Metallica Pack Pulled from Rock Band Music Store

The Metallica Pack 01, featuring the songs “Ride The Lightning”, “And Justice For All”, and “Blackened”, has been pulled from the Rock Band Music Store. It will also be yanked from first-party marketplaces in the immediate future.

“After that, they will no longer be available for purchase,” reads a statement published on the Rock Band Facebook page.

“When licensing songs for release for any platform, including DLC, agreements include term limits on how long the content may be sold on a given platform. This isn’t specific to Rock Band – it’s something that exists in pretty much all licensing agreements. Now, over five years since the release of the first batch of Rock Band DLC, we’re reaching the end of some of the earliest licenses we secured.”

The Metallica tracks were released on November 20, 2007.

Harmonix is working to minimise the impact of expiring licenses on the Rock Band legacy catalogue and is looking to secure extensions for “an overwhelming majority of content and, most importantly, making it a priority to give you advance notice if songs are expiring and have to come down.”

Harmonix stresses the removal of tracks should have no effect on users who have already purchased the DLC content.

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