5 October 2006
Ferry

Guitar Hero II 38 (new) songs revealed by MTV!

MTV’s Overdrive game site show G-Hole got a preview of Guitar Hero II for the PS2, which is due November 7th in the U.S. It looks like MTV wasn’t supposed to share nearly all the song names they saw though, and probably after a firm warning from developer Harmonix, they were quick to remove/sensor all the new Guitar Hero II songs from the video. Lucky for us, Guitar Hero II forumer Rhino4evr wrote all the new song (making a total of 38 songs out of 55 now!) names down and guessed the most likely artists. List here!

Opening Licks:
Strutter – Kiss
Mother – Danzig
Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
Shout At The Devil – Motley Crue
Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight – Spinal Tap

Amp-Warmers:
Heart Shaped Box – Nirvana
Message In A Bottle – Police
Woman – Wolfmother
You Really Got Me – Van Halen (Kinks)
Carry On Wayward Son – Kansas

String Snappers:
Surrender – Cheap Trick
Them Bones – Alice in Chains
Search and Destroy – Stooges
Tattooed Love Boys – The Pretenders
War Pigs – Sabbath

Thrash and Burn:
Cherry Pie – Warrant
Who Was In My Room Last Night – Butthole Surfers
Girlfriend – Mathew Sweet
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking – Rolling Stones
Sweet Child of Mine – Guns and Roses

Return of the Shred:
Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine
John The Fisherman – Primus
Freya – The Sword
Bad Reputation – Thin Lizzy
Jessica – Allman Brothers

Relentless Riffs:
Crazy On You – Heart
Trippin On A Hole In A Paper Heart – Stone Temple Pilots
Rock This Town – Stray Cays
Last Child – Aerosmith
Stop – Jane’s Addiction

Furious Fretwork:
Madhouse – Antrhax

Already confirmed songs:
Hangar 18 – Megadeth
Laid to Rest – Lamb of God
Miserlou – Dick Dale
Beast and the Harlot – Avenged Sevenfold
Freebird – Lynard Skynard
YYZ – Rush
Psychobilly Freakout – Rev Horton Heat

That’s 38 Songs announced. There are only supposed to be 40 liscensed songs, plus 15 bonus songs. That only leaves two songs left to be announced.

Update: Thanks for all your additions folks, you rock!

6 October 2006 15:38
K.

“The Beast and the _Harlot_ is Aveneged Sevenfold.”

That would be Avenged Sevenfold.

6 October 2006 17:11
J

You Really Got Me is by Van Halen and not the Kinks, that one was already confirmed

6 October 2006 17:18
Ruz

I think in the case of “You Really Got Me” they have it described in the game as “Made famous by The Kinks, as performed by Van Halen”. So I would imagine that some of the covers might be listed in the same way. Made famous by band X, as peformed by band Y.

6 October 2006 17:21
jake

Can we give the flaming a rest?
I don’t see Zeppelin ever happening in this franchise, They won’t even do iTunes. I’m crazy excited about John the Fisherman and YYZ, good to see two really underrated bands making it in here. Sweet Child will be awesome too, and Jessica’s gonna be crazy hard… i can’t wait.

6 October 2006 17:23
jake

Though that’s a good point about Maiden, they have great guitar players and they’ve never felt any shame about doing really commercial stuff with their music. I could see Aces High being pretty cool. I wonder where they are on this.

6 October 2006 18:03
Rallef

Damn..warpigs.

That’s a dream come true. I love my Sabbath.

6 October 2006 20:28
Punishment

Rush underrated? Primus yea, but Rush???

6 October 2006 21:43
mr.walter

totally with you Punishment…
Rush is so not underrated and BTW too bad Bat Country by avenged sevenfold didnt make it. beast.. is good though

6 October 2006 21:45
mr.walter

ROCK ON!! the CRUE! madeit if only it were kickstart my heart or live wire

7 October 2006 03:37
Denni

For a game called guitar hero how come there’s hardly any songs by guitar heroes?!?! Where’s the Zakk Wylde, the Dimebag, The Steve Vai, The Malmsteen, the Randy Rhoads, the Clapton?