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Rock Band 2 getting six more DLC albums

Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Megadeth, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and No Doubt lending full track packs to rhythm game "in the coming months."

Harmonix has had quite a streak going with new downloadable songs for its widely popular rhythm game Rock Band. This week's technical snafu surrounding Rush's much-anticipated Moving Pictures album notwithstanding, Harmonix has made much of its intent to continue its strong postrelease support in Rock Band 2, which debuts on the Xbox 360 in September and follows on the PlayStation 3, Wii, and PlayStation 2 later in the year.

Blood, sugar, sex, and magic. What more could a rocker want?

Blood, sugar, sex, and magic. What more could a rocker want?

Today, Harmonix gave gamers a peek at the first batch of full albums that will be digitally reprised for Rock Band 2. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, the first round of full albums includes the Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking, Megadeth's Peace Sells... But Who's Buying, and Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood. A No Doubt Best Of compilation is also slated to join the album-length track packs.

Neither Harmonix nor its publisher MTV Games revealed the exact dates on which the aforementioned albums will be rolled out. However, MTV Games did tell EW that they would all be available "in the coming months."

Harmonix expects to have more than 500 songs available for play in Rock Band 2 by year's end. As revealed during this year's E3 Media & Business Summit, more than 80 songs will ship on the game's disc, with headline acts including AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, and Bob Dylan. For more on Rock Band 2, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.

216 Comments

  • 8jake5

    Posted Sep 14, 2008 5:59 pm GMT

    chilli pepers

  • kaim_odyssey

    Posted Sep 13, 2008 7:54 am GMT

    It is the black album was mentioned in 360gamer a couple of issues ago

  • Nosnitsttam

    Posted Sep 12, 2008 10:06 pm GMT

    @chazzx21 - There's nothing wrong with Death Magnetic. it's a great album. but it won't be on rock band since GH3 already has the deal for that album. It'll probably be Puppets or the Black Album. They wouldn't put anything after the black album on their because the "fans" don't like anything past 1991. their loss, IMO.

  • Nosnitsttam

    Posted Sep 12, 2008 10:02 pm GMT

    I wonder if they would consider doing any foreign albums? there are some great bands that don't sing in english. The music is just as great, plus singing in say, japanese, would add a challenge to the vocal aspect.

  • Little_Socrates

    Posted Sep 12, 2008 8:20 pm GMT

    THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

    Moving Pictures is still planned to be released, it's just going to take a while. If TCATS is first, then I'm totally okay with that.

    Anyone else planning on getting some Stevie Ray Vaughan? I plan to at least get Texas Flood & Pride and Joy.

  • roboticCoward

    Posted Sep 6, 2008 1:40 pm GMT

    Well Gamespot, thanks for not displaying my whole post. I shan't rewrite it. In short the only thing I liked was Foo Fighters and I'm bitter about Rush.

  • roboticCoward

    Posted Sep 6, 2008 1:38 pm GMT

    Red Hot Chili Peppers are a tad too corny for my tastes. Foo Fighters =

  • dmish82

    Posted Sep 2, 2008 12:09 pm GMT

    Colour and the Shape is a GREAT album!

  • CamiKitten

    Posted Sep 2, 2008 10:16 am GMT

    o_O wow.

  • chazzx21

    Posted Sep 2, 2008 8:52 am GMT

    I'm still waiting for the promised full metallica album download from Rock Band 1... and NOT Death Magnetic PLEASE!

  • Tru_Slayer

    Posted Sep 2, 2008 8:26 am GMT

    I can't wait. I love this game! I can't stop playing.

  • themc_7

    Posted Sep 2, 2008 4:23 am GMT

    holy crap, that's a whole lotta music

  • RunningWSheep

    Posted Sep 2, 2008 3:14 am GMT

    wumphelm is probably right, but God I'm looking forward to this. I only played it a couple of times, but it didn't like "Suck My Kiss" on GH3 was "too" edited. And that's saying something, every other line of that song has a dirty word/reference. The funny thing about a lot of RHCP's older stuff is you have to listen to it a lot to actually catch a lot of the references. "Little bo-peep comin from my stun gun"

    :0

  • JBjazzbo

    Posted Sep 1, 2008 8:52 am GMT

    all it needs is a hold steady album... or even one song would do me.... if it had the hold steady, art brut or mooney suzuki i would buy this game.

  • ultima_weapon21

    Posted Aug 31, 2008 5:25 pm GMT

    im hoping for some linkin park i love them now for me THATS gonna make the best rockband OR guitar hero who ever does it first thats the 1 il buy

  • wumphelm

    Posted Aug 31, 2008 12:30 pm GMT

    Unless Rock Band is rated "M" for mature, unfortunately I expect a chopped up, highly re-edited Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

  • DaSlyOne

    Posted Aug 31, 2008 8:12 am GMT

    My vote is for more "Best Of" compilations. When someone goes to a concert, you don't hear the "filler" material do you? So why is it so fun to play it in a "concert simulator" like RB or GH? While some diehard fans may enjoy some of the filler, the fact remains they would rarely hear it in a live concert.

  • Skreb-Masters

    Posted Aug 31, 2008 6:49 am GMT

    I still think Best Of... track packs would be better. Not every song in an album is as awesome as the rest. But seeing these albums makes me think differently. Megadeth = hell yeh!

  • Bitties

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 11:25 am GMT

    SRV IS A ROCK GOD!!!

  • yourweener

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 9:12 am GMT

    where's the sevendust!?!?

  • TheWarrior_94

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 7:03 am GMT

    I hope they bring some metallica albums out to buy!! And if they did guns n roses albums aswell that would be the best game EVER!!

  • Rickhavoc2

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 3:06 am GMT

    I never buy them so whats the point in me commenting

  • wrekk8

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 1:45 am GMT

    dream theater train of thought ftw

    having tool on there would b sick! i would buy the game if they were on it, plus stevie ray vaughn

  • Draconos137

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 10:17 pm GMT

    Megadeth is my favorite band, so this has made me beyond excited. Good to see some blues in the mix a'la stevie ray vaughn to.

  • Tang526

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 8:03 pm GMT

    Don Caballero!!!
    Don Caballero!!!

    if you know about difficult music and strange time signatures... learn about math-rock and experimental not these pop bullSTUFF!

  • Anziano32

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 6:13 pm GMT

    Siamese Dream would be killer. There better be more AC/DC coming as DLC, cuz what they picked for the album is pretty weak.

    More Audioslave!!

  • SpeedMan72

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 6:10 pm GMT

    cool but i want linkin park dlc!!!

  • WholeDarnShow

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 4:55 pm GMT

    Blood Sugar Sex Magik, as in "I got stopped by a lady cop..." Blood Sugar Sex Magik? Are they going to hella change the rating?

  • xchiefmegadethx

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 4:51 pm GMT

    Megadeth peace sells!!!!
    Is my fav Megadeth Album
    Nice rock band...to bad wont see it here for another year

  • Imagine09

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 4:30 pm GMT

    what about bands like Taking back sunday or Hawthorne hieghts?

  • Imagine09

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 4:25 pm GMT

    They need RATM, Coheed and Cambria, Tenacious D DLC.
    but most importantly where the hell is Led Zeppelin

  • avsfan7733

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 12:45 pm GMT

    where is siamese dream?

  • WTA2k5

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 12:25 pm GMT

    Those are okay albums ('cept for Stevie Ray Vaughan, which is awesome). Rage's Battle For Los Angeles would be sweet, and so would Coheed and Cambria's Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV.

  • skylerman

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 11:52 am GMT

    what about nirvana's nevermind album? that would be freakin amazing

  • MajinDante

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 11:36 am GMT

    the new guitar hero has 3 TooL songs on it does it not?
    or was that leaked list inaccurate

  • thomas10soa

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 11:18 am GMT

    on another note gh3 has dragonforce dlc

    HA nobody cares

  • necronaux

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 10:30 am GMT

    If you don't like every song on an album, will they be selling tracks individually?

  • snarple_basic

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 9:44 am GMT

    Megadeth's Peace Sells, would be fun as hell. Glad thats one of the albums.

  • Khansoul

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 9:23 am GMT

    Texas Flood! looks like RockBand 2 is full of win my choice has been made!

  • brizzock

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 9:20 am GMT

    TOOL in this game would just be too much fun, can't expect them to actually give us what we want. I would honestly pay the entire cost of the game all over again to have Undertow, Lateralus, 10,000 days, and Dirt by Alice in Chains. I would probably never play any other games if I had those albums on my box.

  • hannify

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 8:45 am GMT

    FINALLY AC/DC

    NOW WE WANT THIN LIZZY!!!!

  • razgriz_101

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:48 am GMT

    the colour and the shape IM SOLD!!!!

    especially for Monkey wrench,see you and the countless other good foo's songs,Also the bonus tracks that are on newer editions of the album couldnt go a miss.

  • maccer101

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:41 am GMT

    I'll take bass any day on chili peppers songs, better get buying them points!

  • dth_dlr

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:24 am GMT

    some great albums in there, awesome news

  • Wolf-Man2006

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:19 am GMT

    I highly doubt there is gonna be a Tool album on Rock Band because of the fact that the band is extremely private. Despite that, its cool how there's gonna be all kinds of stuff like Foo Fighters, No Doubt, RHCP, etc.

  • ohjtbehaaave

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:09 am GMT

    SRV ... FTW!!!

  • ExtremePhobia

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:02 am GMT

    I could see getting all of these... except maybe No Doubt. That worries me though, I can't afford all this music!

  • scottiescott238

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 5:43 am GMT

    Omg amazing!! the colour and the shape is my fave albumk of all time

  • klugenbeel

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 5:40 am GMT

    YEAH FOR MEGADETH!

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