Lars won't confirm Guitar Hero: Metallica (spoiler: it's happening)
by Christopher Grant 
{ Aug 6th 2008 at 2:58PM }
When asked about the existence of the aforementioned game by MTV News, Metallica drummer and lead Napster-hater Lars Ulrich said, "... if somebody's gonna follow [GH: Aerosmith] up ... we're talking, and its exciting, and the people at Guitar Hero and Activision are rapidly becoming our best new friends in the world. You can put the rest of it together yourself." We took a moment to put those various pieces together and, sure enough, they basically assembled the retail packaging for the game. For further evidence, hit up the video after the break.
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copa @ Aug 6th 2008 3:02PM
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith used cute cartoon clips to retell memorable moments in the band's history.
I hope Guitar Hero: Metallica includes this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIuR5TNyL8Y
Allister Howe @ Aug 6th 2008 3:04PM
Hope no one pirates Guitar Hero: Metallica, :P
juju187 @ Aug 6th 2008 3:08PM
im gonna pirate it just so i can delete it
What the Frack?! @ Aug 6th 2008 4:02PM
@juju187:
Dang, I wanted to say something just like that!
tmacairjordan87 @ Aug 6th 2008 3:03PM
In before all the ridiculous metallica hate. Seriously it's been like 13 years since they cut their hair and went alternative and almost 10 years since napster. Let it go people.
copa @ Aug 6th 2008 3:17PM
And it's been 20 years since they produced a great album.
I will always celebrate their groundbreaking contributions to metal history, but I'm not going to forget all the silliness since then.
Roto13 @ Aug 6th 2008 3:36PM
"And it's been 20 years since they produced a great album."
Oh, snaps.
Jimiisama @ Aug 6th 2008 5:20PM
omg Copa, I can't believe it really has been 20 years since they've made a great album! Time flies =( Hopefully GH Metallica will have a handful of good songs, but something tells me it's going to have more of the newer stuff, which is mostly crap.
jsn @ Aug 6th 2008 3:06PM
what better way to follow up the bomb that is GH: Aerosmith than a dedicated Metallica game full of their new "hits"!?!?
Raikage (GOLDEN Gun Of The Patriots) @ Aug 6th 2008 3:14PM
If it has a lot of their old stuff I'll buy it for sure. But if they are going to be stupid and load it with St. Anger they can forget it.
I really really want to play "Fade to Black"
Oh and nb4 all the "OMG GH SUX HMX 4EVR" sheep.
riggs @ Aug 6th 2008 3:22PM
baaaaaaah bitch.
j/k
Jimiisama @ Aug 6th 2008 5:21PM
wtf is HMX? You mean MTV?
Xulap @ Aug 6th 2008 3:18PM
Metallica for life, baby!
I'ma buy this for sure. I don't care if Guitar Hero's like this stink, it's Metallica! I can't miss anything that has Metallica on it.
J.Goodwin @ Aug 6th 2008 3:20PM
Is there money to be made? Lars is totally there.
Lars @ Aug 6th 2008 6:47PM
Did someone say money? I'm totally there!
baby sea tuna @ Aug 6th 2008 3:23PM
I don't really care either way, I just wanted to chime in about what an asshole that guy is. He and James should sign up for some humility classes.
They wouldn't even need to travel, since Kirk is handing out free lessons on grace in the face of success every time he opens his mouth.
EMaster @ Aug 6th 2008 3:25PM
Fuck you Lars! Didn`t he die from choking on all the money in his mouth yet? Napster was the best shit ever and he ruined it. Just cause he knew how to use a PC to the point where he can surf for porn he decided he would ruin one of the things that made the internet as popular as it is today.
tmacairjordan87 @ Aug 6th 2008 3:30PM
Why? because he stopped you from getting music for free? Quit your bitching, it's as easy as ever to get music for free on the internet.
Roto13 @ Aug 6th 2008 3:37PM
Who stopped who from getting free music? Nobody stopped me, that's for sure.
EMaster @ Aug 6th 2008 3:37PM
Not back then it wasn`t nor was half the music that they had on Napster for sale at the time like underground electronic mixes from the 90s or foreign music which was its greatest feature. I can;t even find half the things now legally or illicitly that I could find back then. So STFU.
Roto13 @ Aug 6th 2008 3:42PM
By the time Napster died, there were already dozens of other ways to get free music online. If you couldn't find it, you just weren't paying attention.
ChuckJ @ Aug 6th 2008 5:19PM
You're a jack ass. Every celebrity and pro athlete and everyone else who gets rich off of its consumers, they are all just as bad or tens times as bad as Lars and Metallica have ever been. If you really really want to, you can get any album for free still among other things.
And say what you want, Metallica can still pull of an awesome show and I have a lot of faith in their upcoming album. They're still one of the best bands of all time and their prime beats nearly any band out their today. Very few bands today could get the following the Metallica had and still has. People want to joke about their last couple albums, yet they will still sell out every show they play. And St Anger was a bad album, mainly due to the horrible trash can drums, but the rest have all been pretty damn good.
Jimiisama @ Aug 6th 2008 5:23PM
People act like piracy didn't exist before Napster.
EMaster @ Aug 6th 2008 5:33PM
I don`t know what reality Chuck lives in but those guys haven`t brought out a decent album in YEARS. The only reason fans still buy their albums is because they are fans. I do not think Metallica has gained a new audience since the early 90s and all those that attend now are people who live in the past who completely ignore the fact that the last few albums are shit. I used to like them until I realized they no longer stood by their signature sound and instead went for stuff that is listened to by the britney spears generation.
Get the same stuff off napster now?? Have you read my post??!! I CAN NOT get any early 90s true techno sets from 91-94 like the lutton festival that I could back then. I can not get the classic underground DnB albums I could back then and get all this without spyware, without having to worry about people seeding and without going to dodgy torrent sites. Maybe with the shit you listen to you might be able to get however mine doesn't fall under that category.
Doll @ Aug 6th 2008 5:36PM
Napster made the internet popular?
Lars @ Aug 6th 2008 6:54PM
There is a good point in this thread. Napster did provide access to a lot of great bootlegs and rarities that were nearly impossible to find by other means. Unfortunately that was the minority of content on Napster though. Of course it's a moot point now because you can easily get those things by other means, nowadays.
Roto13 @ Aug 6th 2008 9:24PM
It's the internet. Anyone who wants to make their music accessible can do so incredibly easily. Either with their own website, or via an online music store if they want to make some money off it, or even just uploading it to YouTube or making a torrent on one or several of the thousands of free torrent trackers out there.
EMaster @ Aug 6th 2008 3:28PM
I'm with copa on this one. What the hell have they done since then? I also beleive the whole naptser thing was a publicity stunt just so that Metalica would be back in the headlines. It has been 20 years since they produced anything listenable.
ChuckJ @ Aug 6th 2008 5:20PM
That's your opinion. An so far, based on your comments in this thread, your opinion is that of an idiot.
Jimiisama @ Aug 6th 2008 5:25PM
I don't know, Chuck; I will have to agree that their last good album was Master of Puppets 1985; And Justice for All had some good songs, but I wouldn't say I liked the whole album.
Jimiisama @ Aug 6th 2008 5:25PM
I don't know, Chuck; I will have to agree that their last good album was Master of Puppets 1985; And Justice for All had some good songs, but I wouldn't say I liked the whole album.
Duder @ Aug 6th 2008 5:38PM
Well, like Copa, you're a fucking tool. Yes, I know metal fans (people who predominantly enjoy metal over other genres) don't understand that there is a hell of a lot more music than one stupid, gone-to-hell genre. Load, for the record, is one of their best albums. It came out twelve years ago. And, for those of you that don't actually like Metallica (everyone who stopped listening after any album, even piss-poor St. Anger), ...And Justice for All isn't even the high point to compare anything they've done to, because Master of Puppets beats it at every turn.
EMaster @ Aug 6th 2008 5:39PM
It seems that Chuck is an even bigger idiot for even remotely thinking that Metallica is nearly as good as they were 20 years ago. I bet you donated to that website they had back then... what was it http://www.paylars.com/ in 2000 because you felt remotely guilty about the whole Napster thing and wanted to fill his phat pockets with more money. Not a Publicity stunt?? Let me ask you this. Who the fuck knew who Lars Ulrich was before this? I mean the general public to fans of the metal scene or anything. You know who he was? Just a drummer. Who was he after that? The friggin Beginning of why we have DRM in the first place and RIAA suing people for not making the Rich Richer and themselves noticed.
Duder @ Aug 6th 2008 6:01PM
I think Lars was introduced fairly well to the general public from all of their publicity during the Metallica release and subsequent three-and-a-half year tour. It also is highly obvious you don't have a memory for recent history. The entire reason Metallica had a problem with Napster, and it was the WHOLE band, Lars just being the member who represented their interests, was because there was a leak of I Disappear's working demo, which they didn't care for. It was leaked around a month before the official (and greatly improved) single for radio play, and, while they knew that Napster didn't send anybody to steal the demo, the company repeatedly refused to filter the file. As a result, radio stations picked up on the release and aired a subpar song. The refusal to filter was an issue for several artists. Many bands and musicians were actually okay with the service because of the exposure they were granted, Metallica included. Lars himself said, upon leaving the trial, that it was never about the money because he is, to paraphrase all his babbling, "fucking loaded." As for DRM, that was completely the RIAA's idea. Of course, it wasn't about protecting the artists or anything else involving integrity-it was about lining the pockets of the overpaid and musically uneducated fucks who run the business.
Shagittarius @ Aug 6th 2008 3:30PM
Megadeth - Rockband 2 exclusivity confirmed.
Tez (PSN: Tezasaurus) @ Aug 6th 2008 4:08PM
lol, exactly what I was thinking
ApolloIV @ Aug 6th 2008 4:17PM
Into the lungs of hell. That would make me shit bricks.
John @ Aug 6th 2008 3:30PM
I for one thought Guitar Hero: Aerosmith was a very fun game. The songs were all very entertaining and fun to play, if not a little easy. Plus, the achievements were way easier than GH3.
If GH: Metallica is going to be 30 different versions of "One" I'm going to pass because that song was next to impossible to beat. No sense in playing a game that I'm only going to get superpissed at. I liked Aerosmith's music even though I was never a "fan", and I'm sure I'd like Metallica's music too, but please, please, don't make all the songs as hard as "One."
Jimiisama @ Aug 6th 2008 5:26PM
Nothing in Guitar Hero is really that hard; especially since GH3 and onward had super-easymode timing.
John @ Aug 6th 2008 6:07PM
"One" and "Raining Blood" aren't hard? I've beaten them both on expert after too many tries, and they were both extremely hard. I don't mind a challenge, but those songs were pretty ridiculous.
Duke @ Aug 6th 2008 3:32PM
Duke won't confirm he's not buying Guitar Hero: Metallica (spoiler: it's not happening)
Roto13 @ Aug 6th 2008 3:40PM
I'll rent it if it has the Pat Boone version of Enter Sandman.
F1 & The day I beat Ghost and Goblins @ Aug 6th 2008 3:41PM
As long as they have Master of Puppets I'm happy. That's one of there best!
kastonie @ Aug 6th 2008 4:27PM
master of puppets will be the hardest song to play ever on any guitar simulation game from now until the end of time. of course if and when it ever comes out
Me @ Aug 6th 2008 3:47PM
This is "one" of the reasons I'm getting GH:WT.
Tez (PSN: Tezasaurus) @ Aug 6th 2008 4:08PM
Because there is going to be a seperate disc of Metallica songs they won't let you just download? Did you buy Guitar Hero 3 for the Aerosmith pack, too?
MV @ Aug 6th 2008 4:11PM
So is Activision's strategy now to keep releasing GH games based on washed up bands?
Me @ Aug 6th 2008 4:24PM
Metallica is not washed up. Their only flop was st anger.
J.Goodwin @ Aug 6th 2008 4:45PM
Commercial success isn't the same as being relevant.
ChuckJ @ Aug 6th 2008 5:23PM
What's your definition of relevant? Who is relevant today? Any time Metallica puts out an album or do a tour, they are relevant. Metallica is a rock icon, thus if any rock band gets a GH, they should.