Copycat Bands You Like

[nightsblood]

Avenger- good call on SAINT. They did indeed out-Judas the 'Priest for a few years there.

Re: GRANICUS, I lovelovelove 'Bad Talk'- that's a nasty, baddass song!- but the album overall never completely clicked with me.

[Ironhead]

Early PORTRAIT (demo, first 7" and the debut album) has often been called as pure MF copying for obvious reasons, and even though I hear a lot more in there, like some other personal favourites such as Hell and Sarcofagus, I understand that especially the vocal delivery instantly brings King Diamond to anyone's mind. But at the time no one else played anything like that and discovering them was a gift that just keeps on giving. Now there's bands like Attic, Dracula and Them and they all sounded ridiculous to me from the start (when Attic put out their demo I was very surprised they actually got a deal but oh well, anything gets signed nowadays)... Whenever anyone tries to copy King's vocal style he just ends up sounding like a shitty B-rate King to me. The difference with Philip of Portrait was that he took that copying on such an indecipherable and lunatic level that while it often only irritates people, I can't get over how great it is for the same reasons. Almost something like the vocals of Christian Death.

[bigfootkit]

Re: GRANICUS, I lovelovelove 'Bad Talk'- that's a nasty, baddass song!- but the album overall never completely clicked with me.

I really like their 1st record a lot, and the 2nd album, 'Thieves, Liars, And Traitors', has some moments too.
Avoid the 2016 'Granicus III - Better Days' CD from the reformed band though. It sounds awful unfortunately, as if the engineer & producer were deaf novices. There might well be some decent music on there but it's such a sonic mess that we'll never know.

[nightsblood]

Huh, didn't know Granicus made a second album. Cool, I learned something!

[fengisriprider]

I love this sort of Misfits clone my girlfriend turned me onto from Ohio!!

[youtube]vI6-Bni0ehE[/youtube]

[wicked keeper]

Love that album yet can't stand The Misfits....go figure...

[Speedeceiver]

Total CF/Hellhammer clone. Definitely some riffs lifted directly from Morbid Tales.
Sounds better than most Celtic Frost release IMO haha.

https://malleusheavymetal.bandcamp.com/releases

[Herkus Monte]

Thunderchild - an obscure Queensryche clone from the 90s and a great one!

[youtube]HPMwPxeycAk[/youtube]

[Khnud]

Speaking of Queensrÿche, this is pretty close to Geoff Tate, don't you think?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xv0bw3qlhe6q ... b.mp3?dl=0

One of the rarest and most obscure US metal 45s out there - SACRED REIGN.

[Prowler]

nope, this guy sounds closer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

I hope we won't start to post Queensryche copycats of the US scene now? There are countless of them ...

[Khnud]

nope, this guy sounds closer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Far too strained for being a Tate clone, in my opinion.

[tbieri]

Thunderchild - an obscure Queensryche clone from the 90s and a great one!

[youtube]HPMwPxeycAk[/youtube]

Someone should make a proper release of this!

[tbieri]

[youtube]snmnJIWYqDo[/youtube]

Another fantastic Tate clone.