Well now, this is a trend we'd like to see continue: Just a week after it's last update (a batch of No Doubt tunes) Guitar Hero IIIis getting another song pack. This time, it's the "Modern Metal Track Pack," featuring master tracks of Deftones' "Hole in the Earth," Avenged Sevenfold's "Almost Easy" and Thrice's "The Arsonist." As you've come to expect, the three songs will cost you 500 points ($6.25).
If you don't find yourself in a metal mood, you'll be excited to hear that the next pack is already in the works. It's three from Dropkick Murphys, master tracks of "Famous for Nothing," "(F)lannigan's Ball" and "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya." It's due in mid-March in time for St. Patrick's Day. And the best part? Totally free. We didn't think it was possible for us to be more excited about drinking ourselves into oblivion on a Monday, but we guess wonders never cease.
The only thing that baffles me is out of all Deftones songs, why did they chose Hole in the Earth instead of something way more well known. Like, Change in the House of Flies or Dai The Flu.
Ugh, I love how they term three songs that obstentially fit into "Mallcore" and "Nu Metal" MODERN METAL!!! (echo!).
Yes. A7x, Thrice, and Deftones make the mall kiddies and Nu Metal hangers-on squeal in anticipation, but those of us who have been long drenched in the blood and gore of death/black metal are sorely lacking any GHness.
The sheer challenge of playing Necrophagist songs would make any hardcore GHer jump for joy. They'd be a lot harder than Through the Fire and Flames. Sweeping arpeggios, hammered and tapped scale runs, odd time signatures...it'd be a thing of beauty.
But it's not mainstream and won't appeal to the average GH player because the average GH player is the average joe, someone who probably doesn't like brutal technical death metal.
I'm just saying, Acti, give us (Few and far between) death heads some candy. A Necro or Cannibal Corpse or Napalm Death song. Speed + Technicality = Difficult but rewarding Guitar Heroing!
The likely-hood of that kind of stuff happening would be pretty slim though. It would certainly be great for variety.
Oh also Deftones have since evolved past the whole Nu Metal label, they have been pretty firmly planted in the Alternative Metal range since White Pony came out in 2000.
Bah I'm not much for genre descriptions though, they seem to exist only for people to argue over which label goes where xD
Avenged Sevenfold is a killer modern metal band. And how can you people complain about the quality of free songs? Especially when it is a great band like the Dropkicks?
