Red Octane has just announced that it is launching a worldwide search for unknown, independent bands to feature in the forthcoming sequel to SPOnG’s current favourite famous sex-god guitarist pretending game, Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero II is set for a US release later this year and, as you will no doubt already know from reading our recent reports here, is the follow-up title to 2005’s award-winning, industry-rocking Guitar Hero, which has successfully let hundreds of thousands of nerds know what it actually feels like to be Slash, Lemmy or Ozzy. Well, what it was like to be Ozzy before his brain imploded and he became a reality TV goon.
If you are in a band and you want a sure-fire way to becoming hugely famous without mucking around on MySpace (which, thinking about it, is kind of like GAF, but for music nerds and paedos) or bothering with the moribund beast that people still - almost nostalgically - refer to as the ‘music industry’, then this competition is for you.
It’s fairly straightforward. You have to submit original music for consideration for inclusion in the game (which is out in November) by firstly going to the Be A Guitar Hero website. Your song must fall into the ‘hard rock’ or ‘heavy metal’ genre with a featured lead guitar.
Get your MP3’s in quick mind, the deadline is June 30, 2006.
If you win, not only will your song be in the game, you will be included in all of press coverage which will inevitably result from the huge international PR campaign surrounding the launch of Guitar Hero II. So, you will be come internationally famous overnight. And then, instead of pretending to be a rock star by playing a small plastic PlayStation peripheral, you will actually be one, thus enabling you to acquire a cocaine habit and catch crabs off of groupies and all of that stuff.
Oh, and as well as becoming a proper rock star, the winner will also be awarded an Epiphone G-400 Electric Guitar; EMG Zakk Wylde pickup set; Krank Distortus Maximus distortion pedal; Pacific Drums and Percussion CX Drumset; Morley Pedal Steve Vai Bad Horsie Wah pedal; and a copy of the Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II videogames.
Guitar Hero II will be on show in the Kentia Hall at E3 next month. If you happen to be down there, then please tell us what it is like. SPOnG cannot go down there as it makes us all claustrophobic and anxious because of all the funny men who have staked their life-savings on totally useless gaming peripherals staring us out!
Guitar Hero II is set for a US release later this year and, as you will no doubt already know from reading our recent reports here, is the follow-up title to 2005’s award-winning, industry-rocking Guitar Hero, which has successfully let hundreds of thousands of nerds know what it actually feels like to be Slash, Lemmy or Ozzy. Well, what it was like to be Ozzy before his brain imploded and he became a reality TV goon.
If you are in a band and you want a sure-fire way to becoming hugely famous without mucking around on MySpace (which, thinking about it, is kind of like GAF, but for music nerds and paedos) or bothering with the moribund beast that people still - almost nostalgically - refer to as the ‘music industry’, then this competition is for you.
It’s fairly straightforward. You have to submit original music for consideration for inclusion in the game (which is out in November) by firstly going to the Be A Guitar Hero website. Your song must fall into the ‘hard rock’ or ‘heavy metal’ genre with a featured lead guitar.
Get your MP3’s in quick mind, the deadline is June 30, 2006.
If you win, not only will your song be in the game, you will be included in all of press coverage which will inevitably result from the huge international PR campaign surrounding the launch of Guitar Hero II. So, you will be come internationally famous overnight. And then, instead of pretending to be a rock star by playing a small plastic PlayStation peripheral, you will actually be one, thus enabling you to acquire a cocaine habit and catch crabs off of groupies and all of that stuff.
Oh, and as well as becoming a proper rock star, the winner will also be awarded an Epiphone G-400 Electric Guitar; EMG Zakk Wylde pickup set; Krank Distortus Maximus distortion pedal; Pacific Drums and Percussion CX Drumset; Morley Pedal Steve Vai Bad Horsie Wah pedal; and a copy of the Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II videogames.
Guitar Hero II will be on show in the Kentia Hall at E3 next month. If you happen to be down there, then please tell us what it is like. SPOnG cannot go down there as it makes us all claustrophobic and anxious because of all the funny men who have staked their life-savings on totally useless gaming peripherals staring us out!
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Jay 2 May 2006 13:23
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The comp is for US residents only - just been to submit an entry and I can't.
Gutted!
Gutted!