Before you ask, this is not a joke.  There is indeed yet another Guitar Hero game releasing this year.  Guitar Hero Metallica is headed to homes this Spring featuring over 45 tracks from Metallica’s illustrious career and a wide variety of other legendary artists personally selected by the band, such as Queen, Foo Fighters, Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Slayer and Judas Priest.

So let’s keep count of the Guitar Hero games that have released since the debut of Rock Band shall we?  Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Guitar Hero On Tour, Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades, Guitar Hero World Tour and now Guitar Hero Metallica.

That’s quite a few titles in under 2 years.  Guitar Hero outnumbers Rock Band 3:1 in game spinoffs.  You don’t want to leave all the milking to Neversoft and Activision do you Harmonix?  Where’s my Rock Band: Guns N Roses or Rock Band: U2?

The complete Guitar Hero Metallica on-disc set list will include their following hits:

Metallica Song List

“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”
“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”

Additional Bands List

Alice In Chains – “No Excuses”
Bob Seger – “Turn The Page (Live)”
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 (Live)”
Suicidal Tendencies – “War Inside My Head”
System of a Down – “Toxicity”
The Sword – “Black River”
Thin Lizzy – “The Boys Are Back in Town”

Anyone ready for Guitar Hero Metallica? I have no news on if Neversoft plans to implement new instruments or if they’ll simply ride with the World Tour guitar design.