Smokey by Emmure recently came up on my Spotify and I KNEW it sounded familiar!
(CHOKE - Cradles Puppet)
The first time I heard KIRITO’s 瓦礫の花, it suddenly reminded me of ELLEGARDEN’s 風の日.
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0:34-0:44 is mad similar to:
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I don’t know if Ryuusei is based on another song, but if it isn’t so, it probably inspired many.
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I have a dual example, both of these songs sound similar to Poem by Taproot, example below:
MUCC- Kanashimi no Hate
SPYAIR - It
First five seconds of RISING by RENGEKI (2024) is basically identical to Theory of Evolution by Jupiter (2018)
It seems that many videos from this thread started disappearing from YT. I would recommend we include the names of the tracks in addition to the embeds. I will edit my post.
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i was gonna bring this up too, thank you!
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Accidentally came upon this song and the main melody and chorus sounded so familiar…
BAKUFU-SLUMP - RUNNER (1988)
…then it hit me. 
Gazette - Wakaremichi (2002)
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I never thought I’d be able to contribute to this thread this fast, but here’s one random comparison:
So Sananda Maitreya (formerly Terence Trent D’Arby) has this song…
which sounds a bit like this part of Kein’s Toy Boy:
(thanks to searching this up, Sanada’s other song, Sign Your Name is currently stuck in my head)
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nothing outlandish or even outwardly inspired-by, just something that has probably been on the tip of my tongue for the better part of a decade, HA!
starting ~4 seconds in, there’s this ‘unn’ sound that you hear throughout …
erase - hide (1996)
which reminds me of this, ~20 seconds in …
connection - elastica (1994)
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I don’t even need to explain myself.
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Was going through some old pop-punk and noticed these two, the structure of the intro, the riffs and the “hey!” both being pretty similar
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The guitar riff at 1:14 in the GazettE’s LUCY is almost identical to the riff at 0:33 in Dir en grey’s 秒「」深 (Byou Shin, six Ugly version). It’s just downtuned a bit.
The section is so blatant and almost separate from the rest of the song that I have to assume it’s an homage.
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I came across one. The entire song (Tokyo Shinjuu, the GazettE) is similar to the chorus of Pink Iro no Seishun, until it reaches its own chorus
2004
2003
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Straight ripoff of Meshuggah. They don’t even try to hide it.
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FIXER completely ripping off GazettE’s To Dazzling Darkness
To Dazzling Darkness (2013)
Kagerou no Yume (2017)
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Call this one a reach, but I’m pretty sure DISREIGN’s Vexed (wow Yohio, very original band) ripped from UGLY.
MS Text-to-speech “Are you fucking kidding me” at 1:20 perfectly incapsulates my feelings.
Moreover, I do hear some throwbacks to Gazette’s VORTEX and HEADACHE MAN as well.
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I lost it at that part
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