Rock Band Weekly: Avenged Sevenfold, Juanes

Heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold joins Grammy award-winning Latin superstar Juanes' debut as Rock Band DLC next week. The song pack will include the group's title track from the album Nightmare, along with "Seize the Day" from City of Evil and "Scream" from Avenged Sevenfold.

Like Juanes, Avenged Sevenfold will also be featured in Rock Band 3's on-disc track collection, releasing later this year. Head past the break if you juanes see next week's DLC details.

Xbox 360 / Wii / PS3
Available: July 27

Juanes Pack 01 -- (800 MSP / $9.99):

"A Dios le Pido" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Fíjate Bien" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Gotas de Agua Dulce" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"La Camisa Negra" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Mala Gente" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Yerbatero" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

Avenged Sevenfold Pack 01 -- (440 MSP / $5.49):

"Nightmare" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Scream" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Seize the Day" (160 MSP / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

Note: Track packs not available for purchase on Wii; all tracks sold individually.

Reader Comments (31)

IT'S YOUR F*CKNG NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!!

Joystick,... I see what you did there!

Any week with Avenged Sevenfold is a good week for me day 1 purchase :D

@thevoid I told my wife to wait on Scream for Guitar Hero, because they would probably put up a better pack on Rock Band soon. And what happens? Scream, plus two other songs that aren't on other games! Oh well, looks like I am buying it again. For RB I really don't mind paying twice, but I should have known better. I even recall mentioning how it would work especially well if it dropped the same day as the new album. I hate being five minutes ahead of my time.

Since when was Avenged Sevenfold known to be on the RB3 soundtrack?

That is either an error, an assumption or a revelation that Joystiq is a vast and malevolent cabal intent on manipulating the content and flow of global videogame information in the twenty-first century.

I'm going to go with the first one.

@KampfVerein

'“We hope kids are excited to play these songs in Rock Band and to experience more of our music in a different way coming on the Rock Band 3 disc,” said M. Shadows, lead vocalist of Avenged Sevenfold.'

@Coldplay619

Ah, a press release. Figures.

Downloadable tracks this week, new album next week. Good time to be an A7X fan.

I'm curious; will the entire backlog of RB songs get an update to get charting for vocal harmonies, keytar/board sections/parts, and the pro guitar difficult levels?

Or is it only the disc and DLC going forward when RB3 drops?

@def PD

Outside of Green Day, disc and DLC going forward

@def PD

I think they've hinted or said that some will; but it's ridiculous to think that all 1000+ songs will get redone.

@Acosta02

I'm fine with that. I wouldn't mind paying an extra 50 cents to get an "update" on certain songs.

I bet if Harmonix goes this route (updating backlog songs) they'll pick the most popular/downloaded songs.

@def PD
At this stage Harmonix has said no to updates on old songs, but they said they might look into it later.

Looks like I have to buy rockband now, damn you Juanes!

Yes yes...eso es todo!

Rock Band needs more latin music! How about some Café Tacuba or Soda Stereo?

@ArenzanaSG Upvoted for Soda Stereo.

FUERZA CERATI!

@ArenzanaSG
CAMILAAAA

In honor of the Rev. May he rest in peace.

It was about time they added some Latin Rock music with Juanes

Que bien!

@Grimcicle Maybe not, if you're obsessed with breaking music down into endless sub-genre's so that what you listen to can feel special to you and those whom you feel are worthy of it in order to elevate your self-esteem... for the rest of us it's fine to just call it metal.

wow first Juanes, now Avenge sevenfold too... damn out of like a 4 month spending recession for me i will come back with a bang... last song i bought was Mordecai

@Grimcicle rar, go back to listening to your long-hair, no money-making metal bands then.

Have these music games reached a point where everyone you would want is already on either GH or RB? It seems like they are really scraping the barrel now. Now tell me Prince is coming to RB or GH then I'd get excited again.

@malexandria1 I don't think Prince wants his songs to be distributed digitally; he thinks the internet is dead, you see. :\

@malexandria1

They're probably saving some big artists/songs until after RB3 is released.

I'm going to pick this up just because EVERYONE has Afterlife online so this is going to be a popular pick too

@Code Supreme commenter
if you're listening to bands because they make more money than other bands, then you're doing music wrong.

Tears for Fears and Marilyn Manson confirmed for RB3... damn I want the full setlist.

@Grimcicle I'm an Avenged Sevenfold fan, and I'll be the first to agree with you that Avenged Sevenfold is not a metal band. Their first two albums were metalcore, the third (City of Evil) was heavy metal in a throwback to 80s heavy metal kind of way, and since then they're a hard rock band.

THAAAAAANK YOU Rock Band people. Less Hannah Montana / Lady Gaga, more A7X!

Glad you got it right this time!

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Rock Band Weekly: Avenged Sevenfold, Juanes

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