Which Megadeth song serves as the culmination of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock?

Megadeth’s “Sudden Death” serves as the culmination of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. It plays during the final battle against the Beast after the player recruits the game’s eight warrior characters.

Dave Mustaine wrote the song specifically for the game’s conclusion. Its demanding guitar parts, polyrhythms, and difficult passages were intended to make the finale a serious challenge for experienced players rather than a routine closing track.

“Sudden Death” was initially created for Warriors of Rock and was later included on Megadeth’s 2011 album TH1RT3EN. It is therefore both a video-game finale and a regular Megadeth studio recording, a detail that can cause confusion when identifying its original context.

The other listed songs are major Megadeth titles, but none is the game’s concluding Quest Mode battle. “Symphony of Destruction,” “Holy Wars,” and “Hangar 18” are established catalog songs rather than the specially commissioned finale.