Greetings Rocksmith Ghouls and Ghosts!
This week’s Spoooooky DLC contains two new additions to Rocksmith 2014 and two singles from previous artists! Let’s take a look at what we’re getting in advance of the spookiest night of the year!
We start off with those scary, evil Canadians and their band Billy Talent! They bring, from 2009’s Billy Talent III, the song Devil on My Shoulder (not to be confused with the similarly titled Devil in a Midnight Mass, which was released as part of the first Billy Talent pack)! Plus, this is as close as we’re probably going to get to Led Zeppelin.
Now we head south towards Los Angeles and meet up with Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo. As New Wave is a criminally under-represented genre in Rocksmith, it’s always great to see more of it come to the game. This week it comes to us in the form of the title track from their 1985 album, it’s Dead Man’s Party!
Next, we go across the Atlantic where we meet the ULTIMATE metal band! Yes, Motörhead return to Rocksmith. The NWOBHM legends first appeared in the Classic Riff Singles week with the legendary track Ace of Spades. This week, the equally amazing Killed by Death joins the lineup. While it originally appeared on 1984’s No Remorse, it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that we could be receiving the 2008 re-record that was done for Rock Band given that’s what we got for Ace of Spades.
We stay in Europe for our final artist, moving East as we go to The Netherlands. It’s not quite making it’s rhythm game debut, but the original, 6 minute masterpiece is! It’s one of the most requested songs in rhythm game history! It’s guaranteed to be a workout for all your fingers! It’s the first yodelling song in the game! From 1971’s Moving Waves it’s none other than Hocus Pocus by Focus!
Spooktacular Singles – $9.99 / Steam
- Billy Talent “Devil on My Shoulder“ – Drop D – [XBL] / Steam
- Focus “Hocus Pocus” – Alt. Lead – [XBL] / Steam
- Motörhead “Killed by Death“ – Eb Standard – [XBL] / Steam
- Oingo Boingo “Dead Man’s Party” – [XBL] / Steam
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So tell us, are you filling your bag with these treats, or are you leaving the lights off and pretending you’re not home? Let us know in the comments!
nice to get another billy talent song so randomly. Does one have to wear a wife beater shirt to play oingo boingo?
MOTORHEAD! What a good surprise, I’ll bye certally
“Witch Hunt” by Rush would have been great.
2 out 4 is not bad but It could definitely be better, billy talent was a bad choice for this pack after the awful pop punk we got last week. It is kind of hard to wash the taste of awful pop punk with more pop punk, even if billy talent is better. oingo boingo was an awful choice as well. Rocksmith needs to step it up on dlc, They started slipping big time with brand new and all time low song packs and kind of came back with kiss. This week is meh at best but miles above last week.
Well I couldn’t carte less about Billy (not much) Talent, but the other 3, brilliant! Still annoyed we don’t have a full Motorhead pack though. But yeah, 3 great songs there, I’m happy!
I got the four pack as it was only an extra 82p. I maybe was unfair to Billy Talent, I will use this track to give him/them a fair go.
Billy Talent? That sure was unexpected.
I also have only ever heard of 2 of the bands & only 1 of the songs, big rock music fan etc etc but I am guessing I am in the majority here ? I will be nice about it & just say I am dissapointed and not f@!*ing infuriated like last week.
Better than last week for sure, it’s kind of my genre of music but unfortunately nothing I like enough to want to play 🙁 Next week – Can we have The Cult or how about U2 lol I know – no chance, but let’s be honest it’s doubtful your requests are going fulfilled the option is just a token gesture – keep filling up the bargain bin RS.
Great stuff, f the haters
Two songs worth buying from the whole month for me.
I hope I am in the minority and most people like this disappointing list of lame dlc.
Maybe next month, we can live in hope. Sighs 🙁
I like how the they do more dancing with the guitars, then they do playing in the OB vid.
Beware, there be mistakes above ^^
Decent songs, but I was really hoping to see I’ve Put a Spell on You (CCR), Time Warp from TRHPS, or one of the rock versions of the songs from Nightmare Before Christmas all of those bands did a few years back.
The Billy Talent and Focus riffs are sweet but again with the annoying vocals. Motorhead…meh idk wtf that 80s synth shit is. Out of all the amazing Halloweenish songs, this is what we get? The kiss pack would’ve made more sense. I hope ubi is saving their cash up for something big.
Not to be negative, but Boooooooooooo.
Halloween themed negativity at that, lol!
of all the possabilities.. more Billy Talent is a prety huge let down tbh.
I’m really happy to see that song appear as I was hoping it was going to be in the song pack for Billy Talent released on Canada Day.
It’s a really great riffy song with a fun solo
I was definitely not expecting billy talent to randomly appear again, but I’ve been hoping for this song for a long time! Very happy 😀
Not sure how I feel about this pack yet, but I’ll check out the tracks for sure.
Not even the one Motorhead song can save this train wreck of a pack. Seems pretty clear that October has been the worst month of the year, so much lost opportunity here.
Killed By Death is an awesome Motorhead song.
It is an awesome song – but I’m not sure about the recording they used here. It feels slower than the original Bronze recording, and Phil/Wurzel definitely sound off their game on the guitar solos.
Either way, it’s Motorhead – I’ll pick it up and hope for a pure Motorhead pack one day (especially if they can license Bronze’s recording of Stay Clean! – I’ve already requested it several times).
Much like “Ace Of Spades” it’s an 2008 re-record
I will pick up that oingo boingo track. The lead guitar sounds cool. The rest of the pack is pretty meh, got my hopes up for the time ward.
Oingo Boingo at long last. Seeing that made my week. Hope it sells well and I’ll keep praying to the Rocksmith gods for a pack.
A very big mehhhhh
More shit. This is getting old.
This is like the Libertines for the 4th of July to me. Oh well, maybe next week.
So it’s a bunch of songs that are fun on both rhythm and lead? Cool
Got ’em.
Hocus Pocus made it to a playlist I guess. I will probably pick that one up at some point. The others might be fun for some, I was just really hoping for something else. Oh well, maybe next week.
Not going to lie, I don’t recognise a single song out of this pack.
Good thing you can listen to them through the links in the article 🙂
Yes!! Billy Talent! Wasn’t expecting that.