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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Current mood:  crazy
Rock out to some of your favorite songs from 1980s supergroups such as Poison, the Police, Flock of Seagulls, and Quiet Riot in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.
The day prolific publisher Activision acquired Guitar Hero developer RedOctane, we knew we'd be seeing a whole lot more of the hard-rocking franchise that set rhythm gamers (and fret boards) on fire in late 2005. And we can't complain about the sudden appearance of the series' first offshoot, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, which franctically breathes life back into the decade that probably inspired the whole Guitar Hero concept in the first place. We recently had a chance to get our hands on the latest build of the game, due out solely on the PlayStation 2 in July, and found that while very little has changed since Guitar Hero II, the delightfully kitschy song selection that's on offer in this first Encore title more than justifies another Guitar Hero product hitting the shelves so soon.
We can't speak for the final game since it's not due out for a few weeks, but the version of Rocks the 80s that we've been playing seems more like an expansion pack for Guitar Hero II than a new game in its own right--but that's probably the aim of the Encore series anyway. You'll recognize returning characters and venues from the last game, since no new ones have been added. But the stuff that's in here has definitely gotten a proper '80s retrofitting. Burly axe man Axel Steel is sporting tight black jeans, a headband, and a wicked mullet, while Izzy Sparks has gone the glam route with spiked bracelets, a kerchief around his neck, and big blonde hair that would have made Farrah Fawcett blush. Heck, even the hyperkinetic animated intro movie from Guitar Hero II has been recolored in bright, '80s-style neon. At least you'll get plenty of new artwork around the menus and such that's appropriate to the period.
Mechanically, the game feels and plays just like its predecessor, with the series' standard progressive career mode, all the same cooperative and competitive two-player modes (with full bass or rhythm-guitar tracks for the second player), and the training mode that will let you practice up in slow motion on the many blazing riffs found on the set list. Neversoft may have taken over development of the Guitar Hero series for the upcoming third installment, but original game developer Harmonix is the only software house listed in the credits here (as this is probably the last project they completed for Activision before moving on to MTV's ambitious Rock Band). As such, all the note patterns, loading-screen humor, and other signature elements of the series feel just like vintage Guitar Hero.
Since everything else is more or less the same, the songs in Rocks the 80s are the real stars of the show, and the developers have assembled a pretty face-melting assortment of iconic '80s metal and glam rock, with even some bubblegum pop-rock and new wave thrown in for good measure. Unfortunately, we can only discuss the two sets of songs that have been announced so far, but even those are a pretty representative sampling of the game's overall track list.
We can't help getting especially giddy over some of the cheesiest '80s rock inclusions here, like Dio's "Holy Diver" and Ratt's "Round and Round," but then you've got stuff like "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow and absurdly coiffed new-wave sensation Flock of Seagulls with "I Ran (So Far Away)." That song and Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock" are also the two songs lifted directly from the master recordings that have been announced so far, but with Guitar Hero's cultural cachet increasing by the minute--not to mention the recent announcement of quite a few big-name original recordings planned for Guitar Hero III--we're hoping a few more originals sneak their way onto the list.
After the extremely high bar set by WaveGroup with the cover songs in the original game, we felt like Guitar Hero II had a few rough patches, with some not-quite-soundalike vocalists and song changes occasionally reminding you that you were indeed listening to a cover and not the original. We feel like the quality and similarity to the originals on the covers we've heard so far in Rocks the 80s are back to original form, and we couldn't help throwing up the horns and making silly rock faces once in a while when the solos kicked in on emblematic songs like Skid Row's "18 and Life" and Ratt's "Round and Round." Anybody who lived and rocked through the '80s is going to relive some happy (and probably embarrassing) moments with this one when it hits stores in July.
80s Guitar Hero golden, setlist finalized
Original recordings from Anthrax, X, Dead Kennedys, Winger, and more round out list of 30 new songs in Activision's upcoming PS2-exclusive game.
Like a syndicated weekly dance program from the decade it touts so highly, Activision's Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s is Solid Gold. Actually, the publisher today just announced that the game has "gone gold," saying development on the PlayStation 2 exclusive has finished and it should be on shelves July 24.
The publisher also released the last batch of the game's 30 songs, and as expected, Activision has secured the rights to use the original recordings of some popular songs by the original artists. The game's full setlist is reproduced below.
Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s is rated T for Teen and will be the last game in the series from original developers Harmonix. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater developer Neversoft is taking over the franchise beginning with Guitar Hero III, while Harmonix is preparing rival rhythm game Rock Band. Both titles are set for release later this year for multiple platforms.
Newly announced tracks:
"Caught in a Mosh" (as made famous by Anthrax)
"Balls to the Wall" (as made famous by Accept)
"Electric Eye" (by Judas Priest)
"Los Angeles" (as made famous by X)
"Police Truck" (as made famous by Dead Kennedys)
"We Got the Beat" (as made famous by The Go Go's)
"(I Think I'm) Turning Japanese" (as made famous by Vapors)
"Seventeen" (as made famous by Winger)
"Because, it's Midnite" (by Limozeen)
Previously announced tracks:
"Hold On Loosely" (as made famous by .38 Special)
"No One Like You" (as made famous by Scorpions)
"Only a Lad" (as made famous by Oingo Boingo)
"Ballroom Blitz" (as made famous by Krokus)
"The Warrior" (by Scandal)
"What I Like About You" (as made famous by The Romantics)
"Wrath Child" (as made famous by Iron Maiden)
"I Wanna Rock" (by Twisted Sister)
"I Ran" (by Flock of Seagulls)
"Round and Round" (as made famous by Ratt)
"Metal Health" (as made famous by Quiet Riot)
"Holy Diver" (as made famous by Dio)
"Heat Of The Moment" (as made famous by Asia)
"Radar Love" (as made famous by White Lion)
"18 and Life" (as made famous by Skid Row)
"Bathroom Wall" (as made famous by Faster Pussycat)
"Lonely is the Night" (as made famous by Billy Squier)
"Nothing But a Good Time" (as made famous by Poison)
"Play With Me" (as made famous by Extreme)
"Shaken" (as made famous by Eddie Money)
"Synchronicity II" (as made famous by The Police)
ALSO CHECK OUT THE NEW JOHNNY NAPALM HES ALL EMOED OUT GRRRR!!!
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Saturday, June 02, 2007
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***NEWS*** METALOCALYPSE
Current mood:  pissed off
i was on Brendon Smalls myspace page the creator of Metalocalypse and I heard this great news.
DETHALBUM RELEASE DATE- DVD RELEASE- METALOCALYPSE SEASON2 PREMIERE
DETHALBUM RELEASE DATE- DVD RELEASE- SEASON2 PREMIERE
You have waited long enough!
The DETHALBUM
a combination of FULL LENGTH tracks from the series and TOTALLY NEW SONGS will be out SEPTEMBER 25th 2007. Track listing and bonus features to follow soon!
THE METALOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN- SEASON 1 DVD
Loaded with hidden features will be out (1 week after CD) 2007. Exact date to follow.
AND METALOCALYPSE SEASON 2- THE NEXT CHAPTER
PREMIERING ON [ADULT SWIM] SEPTEMBER (1 week before the CD RELEASE- exact date to follow) 2007. TWENTY BRAND NEW EPISODES OF BRUTALITY.
Stay alive until then. And then you may go die.
NATHAN EXPLOSION,
Brendon
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
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2007 Van Halen Tour Confirmed
Current mood:  excited
Category: Music
2007 Van Halen Tour
The Van Halen summer tour with David Lee Roth exclusively revealed here last week has now been confirmed by the band's publicist. In a statement, the group said it would tour with David Lee Roth on vocals for the first time since 1984. Dates and cities have yet to be announced. "I am very excited to get back to the core of what made Van Halen," guitarist Eddie Van Halen said in a statement. Van Halen's 15-year-old son Wolfgang has stepped in for original bassist Michael Anthony in the new incarnation of the group, which also features drummer Alex Van Halen. The instrumentalists rehearsed with Roth in December to make sure the chemistry was right, and the parties then moved forward to sign a contract for 40 concerts this summer. Van Halen last toured in 2004 with vocalist Sammy Hagar, grossing nearly $40 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. Hagar refused to collaborate further with the Van Halen brothers after the tour's completion ("I don't get along with Eddie anymore, and that's all there is to it," he told Billboard.com in August 2005), although he has consistently played live with Anthony in recent years. The warring factions may wind up meeting in public in March when Van Halen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The summer tour is expected to be one of the most in-demand of the year, joining reunion outings from the Police and Crowded House, among others.
 
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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Guitar Hero II Updates !!!!!
Current mood:  amused
Category: Games
Release Dates
Guitar Hero II (w/ Classic Red SG)................11-7-2006 PlayStation 2 US
Guitar Hero II................................11-7-2006 PlayStation 2 US
Confirmed Songs
Main Songs:
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" By The Rolling Stones
"Them Bones" By Alice In Chains
"Laid To Rest" By Lamb Of God
"Misirlou" By Dick Dale
"Beast And The Harlot" By Avenged Sevenfold
"Jessica" By Allman Brothers Band
"Crazy On You" By Heart
"Tonight Im Gonna Rock You Tonight" By Spinal Tap
"Tattoed Love Boys" By The Pretenders
"Message In A Bottle" By The Police
"The New Black" By Every Time I Die
"Killing In The Name" By Rage Against The Machine
"Surrender" By Cheap Trick
"Heart Shaped Box" By Nirvana
"Freebird" By Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Sweet Child O' Mine" By Guns N' Roses
"Shout At The Devil" By Motley Crue
"Madhouse" By Anthrax
"Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart" By Stone Temple Pilots
"John the Fisherman" by Primus (Master Track)
"Psychobilly Freakout" by Reverend Horton Heat
"Strutter" by KISS
"War Pigs" by Black Sabbath
"Who Was in My Room Last Night?" by Butthole Surfers
"You Really Got Me" by Van Halen
"YYZ" by Rush
Bonus Tracks:
NEW"One For The Road" by The Breaking Wheel
"Arterial Black" by Drist
Confirmed Information
-Multiplayer will include a pro faceoff mode which will allow both players to play the exact same notes.
-The game will feature in-game endorsements and real world venues.
-The game will feature at least two new characters, a rockabilly character named Dax Deville and an un-named norwegian black metal.
-hammer-ons an pull offs have been tweaked. You will no longer have to hold down the lower frets to pull them off and the window of success for hammer-ons has been tweaked.
-The game will feature a new venue lighting system that sync up the music being played to the lighting.
-At least 55 songs total, 40 licensed songs, 15 indie/in-house songs
-3-button chords, meaning, holding down green+red+yellow, yellow+blue+orange, etc.
-Increased Difficulty
-Practice Mode will feature pre-set sections of songs where you can play, loop and even slow down the track to get used to the fingering.
-Guitar Hero I SG Controllers will be compatible with Guitar Hero II.
-A new multiplayer co-op mode allowing players to collaborate in order to beat songs, with each guitarist playing a separate guitar track. Available guitar tracks include lead, rhythm or bass tracks, depending upon the song. Cooperative players will also share star power, both guitars must be raised for it to be activated. Also, both players will share one life bar.
-Co-op is not the only new Multiplayer Mode. Players can now play: Co-op (different instruments for each player), Traditional Versus (both players trading off notes), Full Versus (both players playing all notes), Survival (most likely play as long as you can without missing a single note, or trying to pass as many songs as possible on a single energy meter), and Handicapped Matches (one player has an advantage over the other).
-Career Mode has been changed, to quote an inside press release: "Players can now experience the feeling of going from an unsigned band to Rock-Stardom via artist endorsements."
-The Bass guitar will make deep clink and chunk sounds when you make a mistake, just like the regular guitars.
-Marcus Henderson has stated in an interview that "Heavy metal will get its due in Guitar Hero II".
Rumors and Pure Speculation
-A song by Aerosmith. According to Tommy Tallarico in a post on an IGN board "Harmonix (& Guitar Hero) ROCKS!! I helped Harmonix & RedOctane to get some of my relatives music for GH II (you may know who I'm talking about)." According to Wikipedia Steven Tyler is Tommy Tallarico's cousin.
Link: http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=4142&p=8
-A song by The Toadies. The Toadies "Possum Kingdom" was supposed to be in the original Guitar Hero but was bumped last second for "Cowboys From Hell". We can expect RedOctane to make up for this by putting "Possum Kingdom" or another song by The Toadies in Guitar Hero 2.
Link: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/701/701726p3.html
-A song by Voivod. The bands drummer issued the following statement in an update "In other news we were asked by the makers of the Guitar Hero Game if we would let them use a song for GH2, so after some thought we could see no wrong in having two million kids learn Piggy's riff on a Playstation!"
Link: http://www.bravewords.com/news/49769
-"Killing In The Name Of" By Rage Against The Machine. In the latest Official Playstation Magazine (Sept 06) on page 26 it talks about Raul Renteria, a QA tester who is very good at the game. "To prove this, Renteria played Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing in the Name' on Expert with his back to the screen, racking up a near perfect score."
Link: http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=4142&p=4
-"The New Black" By Every Time I Die. During their performance at the Vans Warped tour Keith Buckley, vocalist for the band, stated that their song "The New Black" would be featured in Guitar Hero 2.
Link: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/716/716477p1.html
-A song by DragonForce. When a band is documented playing Guitar Hero, speculation is bound to arise. Much like Danny Carey from Tool, and The Darkness, the two guitarists for power metal band "Dragonforce" were spotted playing Guitar Hero. DragonForce is a much requested band for Guitar Hero II, and one must conclude that the thought enters the band's minds that they could possibly appear in a sequel to the game that they are playing.
Link: http://video.ugo.com/player.aspx?articleID=18924
-A song by Tenacious D. "An official list of new music tracks hasn't been released yet, but PSM was told that we shouldn't be surprised to see some Tenacious D in the game."
Link: http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=3527 Original info is in PSM.
-A song by Buckethead. Last year, Marcus Henderon said the following quote: "Without going too much into detail, i'll just say this. Buckethead is very much in our plans for GH2. How? who knows... Where? you'll find out... Why? Cuz he's Buckethead. period."
Link: http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=546
-A song by Descendents. Marcus Henderson, who recorded songs in both games is also on the song choice committee for Guitar Hero II, he stated in an interview that he has "been in dialogue with Bill Stevenson, their legendary drummer, and I totally want to get them in the game". So we will see what comes out of that. Descendants are an influential early Punk Rock band.
Link: http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/guitar-hero-2/703854p1.html
-A song by Tool - MTV.com stated that Tool are "in talks to be featured in the forthcoming "Guitar Hero 2" video game".
Link: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1531583/20060511/tool.jhtml
EDIT: I have confirmed with RedOctane that Tool and RedOctane have spoken regarding having a song in the game. Nothing has been decided as of 5/18/06.
-"Wasted Years" by Iron Maiden
Marcus Henderson said the following line, though, it's worded largely rhetorical: "I LOVE MAIDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my favorite bands ever. How would you guys feel about Wasted Years in GH2?"
Link: http://forum.guitarherogame.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=603
-"For Those About To Rock" by AC/DC - RedOctane issued a press release for Guitar Hero II, and the title of the release is "For Those About to Rock With Guitar Hero II, We Salute You! RedOctane Announces Fall US Tour Date" Of course, the first sentence of the title are lyrics and the name of a song by AC/DC. The song has not been confirmed, but it seems odd to make such a possible hint if it was unfounded.
Link: http://www.redoctanegames.com/2_press/viewer.asp?screen=2006-04-17_gh2announce.html
-White, Green, Yellow, and Sexy Pink SG controllers were all seen at E3 2006. However, these could be custom made controllers that will never see the light of day.
Appendix
This thread is to be used as a reference to answer common and repeated questions about Guitar Hero II. It will be updated periodically as news breaks. If you have comments or changes, send me a private message or an instant message via AIM.
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
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Gene Simmons: Family Jewels Schedule
Current mood:  scared
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
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Under the Blade
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Twisted Sister
Release date: 02 November, 1999
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Poison and Cinderella
Current mood:  chipper
Category: Music
Thats right the 20 year anniversary tour POISON featuring Cinderella and Endeverafter. The concert fuckin rocked .
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
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Hard Rock This or That !!!!!!!
Current mood:  uncomfortable
Heavy Metal Test
This or that-- HARD ROCK STYLE!
30 Questions, you can DO IT!
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Iron Maiden or Judas Priest: = IRON MAIDEN FUR SURE!!!
Malmsteen, Satriani, or Vai: Malmsteen
Glam, Thrash, or Classic Metal: Glam
Punk, Psycadelic, or Classic Rock: Classic rock
Ozzy or Dio: Dio
Beatles or Stones: Stones
Pearl Jam or Nirvana: Pearl Jam
Motley Crue or Guns N' Roses: Crue
Poison or Cinderella: They bothkickass thatswhy im gonna see them together July 19th!!!
Van Halen or KISS: Edward the fuckin great and space ace they both rule but KISS is my favorite band dude.
Zeppelin or The Who: Who
Lita or Doro: Lita
Whitesnake or Skid Row: The fuckin Skids.
Megadeth or Metallica: Megadeth
Sammy or Dave: Cabo Wabo Hagar!!!!!!!!
Mustaine or Hammet: Mustaine
Alice Cooper or KISS: Alice is Fuckin Insane but again KISS is my fav dude.
Deep Purple or Black Sabbath: Sabbath
Randy, Jake, or Zakk: Zakk
Lynyrd Skynyrd or Ted Nugent: The Nuge
Faster Pussycat or LA Guns: Faster Pussycat
Def Leppard or The Cars: Def Leppard
Testament or Exodus: Testament
Boston or Foreigner: Boston
Slayer or Pantera: Pantera
Queensrÿche, Dream Theater: Dream Theater
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Open Up and Say...Ahh!
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Poison
Release date: 25 October, 1990
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KISS Army Rocks the hall !!!!
Current mood:  hot
Category: Music
Its true dudes we the KISS Army have a whopping 2 months left till we rock the Fuckin Hall!!!!
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