Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, the sixth instalment (not including the DS versions) in the Guitar Hero franchise - promised to be a return to the series' roots, having fun to play guitar songs, and good old fashioned rock 'n' roll, with killer riffs and intense solos, has now released it's full 90 song strong setlist:
- A Perfect Circle - "The Outsider"
- Aerosmith - "Cryin'"
- AFI - "Dancing Through Sunday"
- Alice Cooper - "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
- Alter Bridge - "Ties That Bind"
- Anberlin - "The Feel Good Drag"
- Anthrax - "Indians"
- Arch Enemy - "Nemesis"
- Atreyu - "Ravenous"
- Avenged Sevenfold - "Bat Country"
- Bad Brains - "Re-Ignition (Live)"
- Band Of Skulls - "I Know What I Am"
- Black Sabbath - "Children Of The Grave"
- Blind Melon - "Tones Of Home"
- Blue Öyster Cult - "Burnin' For You"
- Bush - "Machinehead"
- Buzzcocks - "What Do I Get?"
- Children Of Bodom - "If You Want Peace... Prepare For War"
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Fortunate Son"
- The Cure - "Fascination Street"
- Deep Purple - "Burn"
- Def Leppard - "Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)"
- Dethklok - "Bloodlines"
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants"
- Dire Straits - "Money For Nothing"
- DragonForce - "Fury of the Storm"
- Drowning Pool - "Bodies"
- Edgar Winter- "Free Ride"
- Fall Out Boy - "Dance, Dance"
- Five Finger Death Punch - "Hard To See"
- Flyleaf - "Again"
- Foo Fighters - "No Way Back"
- Foreigner - "Feels Like The First Time"
- George Thorogood and The Destroyers - "Move It On Over (Live)"
- The Hives - "Tick Tick Boom"
- Interpol - "Slow Hands"
- Jane's Addiction - "Been Caught Stealing"
- Jethro Tull - "Aqualung"
- John 5 - "Black Widow Of La Porte"
- KISS - "Love Gun"
- Linkin Park - "Bleed It Out"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Call Me The Breeze (Live)"
- Megadeth - "Sudden Death"
- Megadeth - "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"
- Megadeth - "This Day We Fight!"
- Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne - "Paranoid (Live)"
- Muse - "Uprising"
- My Chemical Romance - "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"
- Neil Young - "Rockin' In The Free World"
- Nickelback - "How You Remind Me"
- Night Ranger - "(You Can Still) Rock In America"
- Nine Inch Nails - "Wish"
- The Offspring - "Self Esteem"
- Orianthi - "Suffocated"
- Pantera - "I'm Broken"
- Phoenix - "Lasso"
- Poison - "Unskinny Bop"
- Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- Queensrÿche - "Jet City Woman"
- Rammstein - "Waidmanns Heil"
- The Ramones - "Theme From Spiderman"
- Red Rider - "Lunatic Fringe"
- R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion"
- Rise Against - "Savior"
- The Rolling Stones - "Stray Cat Blues"
- The Runaways - "Cherry Bomb"
- Rush - "2112 Pt. 1 - Overture"
- Rush - "2112 Pt. 2 - The Temples Of Syrinx"
- Rush - "2112 Pt. 3 - Discovery"
- Rush - "2112 Pt. 4 - Presentation"
- Rush - "2112 Pt. 5 - Oracle: The Dream"
- Rush - "2112 Pt. 6 - Soliloquy"
- Rush - "2112 Pt. 7 - Grand Finale"
- RX Bandits - "It's Only Another Parsec..."
- Silversun Pickups - "There's No Secrets This Year"
- Slash featuring Ian Astbury - "Ghost"
- Slayer - "Chemical Warfare"
- Slipknot - "Psychosocial"
- Snot - "Deadfall"
- Soundgarden - "Black Rain"
- Steve Vai - "Speeding" (Vault Version)
- Stone Temple Pilots - "Interstate Love Song"
- Strung Out - "Calling"
- Styx - "Renegade"
- Sum 41 - "Motivation"
- Tesla - "Modern Day Cowboy"
- Them Crooked Vultures - "Scumbag Blues"
- Third Eye Blind - "Graduate"
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Listen To Her Heart"
- Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take It"
- The Vines - "Get Free"
- The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
- ZZ Top - "Sharp Dressed Man (Live)"
We see a few familiar faces in the form of Ozzy Osbourne's Paranoid (Guitar Hero III), Aqualung by Jethro Tull (Rock Band 2) and Tick Tick Boom from the Hives (LEGO Rock Band), as well as some less familiar songs, from bands that have never appeared on a music game before, like Anberlin, John 5 and Tesla (don't worry, we've never heard of them either). Dragonforce also make their return in this game - their song 'Through the Fire and Flames' in Guitar Hero III was an impossibly difficult, mega fast, rather long song and we only personally know of one person who's completed it (our very own Chris). I failed it at 1%. Hopefully 'Fury of the Storm' is a little easier, although we doubt it very much.
The intro of 'Through the Fire and Flames'. Goes faster than a very fast thing. On roller skates.
Unfortunately, however, Guitar Hero seem to have done their typical have-loads-of-songs-by-one-artist thing, and this time the band of the moment is Rush, whose epic 20 minute long opus, 2112 has been split into seven parts for the sake of playability. They also have Queen's famous Bohemian Rhapsody in there - which, as a song composed mostly of piano and vocal harmonies (and would therefore be much better suited to Rock Band 3, which will have keyboard parts and vocal harmonies), doesn't exactly seem to fit the "great guitar song mantra". We had the chance to grill the game's developers about some of the stranger song choices at Gamescom in Cologne last week - so stay tuned for their answers.
