After years of patient waiting and yearning, my dreams have finally come true. Avenged Sevenfold has released content for a rhythm game. Sure, Beast and the Harlot was in Guitar Hero 2… but that was a crappy cover. These are Master Tracks.

The two songs that were released were “Critical Acclaim” and “Afterlife”. While these aren’t my dream song choices, they certainly suffice. “Critical Acclaim” is easy enough. I five starred the Guitar portion and four starred the drums and vocals. Then I played “Afterlife” and suddenly the difficulty was ramped up to 11. Like, literally.

I five starred the vocals, failed the drums about 75% through, and failed the guitar about the same time. Before the solo hit me like a brick wall (bricks made of death and pure evil), the guitar was fairly easy, but offered up a fun bit of challenge. And then THIS happened:

This stuff is harder than it looks. All I can say is… if I ever expect to pass this crap, I’m gonna actually going to have to use Practice Mode. The good news is that I love the song, so no worries. Anyone interested in these songs can buy them for 160 MS Points, or whatever that equates to in Play Station points, or whatever the hell it is that they use.