Guitar Hero II gets DLC: Indie Label Pack II

by Griffin McElroy { Dec 1st 2007 at 7:30PM }

No, that's not a typo -- there really is new downloadable content for Guitar Hero II. The "Indie Label Pack II", which retails for 500 MS Points, includes such non-chart-toppers as "You Should Be Ashamed of Myself" by The Bled, "Memories of the Grove" by Maylene and The Sons of Disaster and "The State of Massachusetts" by Dropkick Murphys.

You may be wondering why new tracks are coming out for Guitar Hero II, and not it's younger, fresher brother. Well, it's easy to forget that while Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero III are technically part of the same series, they belong to two very different developers. We imagine Harmonix is trying to sweeten the deal for those who haven't decided which iteration of the game to pick up for the holiday shopping season.

We're just glad these tracks didn't come to Rock Band -- if your roommate's drunken, warbling impression of Dropkick Murphys frontman Alex Barr doesn't get you kicked out of your apartment, we don't know what will.

Tags: Activision, Guitar-Hero, GuitarHero, Harmonix, Neversoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Redface @ Dec 1st 2007 7:49PM

Dropkick Murphys FTW

Mike @ Dec 1st 2007 8:57PM

I only really liked Do or Die and Gang's All Here... the rest didn't really do anything for me.

jimy @ Dec 2nd 2007 12:22AM

hell ya, but i don't wanna buy this pack for just one song tho :(

Mike, do or die is prob my fav. of their cd's but they can't make a bad cd. (listen to street dogs, Mike McColgan's "newer" band, if you only like the old stuff. I personally welcomed the very Oi! al barr)

sorry for ranting, DKM's my favorite band.

DemonGSides @ Dec 2nd 2007 2:10AM

Shipping up to Boston, or Barroom Hero.

Listening to the latter right now.

Grammar freak @ Dec 3rd 2007 10:17AM

Massachusetts isn't a state.. it's a COMMONWEALTH!

Christian Otte @ Dec 1st 2007 7:55PM

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster? Hell yeah. Already downloaded this.

Shockgamer @ Dec 1st 2007 8:11PM

Unfortunately switching from Guitar Hero 3 and 2 is a bit disorientating for me, which I guess should be a given with the different dev teams. I do miss being able to switch from 1 and 2 without missing a beat.

Redface @ Dec 1st 2007 8:52PM

Really? That's... strange.

Shockgamer @ Dec 2nd 2007 2:03AM

Probably because of GH3's bigger timing windows.

psyborg @ Dec 2nd 2007 4:38AM

No, probably because GH1+GH2 have good notecharts.

mark @ Dec 1st 2007 8:58PM

awesome...buying now. dropkick murphys + guitar hero = fun-drunk video gaming

kmanz001 @ Dec 1st 2007 10:04PM

The Bled!? MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER?!!?!

HECKZ YESZ!

Deffinatly downloading this when I get home.

James @ Dec 1st 2007 10:31PM

So why not release the indie music tracks for Rock Band instead of GHII?

Cale @ Dec 1st 2007 11:08PM

they probably had some content ready for release but with rock band's dlc schdule pretty full just put it out for gh2 beforehand

it could have been planned a long time ago but just released now that harmonix had a few days after the crunch to finish rock band

Patrick @ Dec 1st 2007 11:19PM

i skipped gh2 and bought gh3 to much satisfaction for 360. i then saw they sold ghII disk by itself, so i bought the disk alone for the songs. 160 tax free dollars well spent.

Alcevious @ Dec 1st 2007 11:27PM

SELL OUTS!!!

k04sm02 @ Dec 1st 2007 11:39PM

NOOO just when I had given up on GH2. I wish theyd come out with full albums for DKM. state of mass. is a great song.

Devin @ Dec 2nd 2007 1:42AM

DropKick Murphys...No...
Put a flogging molly song on before them

brandon_r87 @ Dec 2nd 2007 2:39AM

Yes, Flogging Molly is awesome, but I think would not be the best match for GH. Most of their guitar parts are acoustic or on a twelve string, which don't work as well with GH. Also much of their songs depends on strings and flutes and other instruments.

Aside from that, I was totally "meh" until I saw Dropkick Murphys on there. I'll probably get this whenever I take enough time away from Rock Band to go back to GHII.