Activision have spilt the beans on on the Guitar Hero II tracks that will be featured in the upcoming compilation game Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, and whilst there is no doubting that there are some solid tracks in the line-up I am truly disappointed that neither ‘John the Fisherman’ by Primus or ‘Who Was In My Room Last Night’ by the Butthole Surfers made the final cut.  Luckily such classics as ‘YYZ’ by Rush (which will be interesting to see how they handle the vocals in a instrumental song) and ‘The Trooper’ by Iron Maiden.

Smash Hits is a compilation of tracks from Guitar Hero 1-3 plus Rock the 80′s given the full band makeover using master recordings from the original artists and no more substandard covers.  The tracks included form Guitar Hero II are:-

• Avenged Sevenfold – “Beast And The Harlot”
• Rage Against The Machine – “Killing In The Name”
• Rush – “YYZ”
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Free Bird”
• Foo Fighters – “Monkey Wrench”
• Iron Maiden – “The Trooper”
• Nirvana – “Heart-Shaped Box”
• Lamb of God – “Laid To Rest”
• The Police – “Message In A Bottle”
• Wolfmother – “Woman”
• Kansas – “Carry On Wayward Son”
• Stone Temple Pilots – “Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart”
• Warrant – “Cherry Pie”
• Alice in Chains – “Them Bones”
• Danzig – “Mother”
• Jane’s Addiction – “Stop!”
• Reverend Horton Heat – “Psychobilly Freakout”
• The Sword – “Freya”
• Mötley Crüe – “Shout At The Devil”

See the full tracklisting to date and some more screenshots after the break.

• Pantera – “Cowboys From Hell (Live)”
• Franz Ferdinand – “Take Me Out”
• Queens of the Stone Age – “No One Knows”
• Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – “I Love Rock N’ Roll”
• Boston – “More Than A Feeling”
• White Zombie – “Thunder Kiss ’65″
• Blue Oyster Cult – “Godzilla”
• Helmet – “Unsung (Live)”
• Queen – “Killer Queen”
• Incubus – “Stellar”
• Ozzy Osbourne – “Bark At The Moon”
• Deep Purple – “Smoke On The Water”
• The Donnas – “Take It Off”
• The Exies – “Hey You”
• Avenged Sevenfold – “Beast And The Harlot”
• Rage Against The Machine – “Killing In The Name”
• Rush – “YYZ”
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Free Bird”
• Foo Fighters – “Monkey Wrench”
• Iron Maiden – “The Trooper”
• Nirvana – “Heart-Shaped Box”
• Lamb of God – “Laid To Rest”
• The Police – “Message In A Bottle”
• Wolfmother – “Woman”
• Kansas – “Carry On Wayward Son”
• Stone Temple Pilots – “Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart”
• Warrant – “Cherry Pie”
• Alice in Chains – “Them Bones”
• Danzig – “Mother”
• Jane’s Addiction – “Stop!”
• Reverend Horton Heat – “Psychobilly Freakout”
• The Sword – “Freya”
• Mötley Crüe – “Shout At The Devil”
• “Barracuda” Heart
  
• Twisted Sister – “I Wanna Rock”
  
• Poison – “Nothin But A Good Time”
  
• Dragonforce – “Through the Fire and Flames”
  

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