Did Arch Enemy rip off Ozzy/Jake E. Lee?

[dave_mc]

that is pretty close :lol:

[littleredguitars2]

heres a good one that always made me a little bummed.  Sum 41 pretty much ripped off Metallica's Battery with their song the Bitter End. the whole song structure minus the acoustic intro in metallicas. the vocal melodies, the guitar riffs. everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgKK9a1GPg8

[fps_dean]

If you didn't post this, I might never have realized how similar they are, but yes there's definitely similarities.  That said, a lot of the chords are a fairly common progression as well.

[fps_dean]

heres a good one that always made me a little bummed.  Sum 41 pretty much ripped off Metallica's Battery with their song the Bitter End. the whole song structure minus the acoustic intro in metallicas. the vocal melodies, the guitar riffs. everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgKK9a1GPg8

I'd say that's pretty blatant too

[GuitarIv]

I still don't think it's just a coincidence  :lol:

@littleredguitars2: that sounds indeed like a rip off (or tribute) but then again they covered Master of Puppets when Metallica were introduced into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, so it was obvious to me that they were a huge influence for them...

[littleredguitars2]

yeah they did a metallica medley for that rock icon of metallica that was pretty cool. dave from sum 41 was a great player. but you guys are right. hard to say if its a tribute or a rip off.

[Dave Sloven]

Kind of surprised that Lars hasn't gone after them for some royalties.

Those art collections don't pay for themselves, dude

Same with Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and Arch Enemy.  I mean, if they were prepared to edit the drums and bass out of the first two albums to avoid paying royalties you'd think they'd be all over this

[Clint567]

Actually two rip-offs in this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-as4LausEok

2:31

[GuitarIv]

Woah, didn't even notice this and I'm a huge Death fan...  :o