Guitar Hero and Rock Band try to drum up new players
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- Guitar Hero and Rock Band try to drum up new players
- Artist profile: Thy Majestie
- State breakout bands perform in Austin
Guitar Hero and Rock Band try to drum up new players
Los Angeles Times
Viacom and Activision Blizzard Inc. which publishes Guitar Hero have unveiled separate plans to keep the party going. Activision intends to release twice as many Guitar Hero games this year as in 2008 starting with a version due out March 29 that features music from heavy metal band Metallica. The Santa Monica game juggernaut also plans to release DJ Hero at the end of the year tapping into a new slice of music fans who are into electronica rap and hip-hop. “For us this is all about expanding into a new genre of music and bringing people into games who have never previously been into music games” said Kai Hwang president of Red ctane the Activision studio responsible for the Guitar Hero franchise. Hwang who acknowledged that sales in North America were starting to cool said the company would make a big push in Europe and Asia by adding bands from those regions to its song lineups. He also said Activision would launch games targeted at discrete music genres segmenting the market the same way the music industry sells records under separate labels.
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Artist profile: Thy Majestie
Examiner.com
Thy Majestie was born out of a band that covered other power metal music. A great deal of work went into finding peripheral members (there’s apparently not much of a metal scene in Sicily) to join keyboard player Giuseppe Bondi and drummer Claudio Diprima. In early 1999 they released their first demo which received a fair amount of attention from the Italian metal community. The band hopped on board with Scarlet Records and released their debut album “The Lasting Power” later that same year. Despite being poorly produced the album received critical acclaim.
State breakout bands perform in Austin
Tulsa World
com for our interview with Stardeath and White Dwarfs as well as an interview with Flaming Lips manager Scott Booker. THE ‘MECCA’ F HAIR METAL: Eighties famed rock band Twisted Sister will be headlining July 12 at Rocklahoma. The hair metal music fest is July 9-12 in Pryor. Twisted Sister celebrates its 25th anniversary of its album “Stay Hungry” which includes rock anthems “We’re Not Going to Take It” and “I Wanna Rock. ” Frontman Dee Snider said in a related press statement: “In every great religion or society there are pilgrimages to be made and homage to be paid. “The Islamic have Mecca the Jews have the Wailing Wall the Catholics have St.
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