21st century DLC

This week in Rock Band, Green Day make an appearance with 3 tracks from their new album 21st Century Breakdown. They are joined by an assortment of hardcore artists from Marilyn Manson to Slayer, in a collection of songs entitled Mayhem Pack. The Green Day pack will set you back 440 MSP/$5.50 and the Mayhem Pack 1080 MSP/$13.50, or 160 MSP/$2 for each song individually.
Here's what's on offer:

Green Day Pack
21 Guns
East Jesus Nowhere
Know Your Enemy

Mayhem Pack
Behemoth - Conquer All
Black Dahlia Murder - What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face
God Forbid - Empire of the Gun
Job for a Cowboy - Embedded
Marilyn Manson - Disposable Teens
Slayer - Black Magic
Whitechapel - This is Exile
Note: Click on any song for expert drum videos.

Regular readers of this blog should realize that none of this is my kind of music so I should be excused for skipping this week's songs. It looks as though I'm finally breaking my addiction to the game, as I no longer feel the need to buy DLC just to have something new to play. Instead, I've become a lot more picky and only bother listening to the ones I think I'm going to like. Besides, if I add any more songs to my ever-growing library, I'm likely to spend even less time in the game and even more time in the menu screens, choosing which track to play next!

The only other piece of news worth mentioning concerns this week's Rock Band Unplugged DLC. I know I said I wasn't going to cover these, as I have no intention of buying any, but when a song is released for free I'll pay a bit more notice. The song in question is Jonathan Coulton's excellent Still Alive, which fans may remember as the closing track from Portal. Even though it's not quite as funny when taken out of context, it's still woth downloading because, hey, it's free. This announcement was certainly a triumph so I'm making a note here - huge success!