Activision has been slowly revealing bits and pieces of the Guitar Hero 5 artist list, but it looks like the full list is finally out there on the game's official site. Here is said list!
- 3 Doors Down
- A Perfect Circle
- AFI
- Arctic Monkeys
- Attack! Attack! UK
- Band of Horses
- Beastie Boys
- Beck
- Billy Idol
- Billy Squier
- Blink-182
- Blur
- Bob Dylan
- Bon Jovi
- Brand New
- Bush
- Children of Bodom
- Coldplay
- Darker My Love
- Darkest Hour
- David Bowie
- Deep Purple
- Dire Straits
- Duran Duran
- Eagles of Death Metal
- Elliott Smith
- Elton John
- Face To Face
- Garbage
- Gorillaz
- Gov't Mule
- Grand Funk Railroad
- Iggy Pop
- Iron Maiden
- Jeff Beck
- Jimmy Eat World
- John Mellencamp
- Johnny Cash
- Kaiser Chiefs
- King Crimson
- Kings of Leon
- Kiss
- Love and Rockets
- Megadeth
- Motley Crue
- Muse
- My Morning Jacket
- Nirvana
- No Doubt
- Peter Frampton
- Public Enemy (feat. Zakk Wylde)
- Queen & David Bowie
- Queens Of The Stone Age
- Rammstein
- Rose Hill Drive
- Rush
- Santana
- Scars On Broadway
- Screaming Trees
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Sonic Youth
- Spacehog
- Stevie Wonder
- Sublime
- Sunny Day Real Estate
- T. Rex
- The Bronx
- The Derek Trucks Band
- The Duke Spirit
- The Killers
- The Police
- The Raconteurs
- The Rolling Stones
- The Sword
- The White Stripes
- Thin Lizzy
- Thrice
- Tom Petty
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- TV On The Radio
- Vampire Weekend
- Weezer
- Wild Cherry
- Wolfmother
That's a lot of bands. Considering the frequency with with music is added to the rhythm game universe, I'm finding it harder and harder to get excited about raw lists of artists, you know what I mean? It's reached such a critical mass that a more interesting list would be one that shows major bands who haven't signed over to Guitar Hero or Rock Band and lists the reasons why.
Like this...
- Led Zeppelin: Too old to understand new-fangled video game technology, thinks ghosts will steal their masters.
- Y&T: No one has asked, no one plans to.
- Limp Bikzit: Fred Durst recently posted a video showing him with an EA backpack, claiming that he met with the Rock Band people to put them in the game. In case you were wondering what the bottom of the rhythm game barrel looks like, we're getting pretty close.
- Nickelback: I'M NOT WORKING FOR MCDONALDS I'M NOT WORKING FOR MCDONALDS I'M NOT WORKING FOR MCDONALDS