“Let’s get ready to rock!!!” Don’t you ever undermine this statement because in this Guitar Hero you’ll be rocking all night long – that’s only if you can keep you fingers from melting off.

According to Joystiq, Activision has confirmed to them that Guitar Hero: Van Halen is indeed in development and will release sometime during the second half of this year.

Activision could not confirm any songs, and only said the game will contain Van Halen’s “greatest hits,” as well as guest acts such as Queen, Weezer, Blink-182, The Offspring, Queens of the Stone Age, and more.

However, they were told by Activision’s Senior Vice President of Global Brand Management that, “… this is definitely Van Halen, not Van Hagar,” which is a plus since David Lee Roth is back with the band and they just finished a successful tour.

In addition, they revealed that there’s a very slim chance that the rockers might show up at E3 2009.

With Guitar Hero: Metallica on the edge of releasing, Activision needs some way of advertising the game. So what’s a better way to advertising then having the same style as the Guitar Hero: World Tour commercials, but with a Metallica twist?

 That’s why they have revealed the newest sets of commercials for Guitar Hero: Metallica advertising in that matter. But, one of the commercials features legendary NCAA coaches Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams, Rick Pitino and Bob Knight, along with Metallica.

Update: If you downloaded the “Death Magnetic” album for Xbox and PS3, those ten songs will play in their entirety in the full game mode. PS2 and Wii versions (coming in the Spring, most likely in early May) will include “Broken Beat & Scarred,” “Cyanide” and “My Apocalypse” since they are not compatible with the Death Magnetic downloadable content.

Original: What can one say, when there’s something you need just call upon a god and they’ll have  what you have been waiting for, and, lucky, that’s exactly what we did, but we went to a band of gods, rock gods.

Today, on the official Metallica, it revealed the full tracklist for their upcoming video game, Guitar Hero: Metallica. The list was, reportedly, suppose to be revealed next week, but sometimes, I quest, even gods get impatient.

Metallica Songs

All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

Other Artists

Alice In Chains – No Excuses
Bob Seger – Turn The Page
Corrosion of Conformity – Albatross
Diamond Head – Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters – Stacked Actors
Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
Kyuss – Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesdays Gone
Machine Head – Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon – Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate – Evil
Michael Schenker Group – Armed and Ready
Motorhead – Ace of Spades
Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain – Mother of Mercy
Slayer – War Ensemble
Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
Suicidal Tendencies – War Inside My Head
System of a Down – Toxicity
The Sword – Black River
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town

Update: Metallica has revealed the games full track list.

Original: Once again, new Guitar Hero: Metallica tracks are leaked, but not by a member of the press, or even a ‘source close to Activision’, the ESRB. Anyway, we know that the full track is, reportedly, coming next week, but this is to juicy to pass up on.

According to the ESRB’s description, Guitar Hero: Metallica features some potentially objectionable lyrics. Specifically in Social Distortion’s “Mommy’s Little Monster,” Metallica’s “Whiplash” and Diamond Head’s “Am I Evil?” which Metallica covered on 1984′s Garage Days Revisited.

In the description was also nice enough to point out ‘bad words’ in Michael Shenker Group’s “Armed and Ready,” a track already revealed by Game Informer magazine.

[More Guitar Hero: Metallica Tracks Revealed By ESRB via Kotaku]

I can say it many times over, “when will we be getting a chance to play this game?” But, none the less, it looks like it’s going to be happening a bit soon then many of us have problemly though. And, lucky, we be able to rock harder then ever, because it’s Metallica baby!

According to the band’s website, Guitar Hero: Metallica will be heading to North America on March 29, both on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but other then that, the rest of the world with have to wait until sometime in May. And for the PS2 and Wii versions they’ll “also most likely in early May.”

The game is set to improve the ‘plastic guitarists with a challenging experience that will push even veterans of the Guitar Hero franchise.’

But, one can only wait and see what they have to show from this very impressive, but yet to be shown, title.

It came as no shock when this game was revealed, after Activision’s earlier trys with the sweet love band Aerosmith, it was just left when they were planning to release it. Now, however today we finally get a good look at Guitar Hero: Metallica in the form of a trailer,  not a teaser trailer.

“Us being a pretty guitar-oriented band, I think we were pretty much destined to do something with Guitar Hero,” says guitarist Kirk Hammett of Metallica. “It’s a natural sort of relationship. We jumped at the chance.”