Same Riff??? (Riff-Off)

DMR · Post by **DMR** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:10 pm

The riff before the chorus in Attack's Indian Lady is from Aces High.

Post by **DaN** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:12 am

The lead riff of BRIDE's "Show No Mercy" is hauntingly similar to BROCAS HELM's "Time Of The Dark", though I pray & hope it's only a coincident

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:52 am

Now that you mentioned BRIDE, if i remember correctly the riff of "The first will be last" on the debut is quite similar to DEF LEPPARD's "Billy's got a gun".

Same thing with SORTILEGE's "Gladiateur".

Witchkiller · Post by **Witchkiller** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:05 pm

DMR wrote:The riff before the chorus in Attack's Indian Lady is from Aces High.

So true,you're right.Almost cloned i may say so

a)Raven - Faster Than The Speed Of Light
Helloween - Starlight

Check out the vocal lines and the backing riffs on both songs.Almost identical

b)Accept - Neon Nights
Velvet Viper - Can't remember the song but if you check out V.V.'s debut you'll find a song that has an 100% inentical verse to Neon Nights

c)Bathory - The sword
Manowar - Blood Of My Enemies

I'm pretty damn sure that Quorthon took a very close look(or listening if you prefer)to Manowar's titanic classic..........Similarities can be found on both structure,riff and vocal lines

d)Anvil - Show me your tits
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

Ok,no words needed.Not a rip off as far as riffing is concerned(although there are similarities)but the whole stracture is photocopied!Nevertheless "Show Me Your Tits"is an Anvil crush Metal classic and something their female fans should do in everyconcert of the band!

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:06 pm

CAST IRON's EP is a riff by riff copy paste from the first RUNNING WILD albums. No point in mentioning which song steals which, anyone who has heard carefully the first RW albums will notice them almost instantly.

Or should that be posted in the new Tribute thread instead?

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:01 pm

That is true, it's funny they even mention any other influences

But still cool to have a band like that around I think.

Witchkiller · Post by **Witchkiller** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:43 pm

ION BRITTON wrote:CAST IRON's EP is a riff by riff copy paste from the first RUNNING WILD albums. No point in mentioning which song steals which, anyone who has heard carefully the first RW albums will notice them almost instantly.

Or should that be posted in the new Tribute thread instead?

Haha,yeah you're right but then again as Daniel said it's cool to have suck bands around nowadays.

I my self haven't figured out why they mention other bands as influences,haha...

Leather and Metal is a killer.Ok,it may be a "Chains And Leather" rip off but then again "Chains And Leather" is a "Take On The World" rip off.......

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:48 pm

Witchkiller wrote:but then again "Chains And Leather" is a "Take On The World" rip off.......

Not what'd you call a shameless rip-off though. Heavily influnced, but also 100x more powerful and darker. "Take on the world" doesn't sound like if it was recorded in a cave.

Witchkiller · Post by **Witchkiller** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:19 pm

ION BRITTON wrote:
Witchkiller wrote:but then again "Chains And Leather" is a "Take On The World" rip off.......
Not what'd you call a shameless rip-off though. Heavily influnced, but also 100x more powerful and darker. "Take on the world" doesn't sound like if it was recorded in a cave.

Ok,then let's just say that Rock'n'Rolf "modified" the song

Ernest Thesiger · Post by **Ernest Thesiger** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:11 am

Ascending bit on Malmsteen's "I'll See the Light Tonight" ->
Ascending bit on Cradle of Filth demo song "As My Stomach Churns".

Post by **DaN** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:14 pm

Me + Vinny Black just noticed this scoop:

The lead riff of THE BEAST's "The Beast" (Power Metal EP) is exactly the same as JAGUAR's "Axe Crazy".

GJ · Post by GJ » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:19 pm

Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned (where it takes a rest and speeds up) and Omega (the hungarian seventies one) - Stormy Fire (main theme)

Probably not "riffs" in a proper sense but still it's the same chord progression and a sharing of sound and ideas of arrangement. The importance of respective underlying rhythm patterns - Iron Maiden galloping (what else!) while Omega are sort of bouncing (in the typical ol' western-civilisation-goes-exotic way). I would really like to hear Iron Maiden cover the Omega song and arrange it into Children of the Damned.

Post by **DaN** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:38 am

I think I've seen the Hungarian OMEGA referenced as one of Steve Harris' old faves, so you might very well be onto something there. Can't offer a 2nd opinion though since I don't own any Omega albums.

Blood RED · Post by **Blood RED** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:01 pm

Deep Purple's Child in time , the first part sung by Gillan is the same with It's a beautiful day's "Bombay calling" violin intro... Anybody knowing the story of it? Classical music etc. BC is older than CIT for sure...

And Cryer's day to day first riff reminds me of bob seger's turn the page...

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:16 pm

Heh yeah had forgot to mention that one, which reminded me of another DP rip-off; the riff in 'Black Night' is lifted from the Blues Magoos' 'We Ain't Got Nothing Yet'.