CFB 26 Will Function An Sudden Tie-In With One Of The Greatest Bands Ever Players Enviornment

EA Sports activities has introduced a partnership with the legendary band Metallica. The “For Whom The Band Tolls Competitors,” because it’s known as, will see EA Sports activities and Metallica come collectively to offer one collegiate marching band the prospect to report the CFB theme music and a Metallica music for a future CFB title.

The existence of this competitors is just about all we all know up to now. The announcement said that the profitable marching band will get to report a Metallica music for a future model of CFB, and on condition that that is solely simply being introduced in late April, it could appear the music would not be prepared till the inevitable CFB 27 in 2026.

For CFB 25, EA’s Torsten Staley recorded each staff’s combat music in Nashville with a gaggle of musicians made up of scholars and alumni from faculties like Oklahoma, North Texas, Vanderbilt, USC, Auburn, and Tennessee. The CFB theme music was additionally recorded in Nashville with a home band–check out a recording beneath.

For what it is value, CFB 26 hasn’t even been formally introduced but, although EA has mentioned followers can count on one other entry this yr. EA is paying student-athletes a minimum of $1,500 to look within the recreation this yr, which is greater than double final yr’s fee. We additionally know CFB 26 can have a Lowe’s tie-in.

CFB 26 is predicted to launch in July. EA Sports activities govt Daryl Holt advised The Athletic that the staff knew it was by no means going to have the ability to get all the things it needed to in 2024’s recreation. “So there’s lots of meat left on the bone,” he mentioned.

Holt declined to get into specifics concerning new options for CFB 26, however teased, “We have lots of issues nonetheless to come back.”

He added: “We launch a recreation, we perceive what’s vital to gamers and what they play and what they want modified, improved or added. This can be a recreation for followers constructed by school followers ourselves, and we wish it to be that kind of relationship to know what’s vital to them.”

CFB 25 was 2024’s No. 2 best-selling recreation total within the US, trailing solely Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6.