Top 10 Things Avenged Sevenfold Borrowed/Ripped Off for Their Hail to the King Album

Rob Flynn of Machine Head made comment jokingly congratulating A7X for making Hail to the King for being an album filled with covers of Metallica, Megadeth and Guns N' Roses songs repacked and made loads of money, But it turns out he was right and they ripped off more than just songs from those 3 bands.
The Top Ten
1 Sad but True - Metallica

I noticed most the things on this list, too. I will never understand why people love the most unoriginal bands in terms of songwriting: Led Zeppelin, A7X, Ghost...

Song: This Means War

Obvious ripoff of this classic Metallica song and plus is it any coiendence that Hail to the King has a Black album cover?

Makes sense, the whole list. This was supposed to be their more classic metal album.

This Means War is far better.

2 Danzig - Danzig

The album cover for Hail to the King is way too simular to this album cover they both have the mascot on the left side and both are black.

What makes it worse is the Vinyl cover is more orignal and is much better than the actual cover used.

Same with Best of Aerosmith, except it's red, and a few other albums of the sort.

3 Enter Sandman - Metallica

Song: Shepherd of Fire

Not only does it use the same format its almost the same length and its also the first song on the album.

4 Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth

Song: Heretic

The riff is ripped off and extremley obvious

A7X weren't the only ones who ripped off this song Ghost did it as well with Ritual.

5 The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
6 Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Song: Hail to the King

Not exactly the same song but Hail To the King uses very simular format

Mainly The intro riff, the vocal melody

7 Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

Song: Requiem

The riff sounds like they took Kashmir and "cored" it to fit their sound how ironic A7X ripped off a Led Zeppelin song a band known for ripping off songs.

8 November Rain - Guns N' Roses
9 It's So Easy - Guns N' Roses
10 Chaly (Overkill)

Neither Overkill or A7X came up with the Deathbat first. Images of bat-winged skulls have existed long before both bands have (the oldest known Deathbat is a sculpture of a bat-winged skull over a doorway in the Durham Cathedral).

Yes. And very similar logo

The Contenders
11 Right Next Door to Hell - Guns N' Roses
12 Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
13 Greatest Hits - Aerosmith
14 Led Zeppelin I - Led Zeppelin

You may ask how did A7X rip this off? well they ripped of the idea of taking other peoples songs and claiming their your own and only creating one original song
although at least in A7X's,case they wrote new lyrics and changed a few things.

15 Bad Obsession - Guns N' Roses
16 Angry Again - Megadeth
17 Back Off Bitch - Guns N' Roses
18 Secrets - Hammerfall
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