1) This band was formed in 1981, and is still going today.
2) Two of their tracks have now been featured in the Guitar Hero series.
Pantera?
Metallica
Double guess if I may, since both of these iirc fit the current clues........
Anthrax.
if not...
Slayer.
1981. Good year that one.
Led Zeppelin?
Xyz
??
Inb4 sonic youth
Was fairly famous in the Pre WW2 era, accidentally died in the English Channel.
Glenn Miller.
Edit: Or, if being picky, The Miller Band.
Rammstein