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Shortly after confirming an October 20 release date for Guitar Hero Live, Activision revealed another 20 songs that will be available on the game disc. This batch of songs returns to the wider variety of music found in earlier tracklist updates with songs from Bob Dylan, Bruno Mars, Carrie Underwood, Green Day, Kongos, and many others. There’s also several Guitar Hero alums returning for an encore which were previously featured in the original Guitar Hero (White Zombie’s “Thunder Kiss ’65”), Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Rage Against the Machine’s “Bulls on Parade”), Guitar Hero: World Tour (Korn’s “Freak on a Leash”) and Guitar Hero 5 (Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life”).

Here’s all the new songs Activision included in their E3 2015 announcement:

• American Authors – “Best Day of My Life”
• The Avett Brothers – “Another is Waiting”
• Band of Skulls – “Asleep at the Wheel”
• Biffy Clyro – “Sounds Like Balloons”
• Bob Dylan – “Thunder on the Mountain”
• Bruno Mars – “The Lazy Song”
• Calvin Harris – “Feels So Close”
• Carrie Underwood – “Before He Cheats”
• Courtney Barnett – “Pedestrian at Best”
• Dum Dum Girls – “Rimbaud Eyes”
• Green Day – “American Idiot”
• Iggy Pop – “Lust for Life”
• Jake Bugg – “What Doesn’t Kill You”
• Jet – “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?”
• Kongos – “Come With Me Now”
• Korn – “Freak on a Leash”
• Rage Against the Machine – “Bulls on Parade”
• The Strokes – “Under Cover of Darkness”
• White Zombie – “Thunder Kiss ‘65”
• ZZ Top – “I Gotsta Get Paid”

This update pushes the total number of songs in Guitar Hero Live to 74 (previous tracklist updates can be found here, here, here, and here). Activision hasn’t said how many songs will ship on the Guitar Hero Live game disc, but they plan to continue announcing new songs as it gets closer to release.

Here it is, your first momentous look at Guitar Hero Live‘s GHTV mode. Are you ready? Here it comes…

Wait, it’s just a Guitar Hero note highway overlaid on top of a music video. The list of available music videos will be periodically updated and players can opt to play individual songs or a themed series of videos. That’s exactly how Activision said GHTV would work when the game was announced a few months ago.

OK, Guitar Hero Live’s E3 2015 trailer is a bit of a bust, but we did also learn that the game will be released on October 20 for the PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and “select mobile devices.” If you’re thinking of pre-ordering Guitar Hero Live, you might also be interested to know that Activision has partnered with Avenged Sevenfold to create exclusive bonus content for fans of the rhythm game franchise. Prospective pre-order purchasers of the game will receive access to a playable concert performance featuring the heavy metal band in Guitar Hero Live’s GHTV mode. More information is available at GuitarHero.com/bonus.

Guitar Hero Live is in development at FreeStyleGames, the same studio that was responsible for DJ Hero and DJ Hero 2.