Very Similar Bands (aka "Clone" bands)

I don't mean bands where only the vocalist sounds similiar.

DARK ANGEL - DEVASTATION, early INVOCATOR
JUDAS PRIEST - MALICE
MERCYFUL FATE - early SACRED OATH, SLAUTER XSTROYES, A TORTURED SOUL
WATCHTOWER - early SIEGES EVEN
SLAYER - early SACRED REICH

Yo, Temple of Blood, check your private messages.

Not only vocally but musically as well:

The Huntingtons
Screeching Weasel
The Riverdales

sound like...

The Ramones

Rhino Bucket
Bullet
'77
...some of The Angels...

sounds like AC/DC

tohostudios wrote:

Rhino Bucket
Bullet
'77
...some of The Angels...

sounds like AC/DC

A lot of the first Cinderella album fits that bill, too.

Required Fields wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

Rhino Bucket
Bullet
'77
...some of The Angels...

sounds like AC/DC

A lot of the first Cinderella album fits that bill, too.

Yep. I think AC/DC is the most "cloned" band out there.

More to add to the AC/DC list:

Dirty Looks
Sideburn
Mainline Riders (2nd one)

...and I don't care because I love that style.

kix and x-sinner sound like ac-dc at times

I can see the album from Malice-license to kill to sound like Painkiller from JP

Venom-early Bathory and Sodom
Hellhammer-Warhammer
Iron Maiden-Arch era Fates Warning

Udo - Vanize

Up to a certain point Primal Fear was a total Judas Priest clone. Particularly of "Painkiller".

Communic - mid-90s Nevermore

(Doesn't mean I don't like Communic though)

Big Ball <> AC/DC
Bullet <> Accept
Savage Circus <> Blind Guardian

to me

Sacred Warrior sounds alot like Bloodgood

powermacho wrote:

I can see the album from Malice-license to kill to sound like Painkiller from JP

Painkiller came out 3 years after License To Kill...

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

powermacho wrote:

I can see the album from Malice-license to kill to sound like Painkiller from JP

Painkiller came out 3 years after License To Kill...

Dang it, I was just about to say the same thing.

I win...

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Barren Cross - Iron Maiden

What does the chronology have to do with anything? Band A can't sound like Band B if Band A's release came out first?

Lick The Blade sounds like Iron Maiden
Krokus sounds like AC/DC

Whitecross sounds like a RATT clone.
Well Toho, if cloning means band A copying band B`s sound, cronology makes a big difference. Not sure if that`s the intention of the original poster though...

I wouldn't call them a clone... but Ultimatum is very similar to Zetro era Exodus.

Randy Rose's SACRIFICIUM album = Danzig

Well considering no one said this yet and even though I do not agree, people always said Avenger of Blood were clones of Kreator.