To add onto this… there were only six artists on it.

Soundgarden, Paw, Hammerbox, Therapy?, Monster Magnet, and Swervedriver

I can’t believe they’re selling it like a relicensed soundtrack was actually a big deal. EA just didn’t want to do it. So they waited thirty years and are now complaining that it was hard.

It’s not like the more famous licensing struggles with older artists (The Wonder Years was famously hard to reproduce) over the years. They still had some trouble because apparently they had to track down everyone due to their own negligence.

Successfully pulling this off would require connecting with the music label and every band member who controlled a 'side' of the 14 tracks. By the summer of 2026, we had agreements in place with 6 of the 7 bands (including the most prominent band on the list), but after months of searching we still could not find one of the members for a specific band," Vessella explains.

Oh fucking boo hoo.

I’m not sure where they’re getting “7 bands” though because they list 6 themselves (quoted from the article below). Discogs also only lists six.

Soundgarden, Paw, Hammerbox, Monster Magnet, Therapy?, and Swervedriver