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Check out the final tracklist, organized by tier!

We’ve come across a leaked list of allegedly finalized songs to be included in Guitar Hero 3, organized by tier, including solo and co-op encores, boss battles and bonus songs! There appears to be at least one or two songs missing from this list that we expected to see, such as a rumored track by Velvet Revolver, but it’s nice to finally see an organized list!

Tier 1:
Foghat - Slow Ride
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Social Distortion - Story of My Life

Encore: Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite
Co-op Encore: Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Tier 2:
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Alice Cooper - School’s Out
Cream - Sunshine of Your Life
Heart - Barracuda

Boss: Tom Morello - Guitar Battle
Encore: Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Co-op Encore: The Strokes - Reptilia

Slash rocking the hell out for GH3.

Tier 3:
The Killers - When You Were Young
AFI - Miss Murder
The Who - The Seeker
Priestess - Lay Down

Encore: Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Co-op Encore: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss

Tier 4:
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Weezer - My Name Is Jonas

Encore: Pearl Jam - Evenflow
Co-op Encore: Blue Oyster Cult - Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll

Tier 5:
The Dead Kennedy’s - Holiday in Cambodia
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
ZZ Top - La Grange

Boss: Slash - Guitar Battle
Encore: Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Co-op Encore: Bloc Party - Hellicopter

Tier 6:
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
White Zombie - Black Sunshine
Tenacious D - The Metal

Encore: Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy
Co-op Encore: Matchbook Romance - Monsters

Tier 7:
Slipknot - Before I Forget
Disturbed - Stricken
Queens of the Stone Age - 3’s and 7’s
Muse - Knights of Cydonia

Encore: Living Colour - Cult of Personality

Tier 8:
Slayer - Raining Blood
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - One

Boss: Lou - Guitar Battle
Encore: The Devil Went Down to Georgia

The final boss battle of GH3?

Bonus Tracks:

An Endless Sporadic - Impulse
Backyard Babies - Minus Celsius
Bret Michaels Band - Go That Far
Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommit Alex
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Fall of Troy - FCP Remix
Gallows - In the Belly of a Shark
The Hellacopters - I’m in the Band
Heroes del Silencio - Avalancha
In Flames - Take This Life
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
LA Slum Lords - Down N Dirty
Lacuna Coil - Closer
Lions - Metal Heavy Lady
NAAST - Mauvis Garcon
Prototype - The Way It Ends
Revolverhead - Generation Rock
Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee
Scouts of St. Sebastian - In Love
Senses Fail - Can’t Be Saved
The Sleeping - Don’t Hold Back
The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums
Superbus - Radio Song

There isn’t one bullshit song in this entire list, and the idea of having boss battles and separate encores for single and co-op players is a really cool addition. But having a shred-off with the devil at the end of the game is really the clincher!

The Pistols set to record master track for Guitar Hero 3!

Big news for Guitar Hero fans today:

For the first time in over 30 years, the surviving members of the Sex Pistols will be reuniting in the studio to re-record their industry shattering hit single “Anarchy in the UK”, to be featured in Guitar Hero 3!

Singer John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, guitarist and radio DJ Steve Jones, and drummer Paul Cook will be recording with Chris Thomas, who was the original producer of their seminal album “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols”. They will even be utilizing the same analog sound desk that they originally used back in 1976 to give the recording a sense of authenticity that would be difficult to replicate with modern technology.

No word yet on whether original bassist Glen Matlock will be stepping back into the late Sid Vicious’ shoes again. If not, there’s always Gary Oldman (Who played Sid in one of the only good musical biopics ever made, “Sid and Nancy”).

It’s funny how many of these bands wouldn’t even let a cover of their songs be used for the original Guitar Hero, and yet, here we are, a couple of installments later, seeing bands like the Sex Pistols and In Living Colour reuniting to record original tracks for the game. With these kinds of heavyweight tracks being included, Guitar Hero 3 is shaping up to be the game of the year, at least for casual gamers, and maybe the best rhythm action game of all time.

I can’t wait to see what Rock Band is gonna pull out of their ass to even have a snowball’s chance in hell of competing with this.

46 Songs confirmed to date! More to come!

I know that you Guitar Heroes out there are dying to know what songs you’ll be shredding in the upcoming Guitar Hero 3!

Of the 70+ songs expected to be included, these are the songs that have been confirmed by Activision (In alphabetical order):

* “3’s and 7’s” - Queens of the Stone Age
* “Avalancha” - Héroes del Silencio
* “Barracuda” - Heart
* “Black Magic Woman” - Santana
* “Cherub Rock” - Smashing Pumpkins
* “Closer” - Lacuna Coil
* “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” - Blue Öyster Cult
* “Cult of Personality” - Living Colour
* “Even Flow” - Pearl Jam
* “Generation Rock” - Revolverheld
* “Go That Far” - Bret Michaels Band
* “Hier Kommt Alex” - Die Toten Hosen
* “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” - Pat Benatar
* “I’m in the Band” - The Hellacopters
* “In the Belly of a Shark” - Gallows
* “Knights of Cydonia” - Muse
* “La Grange” - ZZ Top
* “Lay Down” - Priestess
* “Mauvais Garçon” - NAAST
* “The Metal” - Tenacious D
* “Minus Celsius” - Backyard Babies
* “Miss Murder” - AFI
* “Mississippi Queen” - Mountain

Fact: True Guitar Heroes never, ever close their mouths. No matter what. *”My Name Is Jonas” - Weezer

* “The Number of the Beast” - Iron Maiden
* “One” - Metallica (!)
* “Paint It Black” - The Rolling Stones
* “Paranoid” - Black Sabbath
* “Radio Song” - Superbus
* “Raining Blood” - Slayer
* “Reptilia” - The Strokes
* “Rock and Roll All Nite” - Kiss
* “Rock You Like a Hurricane” - Scorpions
* “Ruby” - Kaiser Chiefs
* “Sabotage” - Beastie Boys
* “School’s Out” - Alice Cooper
* “She Bangs the Drums” - The Stone Roses
* “She Builds Quick Machines” - Velvet Revolver
* “Slow Ride” - Foghat
* “Suck My Kiss” - Red Hot Chili Peppers
* “Sunshine of Your Love” - Cream
* “Talk Dirty to Me” - Poison
* “Take This Life” - In Flames
* “Through the Fire and Flames” - DragonForce
* “Welcome to the Jungle” - Guns N’ Roses
* “When You Were Young” - The Killers