The "Influence or Coincidence, Inspiration or Plagiarism" Thread

Check the riff that appears at 15:25 in the Morpheus Descends YouTube clip & compare it with the riff that arrives at 1:55 in Neuropath's "Rectal Pulpation:

"Rectal Pulpation" was the first song I ever wrote for Neuropath back in 1993 & the Morpheus Descends track was released in 1994. We didn't release a studio recording of our track until the start of 1995 though so it must be pure coincidence, despite the riffs being almost exactly the same.

Why does the "again and again and again" part of this Architects song sounds so much like part of the chorus of this Chainsmokers song?! Surely that has to be a coincidence, right? RIGHT???

The addition of several of my judgement submissions into the Hall has ended up creating a wild coincidence involving 3 different cover arts:

As you can see, the Sonic Violence cover art consists of a drawing of an Iron Giant-like silver robot dude, and the Cryptopsy cover art consists of a futuristic post-apocalyptic dystopian wasteland. The Conflиct cover art looks like it has combined those other two artworks and made it better, by making the silver robot dude more realistic and adding him to a more detailed dystopian wasteland. Now that I think about it, I can kind of say the same about the music itself! In that Conflиct album, they take the electro-industrial of Sonic Violence and some of the death metal of Cryptopsy, then add in some melodic groove for a much better stylistic mix. At least that's what I'm hearing...

These two metalcore album covers both have the same "bobcut hand-bra girl" image! Coincidence? Rip-off?!? I have no idea, but I should really check out that Ten After Two album sometime.

You know that Coldrain song I've just shared in the Gateway Track of the Day thread?

I shared it with one of my outside-world friends, the one who got me into Coldrain and other Japanese alt-metalcore bands via Gundam Extreme. He told me that it has a similar tune and melody as another J-rock song that he likes that was shared by another outside-world friend. And he is right! That song and this one are mashup-worthy:

Oh these cover art coincidences just never end! The cover arts for that The Devil Wears Prada demo and that The Arbitrary Method EP both have a close-up of a woman's face behind an abstract pattern. Though the latter is definitely more futuristic, just like the EP itself.