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METAL: HELLSINGER
It’s Doom meets Guitar Hero, and features Serj Tankian, Matt Heafy, Randy Blythe, Alissa White-Gluz and more. Metal: Hellsinger is the only game you’ll need to play in 2022
WORDS: RICH HOBSON
IF YOU’RE A metalhead and a gamer, we’ll wager you’ve turned down a game’s in-built soundtrack and stuck your own music on good and loud to slay your way through hordes of demons/zombies/exploding polygons. So, good news: upcoming videogame Metal: Hellsinger is all about providing you with that perfect soundtrack for scything through the forces of Hell.
“I was playing the 2016 Doom and listening to Meshuggah’s Bleed,” explains David Goldfarb, founder of videogame studio The Outsiders and the man who came up with Metal: Hellsinger’s concept, ultimately serving as the project’s Creative Director. “A lot of the time, I found I was trying to line up my shooting with the beat of the song.”