Riff Thieves

[XSASweet]

Atreyu ripped off In Flames - The Hive riff almost verbatim, as in I could barely tell the difference.

 

[Black_Sheep]

This topic is quite useless imo. If you write something, there's a high possibility that it sounds a bit like something someone already did.


However..

Sonic Syndicate steals from In Flames. gay-ass Trivium steals from everyone. So does Lamb of God. These bands suck. Big time.

 

[General Zaroff]

At The Gates - Under A Serpent Sun (3:12-3:36)

I could have sworn I heard Cradle Of Filth borrow that breakdown. (or whatever it is)

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

As far as I can remember there's a riff in "Fade to Black" which resembles one of the riffs from Saxon's tune "The Eagle has Landed", or perhaps a different one.

Oh and Heidenreich rip off both "Disposable Heroes" AND "To live is to Die" in one song, or at least they sound similar.

 

[arg]

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

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

 

[Xorv]

Dragonforce's sonic firestorm ripped off the riff from Dragonforce's valley of the dammed. I was like wtf when I heard this I can't believe dragonforce would rip off from dragonforce that Is like wayyyy out of line.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

steve vai's tender surrender lick is a rip off of some jimi hendrix improv

 

[SweptbackFlame]

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

 

[AwesomeGuy]

motley crue used almost the same riff for looks that kill and knock 'em dead kid

 

[Alongside Death]

Tidfall ripped a lot of riffs although they released only 3 albums. Besides I think it isn't possible to not steal couple of riffs when there are nearly 100 000 bands.

 

[Hatebreeder]

Dragonforce's sonic firestorm ripped off the riff from Dragonforce's valley of the dammed. I was like wtf when I heard this I can't believe dragonforce would rip off from dragonforce that Is like wayyyy out of line.

Also, "Cry for Eternity" rips off "Disciples of Babylon".

 

[Zephyrus]

Tidfall are meh.

 

[Alongside Death]

Utter meh... worst industrial metal ever.

 

[Xorv]

Maybe noone is ripping off anyone and all these riffs are just colliding with people running out of idea for new riffs.

cept trivium who are famous for that shit.

 

[Valdincan]

Tygers of Pan Tang - Wild Catz > Venom - Welcome to Hell > Iron Maiden - 2 minutes to midnight.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

I think they were given permission to use that riff.

i would say its clearly based on that... but unlike say the example with Unas and Well of Souls its not a note for note copy.

 

[Allfader]

Camel - Never let go intro ripped by Opeth - benighted intro

Vintersorg - Svältvinter intro r.b Opeth - Porcelain Heart acoustic break near 5 min.

Trivium steals to survive. I really hate them, but the past week I heard by accident a song where the main riff was a rip off from Death's Symbolic (pre-chorus riff).

I don't have a big problem when a band use something to complement their own creation, but when they steal a riff and make it their main riff on one of 'their' songs, that's shameful.