Riff Thieves

[Zephyrus]

Blut Aus Nord ripped off Jimi Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Love or Confusion" - 1:25 to 1:55 sounds very similar to the latter half of "Our Blessed Frozen Cells" from The Work Which Transforms God.


And yes, this thread is for finding such similarities.

 

[The Ozzman]

Trivium ripped off the opening riff to Metallica's Through the Never. I forget which song it is, but it's on their new album

Heaven Shall Burn BLATANTLY ripped off the riff to Carcass' This Mortal Coil on their newest one

 

[King Richard]

Who gives a fuck? No offense Zeph, I like you and all, but this is retarded thread.

 

[Gold]

at the gates rips off alot of oldschool black dahlia murder riffs

 

[Einherjar86]

Candlemass rips off Sabbath all the fucking time. Which is probably why they kick ass.

 

[panzerfaust666]

I did this before, and It got closed.

 

[General Zaroff]

at the gates rips off alot of oldschool black dahlia murder riffs

Uh what?

 

[Gold]

Uh what?

lol dont worry it was sarcasm, 300 core bands ripped off atg


but norma jean honestly ripped off system of a down and i am furious

 

[General Zaroff]

lol dont worry it was sarcasm, 300 core bands ripped off atg


but norma jean honestly ripped off system of a down and i am furious

I thought you were serious for a sec

Bands rip each other off all the time.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

I hear the same riffs all the time in music, there are only 12 notes and only so many patterns. The more music you hear the more you'll hear similarities with riffs, and some artists do rip others off on purpose and sometimes obviously coincidentaly.

 

[omnipotence]

Keyboard "riff" plagiarism (or melody, rather, whatever):

The ass-clowns of Norway, Dimmu Borgir



An ass-clown rapper from Germany, Bushido

 

[genocide roach]

manowar ripped off themselves.

the only band ive ever heard reuse a riff on multiple albums
~gR~

 

[Alteredmindeath]

AC DC have made the same album a few times.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I wouldn't say one was ripped off the other but Curse of the Pharaohs and Welcome To Hell's intro riffs sound pretty similar.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

manowar ripped off themselves.

the only band ive ever heard reuse a riff on multiple albums
~gR~

Iron Maiden has used the same riffs on multiple albums.

 

[The Ozzman]

manowar ripped off themselves.

the only band ive ever heard reuse a riff on multiple albums
~gR~

Megadeth

 

[Einherjar86]

Iron Maiden has used the same riffs on multiple albums.

As does Dragonforce.

Listen specifically to the opening riffs to "Fury of the Storm" and "Prepare For War." They're nearly identical.

 

[rms]

One song on 1 album

and i think prepare for war is a bonus track but i foget

 

[Qoppa]

manowar ripped off themselves.

the only band ive ever heard reuse a riff on multiple albums
~gR~

DragonForce uses the same riff in every song.

 

[False Joe]

DragonForce uses the same riff in every song.

nah dey r al difrunt.

u play dat fast and den u can cumplain.

Fucking dragonforce fans.

I hate them... so much...