I was just thinking about this one today.

Dio - Stand Up and Shout

Steelheart - Rock 'n Roll (I Just Wanna)


I'm not saying they're the same or anything, but I definitely hear a similar vibe there in those main riffs.

This thread could be named "Gamma Ray stealing stuff as usual (and also other bands similiarities)


I'm sure Running Wild knew what they were doing when they recorded these drum intro:

Judas Priest - Rapid Fire

Running Wild - Straight To Hell

Did Slayer actually steal the drum intro from Heavy Load?

Heavy Load - Might For Right '82


Slayer - Epidemic '86

Funny, I always heard more similarities between Paranoid and Communication Breakdown personally.

I'm pretty sure he's talking about Paranoid's intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlC92FufXp8

...and this part of Dazed and Confused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1HaKfkMBmk#t=1m12s

I agree with both of you guys. I for one cannot understand how anyone can consider Paranoid a metal song but not Communication Breakdown.

Soulfly's "Tribe" = Sepultura's "Breed Apart"

Anthrax's "This is Not an Exit" = Pantera's "A New Level"

Korn's "Blind" = Primus's "Too Many Puppies"

Korn's "Ball Tongue" = Morbid Angel's "Angel of Disease"

Foreplay by Boston and Difficult To Cure by Rainbow.

Barshasketh's Palingenesis (esp. the acoustic guitar section beginning at around 7:20) reminds me quite a bit of Crimson Glory's Lost Reflection.

I don't think this one has been posted yet, but it's a pretty obvious one.

Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned


Metallica - The Unforgiven II


Jimi Hendrix - 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) [Electric Ladyland]

That awesome riff from Lvcifyre's Sun Eater (you know the one) kinda sounds like the main riff of Watain's Black Salvation sped up.

Sun Eater: https://youtu.be/Hwlir9wUW_o?t=1m56s
Black Salvation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_KByYPn5ZI

Falling in Reverse - Just Like You


Kingdom Come - Ain't Crying For the Moon




I noticed this some time ago. But what really irks me is that rip off of the Stones' tongue logo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXxlXg_V-k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M

The first song was released in 1965.

I thought this was common knowledge.That's how Deep Purple wrote many songs in the 60s and 70s; they took a part from a musical piece and created a song around it. Whether it is Bombay Calling, Summertime, Foxy Lady, Fascinating Rhythm... It's the songs and sounds they created which made them great. During Stormbringer they even bought a song from a guy whom they met during the recording sessions of the album, then transformed it. They sometimes used other people's ideas and admitted it.

But there is one potential plagiarism case : the song "Rock Star" by a band named Warpig was obviously a huge inspiration for "Fireball". Unlike the aforementioned cases, it wasn't a standard or a song from another genre or era, it was a song created by peers, and a small band at that.

A Voidhanger riff that sounds very similar to a famous Darkthrone riff:
Voidhanger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vb2vp ... e=youtu.be
Darkthrone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAajs4oMbpg

An Acrimonious riff that sounds very similar to a Watain riff:
Acrimonious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWvIyUd-CNk
Watain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnZxxc04s8g

That Acrimonious riff sounds like a stripped down version of the main riff in Malfeitor to me. But still sounds like Watain, nevertheless!

how about this part of the first track off that album and carcass' best song?

Holy cow. I just realized how similar the main riff of "Fight Or Fall" by Riot is to "Reptile" by Helloween. It's basically a sped up version with more tremolo picking.

Black Sabbath "Neon Knights" and Triumph "Too Much Thinking" (both songs are almost identical)

Holocaust "Death Or Glory" and Ostrogoth "Paris By Night" (identical main riffs)

Manilla Road "Dreams Of Eschaton" and Angel Witch "Angel Of Death" (identical main riffs)

Whoaa!! I thought I knew my Triumph, but I hadn't heard this song again since I discovered Sabbath.

A similarity of sorts that I noticed: the solo from Therion's Emerald Crown (Deggial, 2000) really sounds as if it were played by Uli Jon Roth himself. I know Roth was a huge inspiration for Therion, and there have been many Roth/Scorpions ideas lifted for other Therion songs (mentioned in this thread), but this solo doesn't sound like any particular Roth solo. It just sounds very Rothian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JJ2YsAe7I#t=4m38s

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/De ... ude/549772
The cover to the new Delain EP really looks like something from My Little Pony (don't feel like linking that)

I know these arent exactly metal,but whatever....

Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRD0hLm9-ro

Rob Zombie new single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSFl3rm8Kk

Robs song isnt exactly like "Wynonas Big Brown Beaver" but like a general parody of Primus all around.

Soilwork - Song of the Damned


Mercenary - Lost Reality

I was jamming through some Satanic Warmaster and I suddenly noticed similarities between them and Mgla.

Listen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1h-nCEQ5Is

06:33

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo0XL7TCUk

02:36

A small change in Mgla's case, but anyway, pretty similar.

Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll4Ij58497Q

Celtic Frost - Dance Sleazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Ofog9q9Dk

The main melodies of Amon Amarth's Where Silent Gods Stand Guard and Lord Belial's Armageddon Revelation are practically identical. The riffs are different, but the chord progressions are the same.

https://youtu.be/q5WrsQT10DE?t=4m44s

This part of Dracula by Running Wild really reminds me of the Cheetah Men song. Who knew Rolf was such a big Action 52 fan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZlYGN5W2Yg

On the other hand, when I first heard this part of Silverwing by Arch Enemy...

https://youtu.be/XYFWLxUHYHI?t=1m10s

i remembered this song from the game Sonic Heroes. It doesn't quite sound as similar as I remembered, but I can still hear some common elements. Though, to be fair, Sonic Heroes actually came out after the Arch Enemy album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeoLK6M9sts

Here's what Doom took inspiration from.

Kreator- People of the Lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYzSN11Jab4

and Carcass- Heartwork
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpbpOgUybBM

Dreamtale- Fallen Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt2D11l5Ow

and Jason Mraz- I'm Yours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHTsc9PU2A

0:28 uhh strike of the beast???

The first riff on Diavolos' "Piss in Holy Water" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNJ7LiniqI

...is almost the same as Nekromantheon's first riff on "Rise, Vulcan Spectre": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqyx0DpL6U

Solstice- Cromlech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zf1NPiT9qs

May the Silence Fail- Related Souls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B73AKNQ6hjI

Sodom-The Conqueror
https://youtu.be/1XuwtX-YAJE

Sarcofago -Satanas
https://youtu.be/MM7Im0LaoWg

This post is a hybrid between a "similarities you noticed"-post and a "song ID thread"-post, because I am more than 100% sure I've heard these two exact main riffs before in something more well-known, I think from a Norwegian band but not entirely certain of that. Anyone got a clue what I could be thinking of?

That sounds vaguely like Funeral Fog (at least that's the first song that came to mind), but that's too obvious and probably not what you were thinking of.

Could be anything; that's literally one of the most generic riffs ever concieved. Pretty much everyone used that progression sooner or later somewhere.

I think House of Lords liked that short part in Savatage's "Hounds" ("Hunt you down!") and decided to make a song out of it.

Savatage - Hounds (from 4:11 to 4:43)
https://youtu.be/wmbf18FH-bg?t=4m11s

House of Lords - Shoot
https://youtu.be/PwGzloVky4Q?t=18s

Megadeth - Poison was the Cure
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pok6dO4J6dg&t=162

Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sg6xaFZStEI&t=128

Just recently picked up Love It To Death by Alice Cooper, and on the song "Ballad of Dwight Fry" I noticed they use a chord swell type thing that's similar to the mid-section of Rush's classic "By-Tor and the Snow Dog." Obviously the Cooper song came first so maybe Rush were influenced by them. But then also all that reminded me of the beginning of "Damage, Inc." by Metallica

Alice Cooper - Ballad of Dwight Fry

https://youtu.be/FfqrZvKI_1g?t=244

Rush - By Tor and the Snow Dog

https://youtu.be/2UU62UcP_BA?t=343

Metallica - Damage, Inc.

https://youtu.be/NbLMrce7OJI?t=13

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Do I need to mention what song is this one similar too?