Calling Metal-Heads and Fans of Guitar Hero.

[Scrythe]

Before you get the firing squad, allow to admit that I am a metalhead. Now the blasphemy:

Sure, I get annoyed that a lot of Guitar Hero songs feature "flavor of the month" bands, but isn't the point of these games to entertain as many musical demographics as possible? I mean, the closest thing to a Guitar Hero: Metal was Guitar Hero: Metallica, and I'm perfectly content with that.

When Harmonix released a bunch of country songs, I didn't join the masses screaming "THIS IS ROCK BAND NO JUGS AND BANJO BAND!" and instead thought to myself "Hmm, maybe I can take the time to attempt to appreciate the music my cowboy father listens to" and, to be honest, it was fun. Yes, fun. Remember that?

Now if Activision and Harmonix only appealed to just the metalheads, the games would get quite boring after a few years, and no one would play it with you because believe it or not, not many people (even my age) know who Black Sabbath is, or even Guns 'N Roses. (to quote a fellow Rock Band bandmate: "Ozzy Osborne was in Black Sabbath?")

So when I stick my Metal-loving cock into the games, alongside a drummer who listens to screamo, a bassist who listens to emo, and a vocalist who only listens to Top 40 songs and Jonathan Coulton, we all agree to keep some form comprimise.

Especially if that comprimise is "We play 'Stay Alive' only once a night."

 

[MagicShroom]

OH, and please post some bands that you think should be on there. Avoid Groove, Nu, -Core, and Grind.

1st off, Grind is not Metal (it's punk)
2nd, why not Groove you biased bastard
3rd, there are some good core (actually only math-)
4th, I understand Nu-

other than that

Dillinger Escape Plan (Mathcore/Experimental)
Meshuggah (technical death metal)
Gojira (technical death metal)
Alestorm (Power/Folk)
The Sword (Doom)

 

[VitalSigns]

OH, and please post some bands that you think should be on there. Avoid Groove, Nu, -Core, and Grind.

1st off, Grind is not Metal (it's punk)
2nd, why not Groove you biased bastard
3rd, there are some good core (actually only math-)
4th, I understand Nu-

other than that

Dillinger Escape Plan (Mathcore/Experimental)
Meshuggah (technical death metal)
Gojira (technical death metal)
Alestorm (Power/Folk)
The Sword (Doom)

good points. Dillinger is incredible

I like Deathcore a lot, I also think there are some hardcore bands who would work well in guitar hero.

Endwell
Whitechapel
Means
Suicide Silence
Misery Signals
etc.

 

[mooncalf]

...This idea lacks mettle.

 

[Dantes Alaska]

sounds like a fantasimic fuckin idea, i would definitely buy it

 

[omgwaffles]

Before Carbonel gets in here, Dream Theater.

And if they make Cello Hero, Apocalyptica.

Dream Theater all the way.

 

[dnnydllr]

Or you could just learn to play a real guitar instead.

Good idea. A hundred bucks will get you a fake guitar and a game. A little more will get you a real guitar and everything you need to get started.

 

[Godhead]

Iron Maiden
Pantera
Slayer
Alestorm
Amon Amarth
Hammerfall
Megadeth
Motorhead
Children of Bodom
In Flames
Job for a Cowboy
(even though people will yell at me) Dethklok
Dio
Ozzy Osbourne
and System of a Down

 

[A big red rooster]

Reality check: Which is going to make more money: Guitar hero: Disney Stars' Greatest hits, or Guitar Hero: Metal?

If there will ever be metal on guitar hero, it will be through custom tracks people create and post on youtube.

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

Rock Band does a good job to attempt to cover all bases of music. The Mayhem pack that recently came out is a good example of metal that people would probably want. Rather than a new game covering one area of music, have DLC focused on it. Rock Band is opening up their tool kits to people to make songs to upload. This meaning you should be bugging your favorite bands to open their music to a new digital media outlet and boost their sales.

 

[stiver]

All I want is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

They could make GH:Rime of the Ancient Mariner and charge full price for all i care, i would love to play that song.

 

[lemonofdoom2]

Gorod (Technical Death Metal)
Psycroptic (Technical Death Metal)
Necrophagist (Technical Death Metal)
Atheist (Technical Death/Thrash)
Diablo Swing Orchestra (Avant-Garde Metal)
Hieronymus Bosch (Progressive Death Metal)
Vintersorg (Progressive Folk Metal)
Finntroll (Folk Metal)
Nokturnal Mortum (Black Metal)
Obscura (Technical Death Metal)
Codeon (Technical Death Metal)
Symbyosis (Technical Death Metal)
Symphony X (Neoclassical Metal)
Turisas (Folk Metal)
Children of Bodom (Melodic Death Metal - I really don't like these guys, but they would help the game get sold)
Artillery (Technical Thrash Metal)
Annihilator (Thrash Metal)
Coroner (Technical Thrash Metal)
Nevermore (Thrash/Progressive Metal)
Liquid Tension Experiment (Progressive Metal)

you had me at finntroll. throw some As I Lay Dying in there and i'd play it. But I don't think Activision would market this game. Only because they're too bust hacking the franchise with terrible bands like Metallica and Aerosmith. Give me Guitar Hero: Bad Religon or something anyday.

 

[lemonofdoom2]

Here's some of the songs i'd like to see make it in.

"Trollhammeran" by Finntroll
"Valhall Awaits" by Amon Amarth
"Through Struggle" by As I Lay Dying
and everysingle Dethklok song off the Dethalbum.

 

[crazy-j]

Iron Maiden
Pantera
Slayer
Alestorm
Amon Amarth
Hammerfall
Megadeth
Motorhead
Children of Bodom
In Flames
Job for a Cowboy
(even though people will yell at me) Dethklok
Dio
Ozzy Osbourne
and System of a Down

i like this one!

iron maiden + ozzy + amon amarth + dio = something worth biblical reference!

 

[Computer-Noob]

Tired of sitting through boring crappy songs on your Guitar Hero/Rock Band game, and when the one song you like comes up, it's not even that great? Don't buy the game next time.

I think for most people, if a large portion of GH songs were metal, the above sentence would apply to them.

I also think its funny how there are so many "types" of metal . Its almost as if every metal band is trying to be "that new, different, edgy sound" and in order for that to happen they have to give themselves their own genre. Why the need to have so many "types"? For most of the part, they dont even sound all that different.

Or you could just learn to play a real guitar instead.

What? C'mon, that's just a rude thing to say, people enjoy these games, no need to chastise them like a jerk.

Hardly as rude as claiming the only good music is metal, and that you need not like anything else.

As this OP said above.

That was rude but that doesn't make you any better.

When you consider the legitimacy of what he said, I dont even see how its rude at all.

 

[GoldenCondor]

Reality check: Which is going to make more money: Guitar hero: Disney Stars' Greatest hits, or Guitar Hero: Metal?
If there will ever be metal on guitar hero, it will be through custom tracks people create and post on youtube.

I guess I was a bit bias with my decisions.
Groove metal is none the less still metal, and some of the most popular bands are groove metal, and popularity + game = money.
And this comment made me laugh really hard, because i know it's true.

 

[Guitar Gamer]

I hope your not saying that metalica isn't metal, yeah the single band guitar hero games kinda blew but matalica (at least their older stuff) is how I define heavy metal (at least by standerds of old)

and how could I forget? [HEADING=1]DETHKLOK[/HEADING]

 

[This-is-Hip-Hop]

The problem I see with an exclusively metal based Guitar Hero/Rock Band game is concreting the game into a Niche Market. The past selling victories of the games were mostly based off mixing well known bands, (Beastie Boys, Lynard Skynard) with lesser known Bands (Tokio Hotel to name the only one I remeber). On top of that, mixing a variety of Ballads, Rock, Hard Rock, and Metal, now correct me if im wrong, but that has a wider market then just Metal Fans (I have never fanatically played the games.)

-This-is-Hip-Hop

 

[pakker]

Why make a genre dedicated game and leave out some sub-genres? Basicly what you want is an "all the bands I think would be cool on Guitar Hero"-game.. Every GH/RB/plasic instrment-game player have had this thought.

My idea, radical as it may be, make a new GH, split the caree up so you can chose several paths for your band to follow, Metal/Pop/Folk/Jazz/whatever you want your band to be, this would also make you avoid the situation where you have 4 people on stage, in black, with spikes, warpaint singing the into-tune to Barbie on a dreamland roflcoaster of happyness..

I mean, the caree in GH3 was lengthy enough for me, GH4 dragged out along the way, with way too many songs no-one gave a shit for....

If I had the option to pick a metal path for my band, i would do so, but return to the other lanes to explore music.. There are gold in other genres. Besides metal is a very guitar/drum strong genre with some cool bass now and then, but well, not alot of bands in the genre would have anyone wanting to sing, making one of the gameplay options rather fail, opposed to the idea of the 12-year old school girl would like to actually have a mic and sing Britney like they were on stage.

Make an open game with more (no pun intended) smash hits from various bands and gernes.

The key word is varity, dont make it too onesided with obscure bands, I mean if i saw your track list i would be .. what the h.. I dont know shit about these bands and what their solos are like (beside CoB), I like metal, i like some pop, i like some rock, i like some punk.. I'd rather play Enter Sandman on GH than my favorite obscure metal song, cus well its like being freakin' metallica and awesomely famous and cool (come'on, run with it).

Fact about me: I don't play the guitar, but dont tell me to do it, cus then im telling your child to stop playing the Sims and go out and build a house, furnish it, get a job, make friends and raise a family with a start budget of 20.000$...

 

[sabercrusader]

dude metallica is awesome and no i dont have a list but they should make a guitar hero iron maiden also stop milking the seies activision i mean come on 4 already out a just one month pasy half year come on.