Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 14, 2015
For a while around 8 years ago or so, if you were playing a video game at home, it was probably Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Then the market got oversaturated, people got bored, and plastic guitars and drum sets littered sidewalks like tumbleweeds in a desert. Of course, now that next-gen systems are out […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 24, 2015
About ten years ago, the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchise were a new and exciting fusion of music and video games. Many gamers were turned on to music, much of it heavy, by playing the games. Dragonforce and The Sword were among the bands that got popularity boosts by having their music featured in the games. […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 10, 2014
A few years ago, we ran a list of our top five most metal video games. It took a while for website Game Trailers to come up with their own list, but they’ve just unveiled their top 10 most metal video games. They disqualified our #1 pick right off the bat (which was the Guitar Hero […]
Posted by Metal Insider on April 2, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Combining metal and video games is the most peanut butter/chocolate combinations ever. Both relatively appeal to younger males (and cool females, just sayin’). It’s also a way to brand a game as edgier than, say, Pokemon. While the inclusion of […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on November 21, 2011
19 year old virtuoso/ White Wizzard guitarist Jake Dreyer’s song “Harmony Of The Spheres” is now available in the Rock Band Network. A video of the song being played in the video game has also been posted online by Offbeat Entertainment.
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 13, 2010
It seems like an eternity since the rhythm video game franchises of Guitar Hero and Rock Band first came on the scene, but the idea isn’t even five years old yet (Guitar Hero came out in November, 2005). With Green Day – Rock Band being released on June 8, this will be roughly the 2,439th […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on March 16, 2010
Clutch has made their songs “50,000 Unstoppable Watts” and “The Mob Goes Wild” available for Rock Band. In addition, Unearth’s “We Are Not Anonymous” is also available for the video game.
Posted by Zach Shaw on February 17, 2010
Jimi Hendrix’s step-sister and head of his estate Janie Hendrix has revealed that a Jimi Hendrix Rock Band edition will be released by the end of the year.
Posted by Zach Shaw on February 5, 2010
Megadeth’s Rust In Peace will be made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game. It will be made available for Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii systems on February 9 and for PS3 on February 11.
Posted by Dan Rodriguez on January 11, 2010
Alt-Strum Productions, an independent company who will offer a service to program artists’ songs for the Rock Band video games through the announced Rock Band Network, wrote in to announce a new partnership with Arkaea/ex-Fear Factory drummer Raymond Herrera. Herrera, a longtime pioneer in video game composing and crossover music marketing, will act as a […]
