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2007: A Year In Review

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Guitar Hero III:

SPB Expansion Pack

Every year there is a video game that rises above all the other games on the market. In previous years we saw games like Grand Theft Auto, Halo, Warcraft and others take the gaming world by storm. The year of 2007 was the year of Guitar Hero III. Like many of you, we also found the lineup of artists enlisted to be rather lackluster in diversity. Below is the Scene Point Blank Expansion Pack: 2007 Edition, which highlights the top songs of 2007 that we'd like to play on Guitar Hero III.

Hardcore/Punk

  • Bad Religion - "Murder"

  • Between the Buried and Me - "Sun of Nothing"

  • Ceremony - "Making with the Stale Air"

  • The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Horse Hunter"

  • Fucked Up - "Year of the Pig"

  • Internal Affairs - "Still Alive"

  • Lifetime - "Airport Monday Morning"

  • Modern Life is War - "Stagger Lee"

  • Shipwreck A.D. - "Ascent"

  • Tim Armstrong - "Hold On"

Metal

  • Andrew W.K. - "You Will Remember Tonight"

  • Animosity - "Operating from the Ditch"

  • Baroness - "Wanderlust"

  • The Black Dahlia Murder - "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse"

  • Down - "N.O.D."

  • High on Fire - "Turk"

  • Jesu - "Conqueror"

  • Municipal Waste - "Headbanger Face Rip"

  • Pelican - "City of Echoes"

  • Pig Destroyer - "Machete Twins"

Rock

  • Battles - "Tonto"

  • Clouds - "Magic Hater"

  • Explosions in the Sky - "It's Natural to be Afraid"

  • Foo Fighters - "Let it Die"

  • Goon Moon - "Feel Like This"

  • Minus the Bear - "Knights"

  • Modest Mouse - "Dashboard"

  • Queens of the Stone Age - "Sick, Sick, Sick"

  • Silverchair - "Mind Reader"

  • The White Stripes - "Icky Thump"

(Michael)

— words by the SPB team

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