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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 provide one collegiate marching band the prospect to file the CFB theme track and a Metallica track 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 file a Metallica track for a future model of CFB, and on condition that that is solely simply being introduced in late April, it could appear the track would not be prepared till the inevitable CFB 27 in 2026.
CFB + Metallica = The Final Marching Band Competitors!
@EASPORTSCollege and @Metallica are becoming a member of forces to provide one faculty marching band a chance to take the sector and get within the recreation: The Division 1 winner of the For Whom the Band Tolls! competitors is not going to solely… pic.twitter.com/WPzVwawFmb— EASPORTSCollege (@EASPORTSCollege) April 21, 2025
For CFB 25, EA’s Torsten Staley recorded every team’s fight song in Nashville with a bunch of musicians made up of scholars and alumni from faculties like Oklahoma, North Texas, Vanderbilt, USC, Auburn, and Tennessee. The CFB theme track was additionally recorded in Nashville with a home band–check out a recording beneath.
For what it is price, CFB 26 hasn’t even been formally introduced but, although EA has stated followers can anticipate one other entry this 12 months. EA is paying student-athletes not less than $1,500 to seem within the recreation this 12 months, which is greater than double final 12 months’s charge. We additionally know CFB 26 could have a Lowe’s tie-in.
CFB 26 is anticipated to launch in July. EA Sports activities govt Daryl Holt advised The Athletic that the group knew it was by no means going to have the ability to get every part it needed to in 2024’s recreation. “So there’s numerous meat left on the bone,” he stated.
Holt declined to get into specifics relating to new options for CFB 26, however teased, “We have got numerous issues nonetheless to return.”
He added: “We launch a recreation, we perceive what’s necessary to gamers and what they play and what they want modified, improved or added. It is a recreation for followers constructed by faculty followers ourselves, and we would like it to be that sort of relationship to grasp what’s necessary to them.”
CFB 25 was 2024’s No. 2 best-selling recreation total within the US, trailing solely Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6.