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- The headline facts (what you need to know fast)
- Why this setlist still slaps
- The complete on-disc setlist (93)
- What the mix looks like (by era & energy)
- Difficulty & charts: where the plastic truly melts
- Quest Mode, plus imports & DLC (the bonus gravy)
- What critics and the press said at launch
- How to enjoy the setlist today
- Tips to tackle the toughest songs
- Final take
- Conclusion (SEO pack)
- 500-word experience & strategy add-on: living with the Warriors of Rock setlist in 2025
If you’ve been itching to dust off your plastic axe and chase star power like it’s 2010 again, you’re in the right place. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock ships with one of the biggest, boldest on-disc lineups in rhythm-game history. Below you’ll find the complete setlist (all 93 tracks!), plus the story behind the headlinersRush’s legendary “2112,” Megadeth’s fiendish finale, and Soundgarden’s surprise comeback tie-inalong with smart, modern tips for playing the set today.
The headline facts (what you need to know fast)
- On-disc tracks: 93 songs by 85 artists, confirmed by Activision and multiple outlets.
- Release & platforms: September 28, 2010 (North America) on Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii.
- Design brief: Leaner focus on rock (punk/alt/classic) and a tougher setlist overall to satisfy Expert-level players.
- Quest Mode highlights: A story-driven campaign narrated by Gene Simmons featuring Rush’s seven-part “2112” as a mid-game centerpiece.
Why this setlist still slaps
Rush’s “2112”: a 20-minute prog milestone built into the campaign
The game doesn’t just include “2112”it stages a dedicated venue and narrative interlude around it, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson narrating the suite’s storyline. It’s a crowd-pleasing, guitar-first marathon that feels custom-made for the series’ note-highway theatrics.
Megadeth’s “Sudden Death”: composed to be your final boss
Dave Mustaine wrote “Sudden Death” specifically for Warriors of Rock, and the chart delivers exactly what you’d expect: meter-twisting riffs, surgical alternate-picking, and endurance testing from the first measure. Many outlets still call it one of the franchise’s hardest clears.
Soundgarden’s “Black Rain” and the Telephantasm deal that went platinum
“Black Rain” was Soundgarden’s first new single in 13 yearsand it landed on the disc the same week the band’s Telephantasm compilation went platinum on day one thanks to a unique bundle with the game. This wasn’t just a track drop; it was a music-industry experiment that worked.
The complete on-disc setlist (93)
Here’s the full list as confirmed at launch. Consider this your practice roadmap and party-night playlist in one.
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- A Perfect Circle – “The Outsider”
- Aerosmith – “Cryin’”
- AFI – “Dancing Through Sunday”
- Alice Cooper – “No More Mr. Nice Guy”
- Alter Bridge – “Ties That Bind”
- Anberlin – “Feel Good Drag”
- Anthrax – “Indians”
- Arch Enemy – “Nemesis”
- Atreyu – “Ravenous”
- Avenged Sevenfold – “Bat Country”
- Bad Brains – “Re-Ignition (Live)”
- Band of Skulls – “I Know What I Am”
- Black Sabbath – “Children of the Grave”
- Blind Melon – “Tones of Home”
- Blue Öyster Cult – “Burnin’ for You”
- Bush – “Machinehead”
- Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?”
- Children of Bodom – “If You Want Peace… Prepare for War”
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Fortunate Son”
- Deep Purple – “Burn”
- Def Leppard – “Pour Some Sugar on Me (Live)”
- Dethklok – “Bloodlines”
- Dire Straits – “Money for Nothing”
- DragonForce – “Fury of the Storm”
- Drowning Pool – “Bodies”
- Fall Out Boy – “Dance, Dance”
- Five Finger Death Punch – “Hard to See”
- Flyleaf – “Again”
- Foo Fighters – “No Way Back”
- Foreigner – “Feels Like the First Time”
- George Thorogood and The Destroyers – “Move It On Over (Live)”
- Interpol – “Slow Hands”
- Jane’s Addiction – “Been Caught Stealing”
- Jethro Tull – “Aqualung”
- John 5 feat. Jim Root – “Black Widow of La Porte”
- KISS – “Love Gun”
- Linkin Park – “Bleed It Out”
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Call Me the Breeze (Live)”
- Megadeth – “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”
- Megadeth – “Sudden Death”
- Megadeth – “This Day We Fight!”
- Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne – “Paranoid (Live)”
- Muse – “Uprising”
- My Chemical Romance – “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”
- Neil Young – “Rockin’ in the Free World”
- Nickelback – “How You Remind Me”
- Night Ranger – “(You Can Still) Rock in America”
- Nine Inch Nails – “Wish”
- Orianthi – “Suffocated”
- Pantera – “I’m Broken”
- Phoenix – “Lasso”
- Poison – “Unskinny Bop”
- Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”
- Queensrÿche – “Jet City Woman”
- R.E.M. – “Losing My Religion”
- RX Bandits – “It’s Only Another Parsec…”
- Rammstein – “Waidmanns Heil”
- Rise Against – “Savior”
- Rush – “2112 Pt. 1 – Overture”
- Rush – “2112 Pt. 2 – The Temples of Syrinx”
- Rush – “2112 Pt. 3 – Discovery”
- Rush – “2112 Pt. 4 – Presentation”
- Rush – “2112 Pt. 5 – Oracle: The Dream”
- Rush – “2112 Pt. 6 – Soliloquy”
- Rush – “2112 Pt. 7 – Grand Finale”
- Silversun Pickups – “There’s No Secrets This Year”
- Slash feat. Iggy Pop – “We’re All Gonna Die”
- Slash feat. Ian Astbury and Izzy Stradlin – “Ghost”
- Slayer – “Chemical Warfare”
- Slipknot – “Psychosocial”
- Snot – “Deadfall”
- Soundgarden – “Black Rain”
- Steve Vai – “Speeding”
- Stone Temple Pilots – “Interstate Love Song”
- Strung Out – “Calling”
- Styx – “Renegade”
- Sum 41 – “Motivation”
- Tesla – “Modern Day Cowboy”
- Third Eye Blind – “Graduate”
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Listen to Her Heart”
- The Cure – “Fascination Street”
- The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants”
- The Edgar Winter Group – “Free Ride”
- The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”
- The Offspring – “Self Esteem”
- The Ramones – “Theme From Spiderman”
- The Rolling Stones – “Stray Cat Blues”
- The Runaways – “Cherry Bomb”
- The Vines – “Get Free”
- The White Stripes – “Seven Nation Army”
- Them Crooked Vultures – “Scumbag Blues”
- Twisted Sister – “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
- ZZ Top – “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”
What the mix looks like (by era & energy)
The curation balances ’70s classic rock (Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Deep Purple’s “Burn,” Stones’ “Stray Cat Blues”) with ’90s alt (Jane’s Addiction, R.E.M., STP) and 2000s radio mainstays (Muse, The White Stripes, Linkin Park). Metal heads aren’t left out eitherthere’s Slayer, Pantera, and DragonForce to keep your forearm screaming.
Difficulty & charts: where the plastic truly melts
- Endgame gauntlet: Megadeth’s “Sudden Death” and “Holy Wars…,” plus DragonForce’s “Fury of the Storm,” are notorious climb-walls for Expert players.
- Overall tuning: The developers intentionally skewed harder than prior entries, reflecting how quickly the player base reached Expert in earlier games.
Quest Mode, plus imports & DLC (the bonus gravy)
Beyond the on-disc 93, launch-window players could import Guitar Hero: Metallica content (39 tracks) during a limited free window, and the game launched into a large DLC ecosystemTelephantasm tracks included. It gave the setlist real legs for party nights long after day one.
What critics and the press said at launch
- Confirmation & scope: GameSpot published (and then confirmed) the 93-song list; outlets like Kotaku and Game Informer echoed the breadth and named big tentpoles like Muse’s “Uprising.”
- Signature collabs: Press highlighted the Rush suite and Mustaine’s commissioned finale as unique to this entry.
- Music-industry angle: Billboard, WSJ, and WIRED covered the Soundgarden bundle’s platinum twistrare crossover news for a rhythm game.
How to enjoy the setlist today
Playing in 2025? Good news for Wii loyalists: accessory maker Hyperkin announced a new, Wii-compatible guitar controller this year, giving retro players a fresh (and affordable) way back onto the highway. On Xbox 360 and PS3, you’ll likely be sourcing used gearcalibration and strum bar maintenance matter more than ever.
Tips to tackle the toughest songs
- Chunking over heroics: For “Fury of the Storm,” practice solo sections in 10–15-second loops; aim for clean transitions between tapping sequences and alt-picking bursts.
- Star Power discipline: On “Sudden Death,” route SP to stabilize the trickiest polyrhythms; prioritize sections with dense red-yellow trills to keep your meter alive.
- Strum control: “(You Can Still) Rock in America” and “Self Esteem” punish sloppy rhythmlock your down-up pattern before you chase score multipliers.
Final take
As a package, Warriors of Rock is the franchise at maximum guitar-centric swagger: a towering setlist, a prog-rock showpiece baked into the story, and a finale penned by thrash royalty. Whether you’re chasing five-stars or just reliving the living-room-tour glory days, this is the one that still feels like an event.
Conclusion (SEO pack)
sapo: Guitar Hero’s most guitar-centric entry goes big: 93 songs spanning classic rock, ’90s alt, and metal, anchored by Rush’s full “2112,” capped by a Megadeth original, and boosted by Soundgarden’s headline-making bundle. Explore the complete setlist, what made it special, and how to shred it today.
500-word experience & strategy add-on: living with the Warriors of Rock setlist in 2025
Booting up Warriors of Rock today is a time capsule and a technical warm-up all at once. The first sensation is muscle memory: your hands remember down-up patterns in “Self Esteem,” how to feather HOPOs in “Seven Nation Army,” and where “Bohemian Rhapsody” sneaks in chord changes that force a quick position shift. The setlist is long enough to be a weekend project; chunk it into themed sessions. Night one: party-friendly anthems (Tom Petty, Stones, CCR, Queen). Night two: alt-rock grooves (R.E.M., STP, Interpol, Muse). Save the Megadeth/DragonForce gauntlet for a final-night showdown.
Controller reality check: if you’re on Wii, the brand-new Hyperkin guitar gives you a modern, warranty-backed way back into the scenegreat for new players who skipped the 2000s peripherals. Xbox 360 and PS3 owners can still find Les Paul or X-plorer guitars used; look for clean strum bars (no double-strums) and tight tilt sensors. A little isopropyl and a Phillips screwdriver can rescue a creaky whammy bar. Calibrate audio/video every time you change displays; an extra 30–40 ms of lag can turn “Renegade” from crisp to chaos.
Progression advice for mixed-skill groups: let newer players enjoy early tiers like Johnny Napalm’s punk block and Austin Tejas’s classic-rock venues. Veterans can rotate in on the “2112” suiteits pacing makes it deceptively forgiving once you learn the motifs. Pro-tip: identify your personal “insurance” songscharts you can no-miss on Hard/Expert to bank stars for Quest progression. On “Bleed It Out,” stay relaxed; the chart looks busier than it feels thanks to repeated rhythmic motifs. For “Fascination Street,” focus on consistent strum spacing; it’s a metronome test, not a finger-twister.
Score-chasing? Build routes where Star Power lands on dense choruses (“Rockin’ in the Free World”) and solo clusters (Megadeth, DragonForce). Learn to frontload multipliers with early-phrase SP to stabilize nerves on songs with treacherous openings (“Modern Day Cowboy”). If you’re streaming or hosting a living-room “tour,” sequence 3-song mini-sets with energy arcsstart with a hook (“Listen to Her Heart”), escalate with a medium-hard banger (“Tick Tick Boom”), and close with a sing-along (“We’re Not Gonna Take It”). That arc keeps non-players engaged and saves your fingers for the real bosses later.
Finally, embrace the breadth. One night you’re counting in triplets on “Aqualung”; the next you’re chugging palm-mutes on “Waidmanns Heil.” That stylistic swing is the set’s secret sauce. It teaches timing across genres, forces you to maintain posture and economy of motion, andmost importantlyreminds you that plastic guitars were always about joy. Fire up “Ghost,” tilt for Star Power, and let the living room become your arena. The setlist holds up because it was built for that feeling.
