Megadeth’s “Rust In Peace” Hitting Rock Band This Week

I got shivers all over my body reading this announcement. My plastic instrument pile has been collecting a bit of dust since The Beatles: Rock Band left my 360′s drive and I keep meaning to go back to it, but I always make some manner of lame excuse. Looks like my time for excuses may have run out.

Harmonix announced that this week’s big addition to the Rock Band store will be the full album of Megadeth’s 1990 masterwork, “Rust In Peace“. I think I may need to go change my underwear now.

The album will be hitting Xbox 360 and Wii on Tuesday, Feb. 9th, and PlayStation 3 on Thursday, Feb. 11th. Individual tracks will go for $1.99/160 MS points/200 Wii points and the whole thrashing 9-track beast can be had for $14.99/1200 MS points (sorry Wii owners – no full album price for you still).

• “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due”
• “Hangar 18″
• “Take No Prisoners”
• “Five Magics”
• “Poison Was the Cure”
• “Lucretia”
• “Tornado of Souls”
• “Dawn Patrol”
• “Rust in Peace… Polaris”

This album saw so much play-time from me that my CD literally wore out – there’s seriously not a bad track in the lot. And now I can finally indulge in my all-time favorite Megadeth track, “Tornado of Souls” over and over again until I shred the buttons off my poor plastic guitar and send my cats panicking for cover.

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