Metallica to Star in Next Major Guitar Hero?

Many readers have written in to let us know Metallica may be the star of the next major installment to the Guitar Hero franchise. "Edward Woo, a Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst, was going through some SEC filings from Activision, and found the following plan. 'In fiscal 2009, we plan to publish Guitar Hero: On Tour for the NDS; Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: Metallica, and Guitar Hero IV across multiple platforms,' the report read. Since the fiscal year ends March 31, 2009, it doesn't sound like we have long to wait for this title. That's four Guitar Hero games coming in the next year. How many can the market take?"

Comments

Re:Who cares

[Chabo]

I wore my "...And Justice For All" t-shirt to the last metal show I went to, and I overheard two guys talking about it behind me, trying not to let me hear:

Guy1: Aww, Metallica? They fucking suck!
Guy2: Wait dude, that's Justice. They were awesome in the 80s.
Guy1: Really?
Guy2: Yeah, go listen to Justice or Puppets, don't forget they had a bunch of other albums before St. Anger.

RockBand has *old* Metallica

[steeljaw]

I don't like anything Metallica has done since the black album (and yes of course this includes their assault on Napster and Metallica fans). Rockband currently has the following Metallica tracks available:
* Enter Sandman
* Ride the Lightning
* Blackened
* And Justice...

All of their new music has become radio friendly and lost it's edge, so I would be less likely to buy a game that features their newer content...

Re:Who cares

[jgarra23]

My faith was restored, so to speak, by Some Kind of Monster, and I am still a fan, but not as much as I used to be.
I'm actually surprised by this comment. While I thoroughly enjoyed SKoM, I had a completely different experience from it.

I saw a band that was really a clique (Hammet, Hetfield & Ulrich) in disguise, ganging up on Dave Mustaine and throwing him out, ultimately alienating and doing the same to Jason Newsted and ultimately turning on itself when they ran out of punching bags. They also non-verbally admitted their bad-rep amongst the metal world by having to bribe Robert Trujillo under the guise of giving him a million bucks to join when really it's that the only people who were willing to audition just didn't have the talent to play live riffs (Danny Lohner? Gimme a break, he's WAAAY overrated).

There are other issues but then I'll just be going on & on... it's really sad because I really enjoy their pre-Black music. I'll never forget that I was actually excited before Load came out. I was so excited... man... I don't even know what to say about all that. I wrote them off when they sued their fans. I don't really care- it's like an abusive relationship with them always. They will use you up until they can't squeeze any more out and then they will sue you for the rest. You want to have a side project? Fuck you.

None of that anger is reflect towards parent post :) I wish I was as forgiving as you in that respect.

Re:There are all varieties of reason to hate them

[Nightspirit]

I think my hatred is more of a generational type thing. As a teen in the 90s, metal was actually pretty mainstream for quite some time with the release of the Black album. Then rap and alternative started to explode and (mainstream) metal started to die. Us metal-heads were looking for one good Metallica album to come out to save the genre and then they cut their hair and released Load; essentially the death kneel for the metal era. Now, I know lots of good metal was being released at the time, but at the time I would have rather heard metal on the radio rather than nirvana for the 1000th time. Then nu-metal came and that's an entirely different story.

Re:Who cares

[Lonewolf666]

Metallica were indeed of one of the founders of thrash metal, and in their earlier years I count them among the best musicians in the genre (as it was back then). Certainly up to "Justice For All", and the Black Album was OK too.

But after that, they sort of lost their drive and did some so-so hard rock stuff. I think they never quite recovered from that, and the metal scene in general has produced a lot of really good bands since.
Overall I think thrash/speed/black metal has grown up some and it is more difficult these days to stand out. The Metallica from the 80s would still count as good band but I don't think they could reach superstar status anymore.