October 18, 2007
Guitar
Hero Recordings Available For Digital Download
Featuring the in-game song
recordings performed and produced by music collective WaveGroup
Today WaveGroup
www.wavegroup.com,
the award-winning collective of musicians and studio professionals who produced
the song recordings for the video games Guitar Hero , Guitar Hero II, and
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80s , announced The Guitar Hero
Recordings will be available for digital download on October 23rd, 2007.
Millions of Guitar Hero fans are intimately familiar with these recordings
and now have a new way to enjoy them. WaveGroup has partnered with digital
distribution company INGrooves to secure distribution for the seven volumes of
The Guitar Hero Recordings on music download sites including AOL, iTunes,
Napster, Rhapsody, and Yahoo!.
WaveGroup produced virtually all of
the music for Guitar Hero , Guitar Hero II, and Guitar Hero Encore
Rocks The 80s and worked closely with Harmonix Music Systems and Red
Octane® to develop the original playable guitar parts. To optimize the player’s
gameplay experience, WaveGroup arranged, performed and produced enhanced
versions of many songs, adding cool guitar solos, interesting guitar flourishes,
and custom endings. Dozens of musicians, producers and mixers were involved in
the creation of the 97 songs which are all included in The Guitar Hero
Recordings:
The Guitar Hero Recordings Volume I
The Guitar Hero Recordings
Volume II T
he Guitar Hero II Recordings
Volume I
The Guitar Hero II Recordings
Volume II
The Guitar Hero II Recordings
Volume III
The Guitar Hero 80s Recordings
Volume I The Guitar Hero 80s Recordings Volume II
Please visit
www.wavegroup.com/gh_songlists for the complete songlist of each
volume.
"It was a blast recording these
great rock tunes and we wanted to make the Guitar Hero versions available to
everyone," said Will Littlejohn, President/CEO of WaveGroup and Lead Music
Producer for Guitar Hero , Guitar Hero II, and Guitar Hero Encore
Rocks The 80s . "In addition to experiencing these tracks when playing the
games, we’re excited that fans can now load up the in-game renditions on their
iPods.”
WaveGroup’s in-demand recordings
from Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II have garnered numerous awards
including Best Soundtrack at the Spike TV Video Game Awards, Outstanding
Achievement in Soundtrack from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, and
Best Soundtrack at the BAFTA Games Awards.
