EA Sports has unveiled the first trailer for its highly anticipated College Football 25, which features Guns N’ Roses’ anthemic “Welcome to the Jungle” for its soundtrack.
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It is the twenty-first game in the EA Sports College Football game series and the first since July 2013, when NCAA Football 14 was released.
The song, featured on Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 monumental debut Appetite for Destruction, has appeared in tons of media over the years.
Highlights include soundtracking moments in Selena (1997), The Interview (2014), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). Check out the trailer below.
The song was used in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the in-game radio station Radio X. The track is is also a playable song in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and Slash is a playable character in the game. Additionally, the sogn is the unofficial anthem for the Cincinnati Bengals, whose stadium is nicknamed The Jungle. Former Dodgers and Rangers closer Éric Gagné used the song as his entrance music during his career.
The band’s history can be traced back to the mid-1980s, when, on March 25, 1986, the band signed the record deal that helped catapult them to worldwide fame and fortune. The union between the band and Geffen Records came almost one year to the day after their first gig at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Soon, word was spreading way beyond California about the hottest new rock band of the 1980s.
Guns N’ Roses came to attention with the simple purpose of playing loud, raunchy rock’n’roll, a deliberate return to the roots of a genre that had been diluted by the “hair bands” and synthesizer rock of the recent past. They were aggressive, in-your-face and uncompromising, with a charismatic frontman in Axl Rose, a brilliant guitar figurehead in Slash, Izzy Stradlin on rhythm guitar and a rock solid rhythm section of Duff McKagan on bass and Steven Adler on drums.
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