Metallica's Enter Sandman Confirmed

[Orgophlax]

From Gamespot: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6174210.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;0


[2:53] They will also be releasing a "substantial amount of tracks" from Metallica, including "Enter Sandman" which will be on the game disc.

[chuchillo]

i wonder how much metallica charged for this? do you think they've come to their senses and are going to just let us have fun w/o gouging us [consumers] for every last penny? what's the general consensus?

[sushi111]

i wonder how much metallica charged for this? do you think they've come to their senses and are going to just let us have fun w/o gouging us [consumers] for every last penny? what's the general consensus?

Yeah maybe MEtallica started to realize this game isnt trying to ruin their band.

I get other bands that refuse, like Radiohead who have a strong belief of using their songs on anything (Creep was in Sing Star 90s, but Radiohead hates that song anyways.)

[admanimal]

I hear if you don't get 100% on all of their songs, they will sue you. :D

[Brock_Landers]

Metallica licenced out Enter Sandman to the WWE at one stage so they're probably less concerned with what people will do with their music than they are how much cashmoney they'll get from it :P

If Harmonix has got some nice royalties scheme and not hard-cash buy out rights in place for DLC I'd imagine most bands to be happy with the concept

[sushi111]

Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, MTV Games, a division of MTV Networks which is a division of Viacom , and rock icons Metallica announced today a deal that will showcase the incredible depth of the band's music in the highly anticipated videogame Rock Band(TM). The Grammy-award winning thrashers are making key tracks from their celebrated catalog available as digitally-distributed game levels. The incomparable metal song "Enter Sandman," will ship on the game's disc this holiday season.

"Metallica is one of the best loved bands in the world and their albums redefined hard rock and metal. Its one of the bands we had to bring to the Rock Band experience," said Alex Rigopulos, co-founder and CEO of Harmonix. "Rock Band will allow gamers to jam with the guys through their long, successful career, from young, raw talent to mega stars, playing the hard- rocking sounds that the band is known for."

Distributed by Electronic Arts , Rock Band is a new platform for music fans and gamers to interact with music like never before. Offering four music games in one - Rock Band challenges rockers to master the lead/bass guitar, drums, and vocals or play in a cooperative band experience. Built on unprecedented deals with the world's biggest record labels and music publishers, the music featured in Rock Band will span all genres of rock and include many of the master recordings from the greatest songs and artists of all time.

Best known for its thrash-metal sounds, Metallica's 11 albums have sold more than 95 million copies over their 26-year career. Easily one the most influential and intense metal bands of all time, the range of Metallica songs that will be available to Rock Band players will allow them to play along as the history of the genre unfolds.

"Enter Sandman," the first single from the band's self-titled album and one of the best known tracks, is a staple at Metallica's live concerts. VH1 ranked it as the 22nd in its "40 Greatest Metal Songs of All Time."

"Our goal was to bring a deep musical experience to Rock Band by providing not just one song by a player's favorite artist, but a carefully-chosen career-spanning array," stated Paul DeGooyer, MTV's Senior Vice President, Audio, Home Video and Games. "Metallica has never been afraid to let their fans get closer, and now those fans will be able to inhabit this incredible music in a completely new way."

Rock Band is slated for release on Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft(R) and PLAYSTATION(R) 3 computer entertainment system this Holiday 2007. For more information on Rock Band and Harmonix Music Systems please visit http://www.rockband.com and http://www.harmonixmusic.com.

[noumenon]

A couple observations on this announcement:

I was fairly confident metallica would eventually appear in a guitar hero/rock band game and was equally confident it would be one of their crapper 'singles' (ie enter sandman or fuel or something). I'm grateful to have metallica in the game but what about Battery, or Creeping Death, or One for example! I think these songs would suit the game a lot better (even if not as popular or good for marketing as 'hits') because this is definately one of Metallica's more musically dull songs.

Second: what does this mean for double kick in the game? They could have chosen this song because it has no double kick which could signify there won't be any double kick songs in the game. But the media release also says songs will span metallica's entire career, and pretty much all of their pre black stuff had double kick in every song. Interesting indeed.

[S1NS71CK]

After hearing about the "weekly" downloadables...and hearing about full albums being avalible, who knows? Maybe we will get full albums like Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, the Black Album. Lets just keep our fingers crossed. Me personally,and I know it isn't Metallica, I'm hoping for Pantera's Floods.