MMMM, Activision, I think I love you...

I got this info from the innernets today about the Metallica edition of Guitar Hero that will be coming out in 09, I think:

All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

Then there are the non Metallica tracks:

* ALICE IN CHAINS - No Excuses
* BOB SEGER - Turn The Page
* CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Albatross
* DIAMOND HEAD - Am I Evil?
* FOO FIGHTERS - Stacked Actors
* JUDAS PRIEST - Hell Bent For Leather
* KYUSS - Demon Cleaner
* LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Tuesdays Gone
* MACHINE HEAD - Beautiful Mourning
* MASTODON - Blood And Thunder
* MERCYFUL FATE - Evil
* MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP - Armed and Ready
* MOTÖRHEAD - Ace of Spades
* QUEEN - Stone Cold Crazy
* SAMHAIN - Mother of Mercy
* SLAYER - War Ensemble
* SOCIAL DISTORTION - Mommy's Little Monster
* SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - War Inside My Head
* SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Toxicity
* THE SWORD - Black River
* THIN LIZZY - The Boys Are Back in Town

You'll notice a track by a little known band that starts with a "K" that this guy is stoked to rock out to. Bring it on!

Alice In Chains - No Excuses
Bob

I'm afraid it's just a matter of time

The above image is a vision of the future for my XBOX360. I have experienced several hiccups lately, involving discs suddenly becoming unreadable, only to work again after rebooting. Then Nascar 2009 started locking up on me. Then this week while test driving GET3's Guitar Hero World Tour, video game hell broke loose. I was away at the chiropractor and returned to find that the game had frozen up. GET3 tried all manner of troubleshooting techniques and was convinced that the disc was to blame. I disproved that by causing the system to lock up while merely trying to move around in the dashboard. Then after another restart it was there: The Red Ring of Death staring us dead in the eye! After the initial shock of GET3 having no earthly idea why I had called it that, the panic set in. I quickly offered a prayer to Link, the Norse god of whimsy and gaming systems.
I rebooted the system and surprisingly it fired up. We played a quick game of Bankshot Billiards 2, which is saved on the hard drive. I then went through the saved game files and deleted a corrupted file from Guitar Hero 3, as well as the file we had saved already from the new game. We were actually able to play the game for a couple of hours with no problems, aside from the new guitar controller, which was registering the notes I played, but not allowing them to add into a streak, causing the crowd to boo us off the stage. We switched to my Guitar Hero 3 controller which performed with no problems. I

I haven't played anything since. I know that soon it will break for good and I will have to send it off to the MS Hospital.

Fun with Photoshop

edit: GET3 has spoken and his new GHWT band will indeed named FIHYR!



So I'm waiting for my trimmer battery to charge up so I can finish trimming the yard. So I decide to play around with photoshop to create a band logo for a fictitious band. The one GET3 and I will use to dominate Guitar Hero World Tour. We haven't settled on a name yet, but I had a few I pulled out of Monster Manual II ( the same tome that gave birth to the name Kyuss) I used the image of the Deathbringer (there is already a russian metal band by that name, dammit!) and the name Fihyr (pronounced "fear"):

Fihyrs are the collected fears of humanity made corporeal.
These creatures were once thought to be related to beholders,
but in fact there is no connection between the two kinds
of monsters aside from a superficial resemblance.
As the remnants of hundreds of people’s
nightmares swirl
through the ether,
they somehow combine with leftover magical
power and coalesce into these physical monsters. A few
random dream images aren’t enough; it takes the strong emotional
energy of a mass of people under duress to spawn a fihyr.
The right combination of conditions is most often found in
cities that are under siege, or being terrorized by monsters, or
suffering from famine, civil war, or some other mass trauma.
Great fihyrs are larger, more intelligent, and much more
dangerous than the smaller variety. A great fihyr forms
when a number of small fihyrs combine.

I need some more elements (flames, anyone?) in the lower corners, and maybe a headless corpse or two. What do you think?