Activision announces Guitar Hero III songs for GH: Smash Hits @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on May 04, 2009

News: Eight songs from GH3 made the cut, including "Through The Fire And Flames."

Another week, another announcement from Activision about another batch of tracks for Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. The polling at SmashHits.GuitarHero.com has been tabulated for the week and the fans have spoken, they want to know which songs from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock made the cut.

Eight songs from the third Guitar Hero game (and first one developed by Neversoft) will be included in the full band greatest hits package. They are:

AFI - "Miss Murder"

Pat Benatar - "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"

DragonForce - "Through The Fire And Flames"

Heart - "Barracuda"

Kiss - "Rock And Roll All Nite"

Living Colour - "Cult Of Personality"

Priestess - "Lay Down"

Slayer - "Raining Blood"

Of the 48 tracks Activision plans to include in Smash Hits, 41 have been revealed, leaving seven tracks from Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (of which two, "I Wanna Rock" by Twisted Sister and "Nothin But A Good Time" by Poison have been revealed). The full list of the other confirmed tracks can be found right here:

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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 ╓yster 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"

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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"

MЎtley Cr№e- "Shout At The Devil"

Guitar Hero: Smash Hits is being developed by Beenox and will be released on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 on June 16.