Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero: December DLC

by Griffin McElroy on Nov 30th 2009 11:30AM

Activision is pulling out a majority of the stops for the last month of 2009, adding a highly varied assortment of tracks to Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero throughout the next 31 days. Included are track packs from OneRepublic and The Fall of Troy, an "Indie Rock" pack which includes songs from Spoon, Pavement and Nada Surf, a "New Years Rock" pack which features music from Taylor Swift, Maroon 5 and No Doubt, and finally, a totally free song which will arrive shortly before the holidays: Steve Ouimette's version of "Hark The Herald Angels Sing."

These songs follow the franchise's usual DLC pricing structure: Each single track will cost 160

($2, 200 Wii Points), while each track pack will cost 440

($5.50, 550 Wii Points). For a full list of song titles and release dates, just click past the break.
December 3 -- The Fall of Troy Track Pack

"Panic Attack" by The Fall of Troy
"A Classic Case of Transference" by The Fall of Troy
"Single" by The Fall of Troy

December 12 -- OneRepublic Track Pack

"All The Right Moves" by OneRepublic
"Everybody Loves Me" by OneRepublic
"Mercy" by OneRepublic

December 17 -- Indie Rock Track Pack

"Hi-Speed Soul" by Nada Surf
"Cut Your Hair" by Pavement
"Sister Jack" by Spoon

December 22 -- Christmas Rock Pack (Free!)

"Hark The Herald Angels Sing" by Steve Ouimette

December 22 -- Celebrity New Years Rock Track Pack

"Our Song" by Taylor Swift
"Harder to Breathe" by Maroon 5
"New" by No Doubt

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Tags: activision, band-hero, dlc, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-5, guitar-hero-monthly, Microsoft, nadasurf, neversoft, Nintendo, onerepublic, pavement, spoon, the-fall-of-troy, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (46)

To be honest, I see NOTHING that appeals to me for the month of December.

Well, thanks for being honest.

Please familiarize yourself with Spoon. You're welcome.

Spoon is too generic. Its like a someone asked for a rock band that plays moderate alternative rock songs and spoon was like, "Oh, we can do that."

They are nothing special.

Then maybe you should get a taste in music. I agree that most of that DLC sucks, but there's no denying the awesomeness of Spoon, Nada Surf, and Pavement.

I really don't even want to buy dlc for guitar hero. I already have all my downloaded songs on rockband and I don't want to take the risk of buying the song on here for it then to just come out on rockband because I already have around 25 on rockband that me and my brother bought. Anyways none of these songs interest me, actually almost no downloadable songs for guitar hero interest me at all.

@ the adventures of Ceseria across the 8th dimension

I just wiki'd spoon its something you use to eat. Like a fork or a spork or a knife!

For yet another year they dash my hopes of a Steve Ouimette version of "Carol of the Bells". It would be the TSO version times A THOUSAND!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JFfN5pKzFU

Deaftly...you win, my friend. Well-met.

If Jeff Goldblum says it, THEN IT MUST BE SO.

Wow... there's absolutely nothing I would want here.. as always. I prefer the Guitar Hero franchise over Rock Band.. but at least Rock Band has so much better DLC.

Ugh, the only song I would want is New by No Doubt, it's the only song not available in the Single Track Pack on Rock Band, and I think it would be really fun.

New is definately in Rock Band.

It's on Rock Band dude. Get it for the better game.

It is on Rock Band, but it isn't part of the album track pack (it was released separately).

I remember checking for it one time and not seeing it, but I just checked Wiki and it's listed. Thanks so much guys, you saved me from buying either of these shitty games to play one song. I award each of you 1 internets. :D

Ummm...how about the rest of those GHWT and GHSH imports Activision? It's been THREE MONTHS since any kind of update. Your DLC team is teh suck.

The only thing that makes me think Activision does care about the hardcore fans is Steve Ouimette. Hint: HMX, get that dude and I'll happily hump into the "RB DLC rux GH DLC sux" bandwagon.

Spoon? Nada Surf? PAVEMENT?! GH got all of these before Rock Band? Are you effing kidding me?!

Well played, Activision. (I'm still not buying your inferior game, but well played.)

100% Agree. I guess we can only hold out hope. :)

I'm sorry, but are you being sarcastic?

If you think I'm being sarcastic, you've obviously never heard any of those bands before.

The plus side is that Harmonix might release more than one song by each band.

I really want some Spoon in my Rock Band.

I meant the plus side of Guitar Hero getting them so fast, where as Rock Band usually gets whatever good stuff Guitar Hero has later.

How did I leave that much out of my comment?

"If you think I'm being sarcastic, you've obviously never heard any of those bands before."

Either that, or he listens to generic butt rock.

I know! It's ridiculous.

The only good thing is that the Spoon track isn't from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.

I'm a huge fan of Fall of Troy, but also more of a Rock Band dude...I think I'll wait until GH5 is in the bargain bid before I pick it up.

another month of fail

It continues to amaze me how bad the Guitar Hero DLC offerings are. Last week Rock Band got live tracks from Tom Petty and this week it's getting Nirvana.

Ooo, Pavement!
Boo, Guitar Hero.

At this point, I only care about GH DLC because it might predict future songs/artists for Rock Band. Pavement, Nada Surf, and Spoon would all be nice.

Another month where I don't have to worry about being tempted to buy a GH game because of DLC. The Rock Band DLC barely goes a week without taunting me with awesome music. Plus they release almost this many songs per week, so there is a much better chance of stuff I want.

Also, I mean awesome music that I listen to. There could be good music there, its just not for me.

What I find interesting is that Rock Band seems to be making a much more concerted effort to get out DLC in a timely manner. For me the draw of Rock Band was that it had a far better DLC catalogue plus very frequent updating of new material. Guitar Hero on the other hand had very little material and what did come out was often "meh" at best. It seems they've learnt from Rock Band (arguably again) and seem to be trying to put out more DLC on a more regular basis. DLC has meant very large numbers for Rock Band (can't find the source any more but if I remember rightly it was a very large number of millions of dollars.) Let's see if this translates to numbers for Activision, they just need to stop pumping out new GH games every 3 months.

While I agree the consistency of Harmonix, which has led to the sheer size of Rock Band's catalog, is indeed better, it seems commonplace for people to say that Guitar Hero's music is "meh" while Rock Band's is better. While I know the difference between fact and opinion, of latter of which this comparison boils down to, it seems like people believe that the music is objectively better. I could be wrong is this observation of course.

Music is opinion only. The only case I can really say that music would be bad is if there was no adherence to any commonly held music theory, and even that varies between cultures (eastern music theory =/= western music theory).

Harmonix does put a lot more effort, however, in adding variety to their large DLC list. Plus, they're on the verge of allowing 3rd parties to develop and release music on their store. That could, potentially, increase the catalog drastically. On the other hand, it could tank as an idea and musicians don't go for it, but we'll see. Maybe the record companies will get greedy and throw it into contracts.

Oh, I'm rambling now.

Its amazing how poor the GH DLC is and how regularly excellent the RB DLC is.

Other than a bit early over-reliance on metal, RB DLC is the gold standard.

GHEY I THOUGH THAT WAS PANIC ATTACK BY DREAM THEATER

It's already on RB2

If Hark the Herald Angels Sing is half as awesome as We Three Kings from GHIII, then it will definitely be worth the rest of this month being lame.

And I never got New for RB2, so I'll probably pick it up for the superior platform of GH5.

But in general, I agree with most people here that Neversoft needs to step up their DLC offerings. RB isn't exactly a powerhouse of quality DLC either, but at least they put out a lot.

Why would announce an entire month of fail all at once? Don't you want people to buy your game at x-mas? Astro Zombies was the LAST GH song I gave a damn about.

A 'The Fall of Troy' pack, yet nothing from Doppelganger?

Fuck you, Activision, fuck you.

Mother fuckers. How the hell does GH get Pavement before RB?

ack they all suck

Really GH? Another month of (mostly) shit!? Guitar Hero needs to start releasing more heavier songs, like more metal. GH5 had 3 metal songs on the disk, 3! Where is all of the Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, System of a Down, Dream Theater, All that Remains, Killswitch Engage, and Trivium?!!? They also could use some more Alternative/Punk Rock/Metal like Lostprophets, Silverstein, Aiden, and Rise Against! Throwing a pack of songs by any of these bands in each month would make the months DLC look good. The only thing that shows they actually give a tiny bit about their hadcore fans is the Steve Ouimette tracks, and if they REALLY cared they would convert The Devil went Down To Georgia and We Three Kings for GH5! I play Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero 5 and love both, GH5 has better gameplay while RB2 has better music. Well this is all opinion, but if you agree I HIGHLY suggest contacting Activision and just telling them you want better bands in their game. If you want to help get better DLC in here, contact them at "suggestions@guitarhero.com".

Merry christmas to all, and to all shut the hell up!

I'm pretty sure Guitar Hero advertises "Iconic artists" and "Rock anyway you want".

Yeaaaah.......most of it is slow/indie/alternative rock.

And lets be honest, most of the GH5 track list is modern boring stuff, heck it's even got HIP HOP in there, way to appeal to the right crowd there Activision.

Also on topic, why have I never heard of any of the guitar hero DLC pretty much?

Fall of Troy....

FINALLY! I've been waiting soo long for one of the two games to release a track pack for them. I'm so glad that GH5 did it first.

Wow, I've never heard of any of those bands, except the final, awful three.

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