This week's Rock Band downloadable content brings a pack of songs which I will surely never be able to complete on expert in anything but vocals. The "Earache Thrash Pack" brings three Earache Records recording artists to Rock Band to completely bug the crap out of your neighbors and frighten your cats:
At the Gates - "Blinded By Fear"
Evile - "Thrasher"
The Haunted - "D.O.A."
All songs are of the original recordings and will cost $1.99 (or 160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) a piece. If you're so inclined to save a few bucks, the entire "Earache Thrash Pack" can be picked up for $5.49 (or 540 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360).
Back when some of the tracks were first revealed by the Official "Leaky McLeakTown" Xbox Magazine, I said this and I'll say it again: these songs are pretty great instrumentally, but something tells me that a random set list could be "ruined" by tossing an At The Gates track in between a Red Hot Chili Peppers and a Garbage song.
If only there were a way to disable certain tracks for the game's "Band World Tour" mode ...
ROCK BAND Media Alert
ROCK BAND™ ADDS THRASH METAL TO ONLINE CATALOG WITH EARACHE THRASH PACK
Continuing on their mission to expand the Rock Band downloadable content catalog, Harmonix and MTV Games announced today their thrash metal addition with the Earache Thrash Pack starting March 18th. The new DLC Pack features three blistering tracks from melodic death metal group At The Gates (“Blinded By Fear”), English thrash metal heroes Evile (“Thrasher”) and Swedish thrash metal band The Haunted (“D.O.A.”). Each track will be available for $1.99 per track or $5.49 for the trio pack.
Release date:
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 (Xbox LIVE® Marketplace)
Thursday, March 20, 2008 (PLAYSTATION®Store)
Tracks:
EARACHE THRASH PACK
At The Gates “Blinded By Fear”
Evile “Thrasher”
The Haunted “D.O.A.”
Price:
$5.49 (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per pack or $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
Locations:
Xbox LIVE® Marketplace and PLAYSTATION®Network
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5:42 PM on 03.16.2008 | 
Where's my The Who?
That said, At The Gates with only one foot pedal? That's like having sex halfway.
Having sex halfway is better than not having sex at all, right?
Just give me Baba O'Reilly and I'll go away. We can make this all go away REAAAAAL easy like.
No one has to get hurt.
I've put off buying rock-band for like, months now.
And with this, I will be picking it up first thing tomorrow.
PLZ MOAR OF THIS!
I'm not buying anything this week. Thanks, Harmonix for helping me save money for that HDTV
Dont mind if I do lol
At the Gates and Evile are cool, to much screamin for me though. But this is damn cool that there going to actually put in songs like this.
Now bring on my Dimmu Borgir!
You sir don't know sh*t about music. This kind of music is not your cup of tea, I can understand that. But saying this isn't music is just retarded. You should be thankful this update doesn't include some of the heavier Earache bands like The Berzerker, Hate Eternal or Decapitated.
PS I think you might enjoy the Blink 182 song.
There is, BWT plays any song on your hard drive, sooooo delete the songs you don't want. When you want to play them again, just download for free.
I'm downloading this whole pack tomorrow, just for the drum tracks. I like active drum portions, i won't even try to "sing" (read: scream) these but hell i'll be sweating my balls off playing these songs back to back.
I can't wait.