Greetings Rocksmith fans!
Well, looks like this Tuesday we’ll be getting tracks from a band with members of Creed that managed to be much, much better than Creed. That’s right, it’s an Alter Bridge 4-pack!
Earlier in the week, Mr. Dan Amrich left us one of the most cryptic hints yet:
Amidst guesses of Sublime, The Black Keys, Dethklok, Franz Ferdinand, Spinal Tap, and countless other bands that could have all fit the clue, as well as lines of confusing code and generally cryptic hints, Ox1a4toke found an image embedded within that black square.
Over on our side, we had our guess…
https://t.co/MCDUI66BFR = http://t.co/fdWWQFwbFz ???
— TheRiffRepeater (@TheRiffRepeater) April 25, 2014
…but that was ultimately proven wrong. Finally, bubka122 guessed Alter Bridge, and the game was complete at last. We found out that we’d be receiving an Alter Bridge 4-pack.
Addicted to Pain
More often than not, when a band has a recent album out, they like to promote that recent album. What better way to do so than with some music game DLC! Here we have the first single from the 2013 album Fortress, and boy is it a great one. With a ripping guitar part, it’s a perfect fit for Rocksmith!
Blackbird
Dan explicitly stated that this song was coming in his forum post, so naturally we had to include it in the post!
Come to Life
Did you ever play Guitar Hero: Van Halen? If you did, then you’ll remember this great song that totally made sense in a game devoted to the music of 70s/80s arena rock band Van Halen!
Ties That Bind
Do you agree with our choices or do you think we’re absolutely nuts? Let us know in the comments!
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Getting the type of riffs Alter Bridge plays to sound crisp and clean is a challenge for me, I look forward to working on this style of riffage come tuesday 🙂
The hunt for the Dlc was epic this week on the Ubi’s forum, and it was a lot of fun, but i’m a bit disappointed it finish with that band i don’t really like..
it gives me suicidal tendencies..!
and so, i have been searching on Deezer (a very famous streaming music site in france), and Alter Bridge has 55 552 fans, when Suicidal Tendencies has 17 582… 🙁
very sad world we live…
Suicidal Tendencies rocks! IMO However the word “Suicidal” probably keeps it from being marketable by Rocksmith. Rocksmith goes for mainstream mediocrity it seems.
Because Alter Bridge is really mainstream…
Well if you see the last months’s DLC you have a lot of variety. Sure Suicidal Tendencies is great, but there are many other bands which are too.
Just ask them on twitter, maybe there’s some Suicidal Tendencies coming?
BTW Maroon 5 was mainstream mediocrity.
Maroon 5 is past mediocre and delves deeper in crapitude. Twitter cries with mediocrity and needs to die since NSA pretty much camp it on a regular basis.
i don’t have twitter, so i can’t ask them directly.. if you have one, feel free to ask them! but i did use their “request a song app”… several times!
Suicidal tendencies, with their name and lyrics, could be difficultly marketable, but
Institutionalized was in guitar hero 2.. so, i still have a hope..! 🙂
BTW marron5 is close to unlistenable…
Don’t really listen to Alter Bridge but I remember liking their Guitar Hero songs well enough. They seem really well suited to Rocksmith so I’ll see how I like the songs they ended up picking and consider getting the pack based on that.
I’m so happy! I’ve been a huge fan of Alter Bridge since the beginning. Learning to play these songs will be difficult, but rewarding. I can’t stop watching live AB videos on YouTube now, Tuesday can’t come soon enough.
Coming up with a 4 pack is so difficult.
Maybe:
1) Blackbird
2) Isolation or Addicted to Pain
3) Maybe something a bit more beginner friendly like Rise Today
4) One of the two songs from GH (But in this case,why wouldn’t it just be a 5 pack? 😛
My vote is for:
Cry of Achilles
Isolation
Watch Over You
Ghost of Days Gone By
I want to understand why Rocksmith picks certain music. I want to like Rocksmith choices but unfortunately I cannot. Maybe Rocksmith could offer a way of voting in from a list of choices somehow we the players at least feel we have influence.
They do have the Facebook app that you can submit songs on. But considering the design team is very active on twitter, I’d say that this DLC is the result of about the five people that have been begging them for it. Also, living in America I didn’t realize until awhile ago, but they’re huge in Europe (I believe around as big as Avenged Sevenfold is here), so it’ll go over very well there. They headlined an arena tour over Shinedown and Halestorm.
No thanks. Seems like some boring bass
Doesn’t seem that interesting for this bass player, i’ll pass.
Agreed
This song could be fun
Yeah… The bass on Ties That Bind is literally only going on all the time… Mr. Marshall is actually a brilliant bassist. Don’t judge him on Creed. Or are you one for some golden gates rather?
Tremonti is pretty good. I’ll allow it.
i’m really getting sick of ubisoft’s dlc silverchair was the best thing to happen since the boston pack everything else including this alter bridge is complete crap and should be 50cents not 3 dollars
WHERE’S RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE WHERE’S SLIPKNOT WHERE’S DEFTONES THIS GAME CLAIMS TO BE “ROCK”SMITH BUT I HAVEN’T SEEN ANY ROCK DLC IN OVER A MONTH JUST GARBAGE THAT SHOULD BE IN THE DUMPSTER
Ow the edge.
I totally get not like Alter Bridge and all, but to say they somehow aren’t “rock” is beyond ridiculous. At least all those times people moaned about Rock Band’s DLC not fitting in *ROCK* Band it was for songs that were actually in other genres.
Moar Nirvana?
Moar RHCP?
Moar Deftones?
RATM?
Nope, let’s put some unknown alt metal band…
Seriously
i agree 100% there’s putting out all this garbage and people are all
😛 over it so there holding all the good stuff like the bands you mentioned till people stop downloading the junk
This is going to sell amazingly in Europe, they’re huge over there.
yeah, i don’t know…
i listen to metal since like 20 years and i never heard about them, neither my friends did… but that’s maybe because we don’t listen to “radio metal”..
but as i can see, they have a big fans base in here.. well… 😐
i’m still glad if some people like it and buy this DLC, so Ubi gets more money, and maybe they will use it to license (again for some of those) the bands that Floder mentioned..
i’m still waiting for RATM badly..
Alter Bridge? Unknown? Yeah, they’re less known than Nirvana/RHCP/Deftones/RATM. For a relatively newer band, they’re pretty well known. They have a HUGE live following.
Yes I am very happy Alter Bridge.
Overwhelming excitement. Will buy any song that is included.
I have been waiting for this day (tuesday) for months.
Happy Rocksmithing to all.
edit: just wanted to add, as much as I was wishing for AB in rocksmith, I didn’t have very high hopes considering Myles Kennedy is Slash’s vocalist, and was featured already on Bandfuse. I thought for sure Bandfuse would have scored them just with that affiliation. R.I.P. bandfuse
I had the same thought about AB DLC, maybe Hendrix will come to RS in 2014 after all (RHCP and Soundgarden got packs in Rock Band due to Guitar Hero exclusivity cut short from the death of that franchise).
And that’s a fact? Or something you’ve made up?
That’s pretty cool :p
I hope your choice will be there because it’s pretty cool! (I absolutely want Ties That Bind – or Ties that Blind as a lot of people once said in their life.
I don’t know this band, but these are going to be fun and challenging to learn, so I’m happy!
challening is freebird not this band its just pretend hard rock nothing difficult but powerchords and weak 20 second solos
Why do people make up blatant lies about DLC just to justify their hatred for it? Is it that important for you to rain on other people’s parade that you have to go beyond criticisms based in reality?
You are aware Freebird is like 50% acoustic chords on the Rocksmith chart? People don’t all want what you do , be happy the game is getting any support and that enough people are supporting Ubisoft to give them the opportunity to provide even more DLC in the future.
The tab of freebird is bad in Rocksmith unfortunately, also miss a guitar 😥
Freebird = challenging, Hangar 18, Satch Boogie, Cliffs of Dover = INSANE!
Absolutely brilliant. Best yet by a mile. Can pick any of theur songs they are all brilliant.
I am the greatest!
I’ve never heard of Alter Bridge, so I am glad I could listen to the speculation songs. Wow! This band is incredible!!! I can’t wait to play some of these songs! (Thanks ToyMachinesh for all the hard work you and everyone else at TRR does for the RS fans!) I had to have some surgeries in January, and I am in the hospital recovering from my 3rd surgery since. I have barely been able to pick up my guitars since and am itching to play again, but I have been keeping up with DLC and always check this site on Friday/Saturday for news. Thanks again TRR!
Thank you for your support, it means a lot to us! Hope you recover fast and get back to playing 😀
My guess is exactly the same as the creator of this article (there has only been 2 songs in music games):
Ties That Bind
Come to Life
Blackbird
Addicted to Pain
Good speculation: I hope Ties that bind in the pack
Hell yeah! Mark Tremonti.
Awesome!
I hope for Metalingus…it will always remind me of Edge
Best entrance Song ever ❗
Cheesy annoying pop metal!! Super! I want 2 dozens and a pack of tampons!
And you party-poopers thought it was slayer…Gonna need barf bags this week..
How is Alter Bridge pop metal?
Alter bridge is Alternative metal friend 😀
Of course they are.
You don’t know your genres very well, do you?
I’m guessing you think that they’re pop metal because they have a vocalist who lives up to his job description?
guys pop metal was barely a compliment to this ridiculous band. They are nothing but metal for low self-steemed teens and pms chicks. They don’t belong to any genre, they’re androginous crap…
I’m not a fan of Miles Kennedy’s voice, but what’s with the weird misogyny in your post? “Pms chicks”?
Agree with Mocha. Would you please cite the survey that found what those two demographics like musically? Your comments aren’t adding anything to the conversation.
Myles Kennedy is an awesome singer, good choice.
I am not in the crowd 😉
This will definitely be a crowd pleaser. My 4-Pack:
Blackbird
Isolation
Metalingus
Ties That Bind