What songs are on Guitar Hero: Metallica? Activision's best-selling Guitar Hero series last released a game in 2015 - Guitar Hero Live - but one of the series' better additions was Guitar Hero: Metallica. A rhythm-based game where players attempt to hit the correct buttons of their controller in time with a song of their choice, Guitar Hero: Metallica was released in 2009 to favorable reviews.

Guitar Hero: Metallica was released on PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 and focused on the famous titular heavy metal band and a 'best of' selection of some of their most popular hit songs, Guitar Hero: Metallica followed Guitar Hero: Aerosmith as the second game to completely focus on one band.

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Designed to be played with a novelty guitar-shaped controller, Guitar Hero: Metallica also showcased a 'full band' mode where multiple players could participate at the same time. Each utilized a different instrument; lead guitar, bass guitar and drums. There was also the option for a player to provide vocals, making for much co-op fun. Here's the complete song list for the game:

Guitar Hero Metallica

Songs by Metallica:

  • "All Nightmare Long"
  • "Battery"
  • "Broken, Beat & Scarred" (DLC)
  • "Creeping Death"
  • "Cyanide" (DLC)
  • "Disposable Heroes"
  • "Dyers Eve"
  • "Enter Sandman"
  • "Fade to Black"
  • "Fight Fire with Fire"
  • "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
  • "Frantic"
  • "Fuel"
  • "Hit the Lights"
  • "King Nothing"
  • "Master of Puppets"
  • "Mercyful Fate"
  • "My Apocalypse" (DLC)
  • "No Leaf Clover"
  • "Nothing Else Matters"
  • "One"
  • "Orion"
  • "Sad but True"
  • "Seek and Destroy"
  • "The Memory Remains"
  • "The Shortest Straw"
  • "The Thing That Should Not Be"
  • "The Unforgiven"
  • "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"
  • "Wherever I May Roam"
  • "Whiplash"

Songs by Other Artists:

  • Alice In Chains - "No Excuses"
  • Bob Seger - "Turn the Page"
  • Corrosion of Conformity - "Albatross"
  • Diamond Head - "Am I Evil?"
  • Foo Fighters - "Stacked Actors"
  • Judas Priest - "Hell Bent for Leather"
  • Kyuss - "Demon Cleaner"
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Tuesday's Gone"
  • Machine Head - "Beautiful Mourning"
  • Mastodon - "Blood and Thunder"
  • Mercyful Fate - "Evil"
  • Michael Schenker Group - "Armed and Ready"
  • Motorhead - "Ace of Spades"
  • Queen - "Stone Cold Crazy"
  • Samhain - "Mother of Mercy"
  • Slayer - "War Ensemble"
  • Social Distortion - "Mommy's Little Monster"
  • Suicidal Tendencies - "War Inside My Head"
  • System of a Down - "Toxicity"
  • The Sword - "Black River"
  • Thin Lizzy - "The Boys Are Back in Town"

The PlayStation 2 and Wii versions of Guitar Hero: Metallica had the added bonus of a few tracks from Metallica's well-received 2008 album, Death Magnetic - oft-referred to as a return to Metallica's roots. PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners were able to download these songs as additional content for Guitar Hero: Metallica.

Guitar Hero: Metallica features almost 50 tracks, roughly 20 of which were songs by other bands, including Queen and Foo Fighters. The songs by other bands featured in the game were said to be heavy personal influences to Metallica, who played a big part in the creation of the game itself - going so far as providing motion capture for their on-screen avatars.

Metallica confirmed their ubiquity as pop culture icons, not just by branching out into video games with Guitar Hero: Metallica, but also with their 2013 concert movie Metallica Through the Never. Whilst Guitar Hero: Metallica was criticized due to its substandard graphics and lack of downloadable content beyond a few songs from Death Magnetic, the game still sits pretty on review aggregate websites like Metacritic, where it has a score of 86/100.

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