Tuesday, August 11th 2009
News: Miscellaneous
Fight For Metal Upon The Crimson Dawn With Jack Black
Brutal Legend is a rock n’ roll game, but it isn’t a Guitar Hero clone. It’s an action-oriented, hack n’ slash game where you control a roadie named Eddie Riggs with a regular controller. Riggs, voiced by Jack Black, kills enemies with axes (and guitars), jumps around, drives vehicles, and saves dansels in distress. Sounds pretty metal, right? There’s more…
The entire game is set in a fantasy world based on the artwork of heavy metal albums into which Riggs has been transported. In addition to that of Black, the game features the voices of Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford (playing two characters), Lita Ford, and Ozzy Osbourne. And their likenesses are all in the game, of course. Just take a look at Lemmy and his 3D mole:
This week, the full soundtrack of the game was revealed. Here are the 75 artists and 108 songs you can listen to in Brutal Legend:
3 Inches Of Blood: Deadly Sinners & Destroy The Orcs
Accept: Fast As A Shark
Angel Witch: Angel Witch
Anthrax: Metal Thrashing Mad
Anvil: March Of The Crabs & Tag Team
Apostasy: Sulphur Injection
Bishop Of Hexen: A Serpentine Grave & The Somber Grounds Of Truth
Black Sabbath: Children Of The Grave, Symptom Of The Universe, Never Say Die
Brocas Helm: Cry Of The Banshee & Drink The Blood Of The Priest
Budgie: Breadfan & Zoom Club
Candlemass: Witches
Carcass: No Love Lost
Cloven Hoof: Nightstalker
Children Of Bodom: Angels Don’t Kill
Coroner: Skeleton On Your Soulder
Cradle Of Filth: Her Ghost In The Fog
Crimson Glory: Queen Of The Masquerade
Dark Fortress: Insomnia
Dark Tranquility: Cathode Ray Sunshine
Deathstars: Blitzkrieg
Def Leppard: Rock Of Ages
Dethklok: Mermaider
Diamond Head: Am I Evil?
Dimmu Borgir: Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse
Dokken: Mr. Scary
Dragonforce: Through The Fire And Flames
Emperor: Thus Spake The Nightspirit
Enslaved: Frost & Loke
Firehouse: Overnight Sensation
Girlschool: Bomber
Iced Earth: When The Night Falls & Pure Evil
In Flames: Goliaths Disarm Their Davids
Judas Priest: Battle Hymn, The Hellion/Electric Eye, Leather Rebel, One Shot At Glory & Painkiller
Kabbage Boy: Girlfriend
KMFDM: Free Your Hate & Rip The System
King Diamond: Cremation & Welcome Home
Kiss: God Of Thunder
Lita Ford: Betrayal
Marilyn Manson: Beautiful People
Manowar: Die For Metal & The Dawn Of Battle
Mastodon: Crack The Skye & Oblivion Instrumental
Megadeth: High Speed Dirt & Tornado Of Souls
Metal Church: Metal Church
Michael Schenker Group: Assault Attack
Ministry: Stigmata, Thieves
Mirrorthrone: So Frail
Mötley Crüe: Dr. Feelgood, Kickstart My Heart & Live Wire
Motörhead: Back At The Funny Farm, In The Black, Marching Off To War & We Are The Road Crew
Nitro: Machine Gun Eddie
Omen: The Axeman
Ostrogoth: Queen Of Desire
Overkill: World Of Hurt
Ozzy Osbourne: Believer, Mr. Crowley & Diary Of A Madman
Prong: Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
Quiet Riot: The Wild And The Young
Racer X: Technical Difficulties & Y.R.O.
Ratt: Lay It Down
Riot: Road Racin, Narita & Swords And Tequila
Rob Zombie: Superbeast
Rotting Christ: Ad Notics
Running Wild: Riding The Storm
Sanctuary: Battle Angels
Savatage: Hall Of The Mountain King
Saxon: Wheels Of Steel
Scorpions: Blackout & Holiday
Skeletonwitch: Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery
Skid Row: Youth Gone Wild
Slayer: Metal Storm/Face The Slayer
Slough Feg: Warriors Dawn
Static-X: Love Dump
Tenacious D: Master Exploder & The Metal
Testament: For The Glory Of & More Than Meets The Eye
Tvangeste: Birth Of The Hero
UFO: Rock Bottom
Whitesnake: Still Of The Night
Wrath Of Killenstein: Ignisis Dance
That’s some metal ass shit right there. The mastermind behind this project is Tim Schafer, responsible for some of the funniest, greatest, best-written games in history, such as Grim Fandango, The Secret of Monkey Island, Psychonauts, and Full Throttle (which itself was a bit metal).
Brutal Legend is coming out for the XBox 360 and PS3 on October 13, 2009, or, as the development team at Double Fine calls it, “Rocktober 13th.” A bit of a shame for this PC gamer personally, seeing as all of Tim Shafer’s previous works were available for the PC.
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p.s. i’ve heard of all those bands except for kabbage boy. who?
I’ve been excited since I saw the first trailer a week or so ago
No PC release – fuck it.
Full Throttle was the shit. Hopefully this game will bring more of the same cool gameplay. Bummed its not on PC, though. That list of artists/songs is like an eighties metal kids’ wet dream. Too fucking cool.
With Tim Schaffer’s name on this. It will be good.
I have no doubt.
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