Activision has released new information regarding Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock including a partial set list of the game’s 90+ song library. Nintendo Power previously revealed that the game will focus on “shredding kind of rock” and will offer a Gene Simmons-narrated story mode. With the release of Warriors of Rock comes a new wireless guitar that’s “completely redesigned” and “rock-inspired” and a new Quickplay+ mode that will add more challenges to most of the Guitar Hero music library (so that means DLC, World Tour, and Guitar Hero 5 tracks).

Activision has revealed the following tracks so far:

• AFI – “Dancing Through Sunday”
• Avenged Sevenfold – “Bat Country”
• Black Sabbath – “Children Of The Grave”
• Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?”
• Children Of Bodom – “If You Want Peace… Prepare For War”
• The Cure – “Fascination Street”
• Def Leppard – “Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)”
• Dethklok – “Bloodlines”
• DragonForce – “Fury of the Storm”
• Drowning Pool – “Bodies”
• Foo Fighters – “No Way Back”
• Foreigner – “Feels Like The First Time”
• Jane’s Addiction – “Been Caught Stealing”
• KISS – “Love Gun”
• Megadeth – “Sudden Death”
• Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne – “Paranoid (Live)”
• Muse – “Uprising”
• My Chemical Romance – “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”
• Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• Rammstein – “Waidmanns Heil”
• The Rolling Stones – “Stray Cat Blues”
• Silversun Pickups – “There’s No Secrets This Year”
• Slayer – “Chemical Warfare”
• ZZ Top – “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”

Kerrang! magazine has also posted the unveil trailer for the game:

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is being developed by Neversoft and Vicarious Visions and seems to be slated for a September 19 release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii consoles.

[Source: Activision Press Release, Kerrang!]

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Owners of Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero Smash Hits will be able to export on-disc tracks for use in Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero in a similar fashion to last year’s Rock Band 2’s support for Rock Band on-disc songs. Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers can download an update (will cost you money) to export on-disc tracks to their hard drives, but you will need a unique 20-digit code on the back of the World Tour and Smash Hits manuals. Individual tracks can be deleted. A free update will also update World Tour DLC with GH5 features and allow the tracks to be used in the new Hero titles.

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