @ Jan 7th 2008 2:01PM

I absolutely have to agree with you. I can't really play RB with the GH guitar. However, I went back and played GHII, and it was nearly impossible for me with the RB guitar. I think the notes are just very different for the two games. GH focuses on the crazy solo parts where RB focuses on the basic guitar, with crazy solos being helped by the high frets.

I guess, like with a real guitar, it depends on your play style. I didn't like playing the (real) les paul guitar, but I would never call it "garbage."

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 7th 2008 2:04PM

How does one actually use the high frets? Is it ONLY in the solo sections and at the end? And when you do, does you timing have to be exact for it to work?

JJ Rooster @ Jan 7th 2008 2:22PM

How did you play GHII with the RB guitar? I thought the Fender only worked with RB and that's it?

jsn @ Jan 7th 2008 2:33PM

JJ Rooster: That's the way I've always heard it. This would be the first I've heard of the RB controller working with any other games.

FidliousWong @ Jan 7th 2008 2:37PM

Crono, to answer your question, it's like this.

The higher fret keys have no real difference in performance on accuracy and such. However, they are sized appropriately to a real guitar (wider frets going up, smaller frets going down.... currently having issues holding two strings on the high frets but I'm learning real guitar and my fingers don't seems to like one another when I'm that low). However, and this happens more on cover songs, which frets you choose do adjust the pitch on the notes accordingly. This is subtle most of the time, especially noticable during solo sequences.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 7th 2008 2:54PM

So you still have to strum with them?

Tiptup300 @ Jan 7th 2008 3:04PM

The big frets are like normal guitar hero ones.

The little frets are used as normal guitar hero ones, UNLESS you are in a solo on Rock band, then you do not strum, you just hit the notes by hitting the frets. ZERO STRUMMING. Also, if you hit a small fret in solo, and there is no real note there, it counts as a misstrum.

booticon @ Jan 7th 2008 4:51PM

Yeah, in parts of the song other than the solo, there's no difference between the set of frets. You could play the entire song on the higher frets if you really wanted (you still have to strum obvs.).

Lanturn of Ash @ Jan 7th 2008 10:33PM

Use the high frets for the 'big rock ending'. You can completely light the board up and rape your score through the roof compared to anything you can do with the GH guitar.

tc @ Jan 7th 2008 2:07PM

Must resist urge to make Scott Weiland/Heroin Hero joke...

whoops!

KrazyIan @ Jan 7th 2008 2:13PM

A COVER of Number of the Beast? Damn that sucks. Bruce Dickinson is pretty inimitable.

jsn @ Jan 7th 2008 2:28PM

The RttH cover is pretty damned good, I expect similar quality from this. It's not like you're sitting there just listening to the song either. Expect lots of covers in RB due to recording methods of the past.

zoltek @ Jan 7th 2008 2:23PM

i used to play real guitar, i just like how the buttons are laid out on the gh2 guitar, the gh3 guitar theyre too far apart, and i like the click for some reason it just easier for me to get on pace with constant notes in RB and GH when i can hear the clicking or at least feel it

zero @ Jan 7th 2008 2:25PM

No "Run to the Hills?" :-(

copa @ Jan 7th 2008 2:28PM

Yeah, "Run To The Hills" was so good that I wanted to pay two dollars for it after it was already free on the game disc.

zero @ Jan 7th 2008 2:32PM

Well it is a good song... And it wasn't free, you already paid for it. I didn't know it was on there because I don't own the game and I think Run to the Hills is a better song than Number of the Beast hence my comment.

Dr. @ Jan 7th 2008 2:32PM

Don't give EA any ideas... :(

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 7th 2008 2:56PM

Freaking hard song on drums. I'm a drummer, IRL (though not a very good one), and that song kicked my ass. Fortunately, I was playing with 3 other folks in career mode and we figured out how to manage out "overdrive" to get through it.

It is an awesome song though. My arms hurt after playing on Hard.

booticon @ Jan 7th 2008 4:54PM

zero, if you don't own the game, then why are you chiming in with the idea of a song that may already be in the game?

Dictatorship @ Jan 7th 2008 2:31PM

I'm still waiting for Judas Priest and Wintersun to be announced as Rock Band DLC...

Raikage (Wii FC 5508 0487 4434 0992) @ Jan 7th 2008 4:54PM

Did you just say Wintersun?! Battle Against Time would be incredible... except the RB guitar suuuuuuuucks. For me, the strum bar is awesome but the buttons are horrible, I'm always hitting chords instead of just single buttons.

I can 4 star Cult of Personality, but I can barely play expert on the easy songs on RB because of that stupid guitar... It looks really cool though...

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Jan 7th 2008 5:18PM

Try positioning your fingers over the "braille" on the buttons. Makes it easier, at least for me.

bearxor @ Jan 7th 2008 2:34PM

Ummm... where is Activision/Neversoft/RedOctane?

Dictatorship @ Jan 7th 2008 2:38PM

Trying to find DLC songs that can "stand up" to Rock Band's DLC. Seriously, the price of their DLC is crazy, and there's not much of a selection. There's Mastodon in their DLC, but you have to buy it along with two other crap songs in order to play it. Not cool... at all.

bearxor @ Jan 7th 2008 2:36PM

Wow dude, if you're going to say something like that at least check Wikipedia to make sure it's not already in the game.

Joseph @ Jan 7th 2008 2:44PM

Well, at least one good song this week. Hopefully we'll see some good packs come out - or hey, how about that Metallica full album. That'd be nice as long as it isn't St. Anger. Or really anything in the past 8 years.

tmacairjordan87 @ Jan 7th 2008 3:46PM

well get ready, cause i can almost guarantee you that sometime this year maybe even early this year there will be at least 1 full metallica album on there. When the announcement that Metallica would be in rock band came they said they secured the rights to albums as well.

My bet would be on Master of Puppets because that would be including what most regard as the greatest heavy metal album ever and would greatly fill the overall void of heavy metal in Rock Band.