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Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister digitized for Guitar Hero: Metallica photo

Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister has had quite the career. He's been successful with Motörhead voice of doom. Dude's so famous and well-known that even his mole has a MySpace page

Now, Kilmister can add being in a videogame to his resume. Activision has revealed that he'll be appearing as a digitized and "playable" character in the upcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica. A re-recording of the Motörhead song "Ace of Spades" will appear in the game as well.

"It's great to be in Guitar Hero with all these famous people," he says, "and I'm really pleased to be in it with Metallica ... but James [Hetfield] is still taller than me."

While Kilmister could be referring to the "famous people" in previous Guitar Hero titles (Jimi Hendrix, Slash, and Sting among others), there's been hints that more digitized musicians may make appearances. The theatrical rocker King Diamond has hinted that there's be a big surprise for his fans in Guitar Hero: Metallica, which could mean he'll be available in the game, alongside Kilmister. 

The game ships soon enough -- this March for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 -- so it won't be long until all is revealed.

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SephirothX's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 12:31
SephirothX
Am I the only person thinking this will fall flat like Guitar Hero: Aerosmith did?
IroN1c's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 12:40
IroN1c
Metallica is way more popular with gamers than Aerosmith.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 12:41
Nick Chester
@SephirothX:

I believe that Aerosmith sold reasonably well, with the band praising how much money they made and were able to roll around in as a result.
TheCleaningGuy's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 13:13
TheCleaningGuy
I love me some Motorhead, but do we really need another video game appearance of Ace of Spades? How about Love Me Like a Reptile? Or The Hammer? Or Orgasmatron?
Anyone?
OwningXylophone's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 13:36
OwningXylophone
A bit behind the times here a dtoid this week aren't we? This news broke last week! But anyway, there will indeed be at least one other non-Metallica playable character :-

http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601924

Hopefully they don't just mean Tom Araya though...

@ CleaningGuy, Orgasmatron FTW!
Vedicardi2's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 13:57
Vedicardi2
Hahaha Leave it to lemmy to crack a super obscure joke out of no where
Johnny Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 14:43
Johnny Justice
How come Motorhead's cover of Enter Sandman is titled "Fuck Metallica"?
SephirothX's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 15:26
SephirothX
@Nick
It sold reasonably well, but it wasnt comparable to the likes of GH3 and Rock Band.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/16/2009 17:16
Nick Chester
@OwningXylophone:

Yeah, we're a bit late on this, but we never got around to it. Slow news day and all, figured might as well (plus, I think Activision just ended up sending a press release out about it today).

Another friend, eh? King Diamond anyone? Wonder where we've heard that one before!
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