Metallica's "Death Magnetic" Playable on "Guitar Hero III" Same Day of Album Release

Rock Band 2 may have secured a new Guns n' Roses song, but Guitar Hero III has acquired an entire album: Metallica's Death Magnetic. Though the band still hasn't named an exact release date, Metallica announced on their Website that the day their new album comes out in September, "you'll be able to download every song from the album for Guitar Hero III!" The band also promises that Death Magnetic will be ready to go once Guitar Hero: World Tour hits the streets in the fall as well, allowing fans to drum, sing and thrash along. "We are so psyched that we'll be the first out of the gate with this simultaneous release ... who knows, maybe a few years from now this will be the norm when your favorite band's new record comes out," the band said. While Rock Band 2 is trying to draw new gamers across the board with their wide-ranging track list, Guitar Hero has locked up the Metallica bloc — a full-scale Guitar Hero title featuring Metallica songs (in the style of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith) is expected some time next year.

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“The Pretender”

Foo Fighters | 2007

This song wasn't part of the planned track listing for 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and was put together in a day. "It happened after we recorded a lot of stuff," said Dave Grohl. Yet it ended up as the album opener and the lead single. Grohl called it "a stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it." The singer hinted at the lyrics' political overtones: "Everyone's been f---ed over before and I think a lot of people feel f---ed over right now and they're not getting what they were promised."

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